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CORE Group Welcomes Four New Member Organizations
In early February, the CORE Group elected four new NGO members:
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
www.crwrc.org
Based in Grand Rapids, MI, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) is a relief, development, and educational ministry working in more than 30 countries. CRWRC, partnering with local organizations, offers trainings to equip local leaders with essential skills in a variety of sectors, including health. CRWRC staff have been actively involved in CORE's Social and Behavioral Change working group and plan to become more involved in nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and IMCI.
Global Health Action
www.globalhealthaction.org
Global Health Action (GHA), headquartered in Decatur, GA, designs and delivers customized training programs in leadership, management and project planning for health professionals and community leaders. GHA implements projects addressing HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood, and child survival, and currently manages a USAID-funded child survival project in Haiti. GHA proposes to become involved in CORE's HIV/AIDS, M&E, Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, and Social and Behavioral Change working groups.
Haitian Health Foundation
www.haitianhealthfoundation.org
Haitian Health Foundation (HHF) is a development organization that serves the poorest of the poor in Haiti, primarily near the city of Jeremie. HHF emphasizes child survival and maternal health in its public health outreach programs, and improves the health of women and children through an outpatient facility and a Maternal Waiting Home for women with high-risk pregnancies. One of HHF's current projects is the development of a manual for community-based ARI programming for Francophone countries. HHF staff are involved in CORE's Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health working group and are interested in participating in the IMCI and M&E working groups.
Northwest Medical Teams International
www.nwmedicalteams.org
Northwest Medical Teams (NWMT) sends volunteer rapid response teams to offer medical care and supplies in some of the worst crisis areas of the world. NWMT deploys teams of volunteers to support community health programs and offers expert training for licensed health care providers and community health workers. Its community health programs are located in El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Liberia. NWMT staff propose to work with CORE's HIV/AIDS, Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, and M&E working groups.
CORE Group Supports National Malaria Workshop in Ethiopia
With support from the CORE Group, Ethiopia's Christian Relief and Development Association will host a National Malaria Coordination Workshop, March 14-17 in Addis Ababa. The workshop will bring together NGO, government and private sector actors to share program and policy information and strategize to reduce the incidence and impact of malaria in Ethiopia. For more information, contact the workshop coordinator at: malaria@ethionet.et
SMRH Working Group Holds "Contraceptive Technology" Update
CORE's Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Working Group will host a March 14 technical update titled "Contraceptive Technology: What's New Out There and What Are the Implications?" Jim Shelton, USAID, and Roy Jacobstein, EngenderHealth, will make presentations. The session will be held from 12:00 to 1:30 pm at The Futures Group offices in Washington, DC. To RSVP, contact Betsy McCallon at bmccallon@whiteribbonalliance.org.
CORE Group Members Present at Mombasa IMCI Meeting
CORE Group members Plan International and World Relief will present experiences in programming for community-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI) in Cameroon and Mozambique, respectively, at a late February UNICEF/ESARO C-IMCI review meeting in Mombasa, Kenya. UNICEF will share results from its review of C-IMCI programs in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, and participants will discuss input into a Child Survival Strategy for Africa. For more information, contact Lynette Walker/CORE Group at contact@coregroup.org
World Relief, CORE Host Mozambique "Care Groups" Workshop
World Relief and the CORE Group will co-host a field-based workshop in Mozambique on World Relief's care group model for volunteer, community-based health educators. The workshop will be held March 13-16 in Chokwe, Gaza Province, Mozambique. It is intended for program managers just starting or planning to use care groups in their own project. For more information, click on registration link below. For more information on the care group model, see The Care Group Difference: A Guide to Mobilizing Community-Based Volunteer Health Educators
CORE Workshop Registration
CORE Group Spring Meeting Registration Opens
Registration is now open for the CORE Group Spring Meeting, scheduled for April 24-28, 2006, in Easton, MD. CORE members and partners will gather to discuss methodologies and strategies for improving quality of global child health programs; exchange technical information; and explore partnerships across organizations. Register before March 15 to receive "early bird" registration rates.
CORE Workshop Registration
LQAS Online Series Continues
The CORE Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group's online learning series on the use of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) for monitoring and evaluation continues through early April. Lectures, targeted to implementers of child survival/maternal and child health programs, are posted each week on the CORE Group web site for universal access. Each lecture is followed by a live, online session to answer specific questions on the pre-recorded lectures. For more information, click on link below.
LQAS Series Overview
CORE Group Releases Annual Report
The CORE Group's 2005 Annual Report summarizes the year's accomplishments in promoting in-country collaboration among NGO members; promoting community health approaches for maternal, newborn and child health; and identifying and disseminating NGO-tested innovations and local experiences. The report also includes an audited financial statement, a summary of communications and research tools, and an overview of CORE's participation in the 2005-06 PBS Rx for Child Survival -A Global Health Challenge social impact campaign.
2005 Annual Report
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Challenges in the concurrent management of malaria and HIV in pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa:
In a recent issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Paula Brentlinger, Christopher Behrens and Mark Micek review existing policies regarding prevention and treatment of HIV and malaria in pregnancy, as well as published literature on adverse effects of antiretrovirals and antimalarials commonly used in pregnancy in developing countries. They find that concurrent prescription of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, co-trimoxazole, and antiretroviral agents including nevirapine and zidovudine, per existing protocols for prevention of malaria and vertical HIV transmission, may result in adverse drug interactions or overlapping, diagnostically challenging drug toxicities.
Article (registration required)
Bringing Care Closer to Mothers and Newborns: Using the Gap Analysis Tool to Develop a Household to Hospital Continuum of Care:
This paper explains how Save the Children developed a "Gap Analysis Tool" and applied it in five countries, including Guinea and Afghanistan, to strengthen maternal and newborn care at the household and community level.
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Strengthening Family Planning Policies and Programs in Developing Countries: An Advocacy Toolkit:
This USAID/Policy Project toolkit assists advocates in the family planning/reproductive health field in their efforts to promote policy dialogue on the health, social and economic benefits of increasing access to family planning services. The document highlights country experiences that led to policy change.
Toolkit
Share your materials with NGOs around the world: CORE's Child Health and Development Database houses more than 400 NGO tools, documents and materials in child health and development. Materials submission instructions are available in English, French and Spanish. Please visit www.coregroup.org/database/.
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nongovernmental organizations, promotes and improves the health and well
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