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CORE News:
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Featured Resource:
Millennium Development Goals
Elluminate Session on HIV and Infant Feeding Offered
On September 8, the CORE Group will offer an online Elluminate presentation on what we know and don't know about infant feeding within the context of PMTCT. PATH's Ted Greiner will examine the evidence base regarding the infant feeding component of PMTCT programs and suggest the existing research is of doubtful relevance to most settings in Africa, where most of the world's maternal-to-child transmission takes place.
Participants can log in to Elluminate from anywhere in the world. For more information on the Elluminate system and/or to sign up for this session, please visit CORE's meeting registration page:
Meeting registration page
PD/Hearth Addendum Released
The CORE Group is pleased to announce the release of a 12-page "Positive Deviance/Hearth Addendum," a 2005 follow-up to the Positive Deviance/Hearth Manual published in 2003. The addendum discusses how Positive Deviance/Hearth interacts with other nutrition and child health interventions, provides essential elements for implementation of an effective Positive Deviance/Hearth program, and guides the reader to resources for further information.
Positive Deviance Hearth Addendum
CORE Fall Meeting Agenda Set
Visit the CORE Group's Fall Meeting registration page to learn more about what we have planned for September 12-13. The agenda includes an exercise on bundling proposals, a mini-workshop on health systems strengthening by Henry Mosley and Ben Lozare of Johns Hopkins University, and Working Group planning time.
Meeting registration page
New Working Group + Polio Project Web Pages Posted
The CORE Group continues to revamp its web site with redesigned pages for the Polio Partners Project, the Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Working Group, and the Social and Behavioral Change Working Group. The Polio Partners Project page includes information on the secretariat model and the latest narrative report covering the first half of 2005. Redesigned CORE Working Group pages streamline access to tools, resources, reports, and useful links, and provide timely information on Working Group activities.
Polio Partners Project Page
SMRH Working Group Page
SBC Working Group Page
Epi-Info Training Exercises Available
Thirteen exercises included in the CORE Group 's April 2005 Epi-Info Workshop in Kampala, Uganda, are now available on the CORE Group site. Exercises cover topics including creating a questionnaire, entering data and checking code, and creating reports.
Epi Info Workshop Page
Elluminate Recordings Posted
If you missed any of the live presentations in the CORE Group's online technical update series, you can now watch recordings of past sessions. To view recordings, your computer must be Elluminate-ready. Visit the CORE Group's Online Learning/Elluminate page to learn more about Elluminate, to download past sessions, and to learn about future events. Topics covered previously include:
- Sustainability in Urban and Post-Conflict Settings
- TB Treatment Incentives
- Community-Based Partnerships & Family Planning
Online Learning/Elluminate page
E-Update Archive Added
Review CORE Group E-Updates from past months for links to event announcements, newly released documents, and more.
E-News Update Archive Page
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Featured Resources: Millennium Development Goals
In advance of the 2005 UN World Summit, to be held in New York September 14-16, this month we highlight two resources related to the Millennium Development Goals:
Who's got the power? Transforming health systems for women and children
This 2005 paper from the Task Force for Child Health and Maternal Health, UN Millennium Project, posits that sustainable progress toward decreasing child and maternal mortality requires an intense focus on improving health systems, particularly at the district level. The authors recommend the rapid and equitable sale-up of child health interventions designed to improve key family practices within the community, with increased emphasis on nutrition and neonatal health; the universal provision of emergency obstetric care with skilled birth attendants at facility and community levels as the backbone of the system; and universal access to reproductive health services.
Who's got the power?
Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Also by the UN Millennium Project, this paper presents an operational framework for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them.
Investing in Development
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