- Collaborators
- LSHTM
- IDRC
- UMSP
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- Background
- Goals
- Accomplishments
- Strengths
- Current Activities
- UMSP Monitoring of antimalarial drug efficacy and safety activities
- Sentinel Site Surveillance for Malaria in Uganda
- Pharmacovigilance of antimalarial drugs in Uganda
- JUMP Integrated Management of Malaria Training
- Building capacity in fever case management using RDT’s
- Building capacity in fever case management by training in microscopy
- The Uganda Tuberculosis Surveillance Project
- Past Activities
- Future Directions
- The Team
- Sentinel sites in Uganda
- Publications
- UMSP Data website
The Joint Uganda Malaria Training Programme (JUMP) is a collaborative training program developed by Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project (UMSP) in partnership with the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI ).
The objectives of JUMP are to
- Establish an exemplary integrated malaria training programme in Uganda.
- Develop a monitoring and evaluation system of the training programme that will allow measurement of outcome and impact.
- Document a model for integrated malaria training that has impact on management and control of malaria.
- Strengthen capacity at health facility level that will impact malaria management based on the policy change to ACT
- Develop effective mechanisms of monitoring and evaluation that will strengthen and expand existing surveillance systems and demonstrate the impact of training and capacity building
JUMP takes an innovative approach to training healthcare professionals in improved malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment, by working directly with entire treatment teams at the health facility level and by building the skill sets of all clinic staff, from medical officers to data entry clerks. JUMP then provides the ongoing support and supervision to ensure the implementation of improved skills and practices, through its Mobile Support Team, which also conducts additional training and collects data to evaluate JUMP’s impact on local health outcomes. The result for the clinic is more effective staff and a more sustainable system of improved malaria care for its patients.
The programme is implemented by the JUMP team under a management committee that comprises members from IDI ,UMSP,AMREF,Malaria Consortium and a steering committee comprising of all major malaria stakeholders in the country. This committee that governs all policy decisions of the programme. A curriculum for an integrated approach to malaria training was developed in collaboration with stakeholders in Uganda and in line with National MoH policies. The program has been successful to date and trained over 200 health workers from over 9 districts in Uganda.