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CORE Group Fall Meeting to Focus on Trends in Child Health and Infectious Disease
CORE Group's Fall Meeting will take place October 5 and 6, 2006, at the Hotel Washington in Washington DC. CORE members and partners will gather to discuss trends affecting child survival work, as well as current issues in infectious diseases. There will also be working group planning time. Please check the link below for registration and a draft agenda.
CORE Group Fall Meeting Registration
Operations Research for Managers Workshop Announced
CORE and the Population Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program will conduct a workshop on operations research (OR) for managers in Washington DC October 10-11. Operations research is the use of systematic research techniques to improve services delivery and help managers make programmatic decisions. The goal of the workshop is to assist program decision-makers and managers to play an active role in guiding programmatic research. Space is limited to 25 participants. Please check the link below for registration and further information.
Operations Research for Managers Workshop Registration
New Advocacy Program Launched to Promote Global Action on Malaria
CORE, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, and the Malaria Consortium have launched the VOICES for a Malaria-Free Future project to educate policymakers about effective programs and strategies for malaria control. CORE is working in Mali with Groupe Pivot, a well-established national NGO umbrella group, and in Kenya with the Kenya NGO Alliance Against Malaria (KeNAAM) to promote progress made against malaria while also breaking down policy barriers that hamper effective prevention and control.
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CORE Holds Online Learning Session on Bolivia Community Case Management
On August 31 at 2pm EST, Caroline de Hilari of Save the Children will discuss community case management efforts in Bolivia focused on community pharmacies. To register for the session, please click on the link below. A recording of the session will be posted on the CORE web site the following week.
Upcoming online learning sessions for September include "Africa Forum: The Dual Epidemics of HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity" with Janine Schooley and Gwen O'Donnell of PCI on September 7 at 2pm EST and "Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage Survey: Measuring the New Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators" with Kristen Cashin and Megan Deitchler of the FANTA Project on September 28 at 3pm EST.
CORE Online Learning Calendar
La Leche League International Honored at 50th Anniversary Celebration
On August 20, CORE Group presented La Leche League International with a plaque marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the organization. At a commemorative picnic in Elmhurst, IL, CORE Executive Director Karen LeBan thanked the founders of LLLI for their contribution to global maternal and child health through the support of breastfeeding.
Joint NGO Implementation of Community-Based Treatment of Malaria in Rwanda Report Posted
CORE has posted the latest in its series of group country collaboration model reports, entitled Joint NGO Implementation of Community-Based Treatment of Malaria in Rwanda. The report documents the way in which three major NGO partners and multiple donor partners worked together to pilot-test a program to improve the ability of community health workers to provide anti-malarial treatment for uncomplicated malaria in rural community settings.
Community-Based Treatment of Malaria in Rwanda
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Progress in Scaling up Access to HIV Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries:
As part of the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the WHO has released a fact sheet outlining current data on numbers of patients having access to HIV treatment in the developing world. It includes tables showing estimated numbers and percentages of all patients receiving treatment, and showing the percent of those patients who are children.
WHO HIV Treatment Fact Sheet
Where Women Have No Doctor:
Hesperian Foundation's 2006 edition of Where Women Have No Doctor is now available online. Developed with community-based groups and medical experts from over 30 countries, the 2006 edition features new and updated information on HIV/AIDS, including the use of antiretrovirals and preventing mother-to-child transmission, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, family planning, TB, care for women who have had after abortions, and medicines.
Where Women Have No Doctor
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