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CORE Group Convenes Annual Spring Meeting
The CORE Group will hold its annual Spring Membership Meeting April 24-28, 2006, in Easton, Maryland. CORE members and partners will discuss methodologies and strategies for improving quality of global child health programs; exchange technical information; and explore partnerships across organizations. Meeting presentations will be posted on the CORE Group web site in May. For an updated agenda, visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
CORE Group Releases Bolivia Neonatal Health Field Story
CORE's latest "story from the field" examines the contribution of four NGOs to introducing an essential newborn care package in Bolivia between 2003 and 2005, under the Saving Newborn Lives initiative. NGOs developed different methodologies to identify pregnant women and newborns, to engage the community in acknowledging reasons why mothers and babies get sick or die, and to carry out action plans involving community health workers and municipal authorities. NGO partners also facilitated a dialogue between rural and poor communities and the health care facilities serving them through a methodology called Calidad y Calidez, adapted from Save the Children's partnership-defined quality model.
Field Story
TB Course Facilitator's Manual Available
A Facilitator's Manual for a five-day course titled, "Tuberculosis Control Programming for PVOs"
is now available on the CORE Group web site. Developed by CORE's Tuberculosis Working Group, the course prepares NGO and partner staff to implement high-quality tuberculosis control programming, and includes guidance on diagnosis, case finding, drug supply, information analysis and use, working with partners, communication issues, incentives and enablers, private - public sector systems, and TB co-infection with HIV.
Facilitator's Manual
Operations Research Seminar Offered in May
On Monday, May 8, the CORE Group will offer a two-hour seminar titled "Solving MCH Program Problems through Operations Research." Jim Foreit of the Population Council will present an overview of the importance of operations research in solving program implementation problems and lead a discussion on steps used to identify program issues and to formulate an Operations Research question. Examples of successful NGO operations research projects will be presented.
**Note new time and venue: The seminar will be held from 2:00 to 4:00 pm at the ORC Macro offices in Rockville, MD. It is open to child survival, infectious disease or reproductive health technical staff who manage an RH/child survival/ID project and who may at some time oversee Operations Research.
To register, or for directions to venue, visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
"MNC in Post-Conflict Settings" Presentation Posted
On March 29, Mary Ann Mercer, Deputy Director of Health Alliance International, presented a CORE Group online learning session on maternal/newborn care program challenges in Timor-Leste (East Timor). A session recording is available at the link below.
CORE Online Learning Sessions
USAID Flex Fund Holds Meeting on Family Planning Strategies
USAID's Flex Fund will host a May 16, 2006, meeting on "Community-Based Family Planning: Strategies and Approaches." Meeting objectives are: 1) To share lessons learned and promising practices from Flex Fund Projects and other community-based family planning programs through panels and presentations; 2) To generate discussion among participants on ways to apply lessons from these projects to other community-based family planning programs; and 3) To discuss potential operations research topics to improve outcomes of community-based family planning programs.
The meeting will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Registration is open to all interested parties. To register, visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
Africa Malaria Day Commemorated April 25
The malaria community will mark Africa Malaria Day on April 25 to show solidarity with African countries battling malaria. This year's event will highlight the need to provide universal access to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) and call for these treatments to reach those who need them most. For information about national and global events linked to Africa Malaria Day, please visit the link below.
Roll Back Malaria
Featured Resources:
Reducing under-five mortality through Hopital Albert Schweitzer's
integrated system in Haiti (Health Policy and Planning):
This article written by CORE member Henry Perry and co-authors concludes that a well-developed system of primary health care, with outreach services to the household level and integrated with hospital referral care and community development programs, can make a strong contribution to reducing infant and child mortality in severely impoverished settings.
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Pandemic influenza preparedness and mitigation in refugee and displaced populations: WHO guidelines for humanitarian agencies:
These WHO guidelines provide background information on pandemic influenza, describe WHO pandemic phases and strategies to deal with a pandemic according to phase, and outline preparedness activities needed during the pre-pandemic period. The guidelines also cover appropriate responses during an influenza pandemic.
Guidelines
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