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CORE Group Partners Project Makes Progress Towards Eradicating Polio
The CORE Group Partners Project has released its semi-annual report covering the first two quarters of fiscal year 2007, which outlines the progress that the project is making towards eradicating polio. With activities in Angola, Ethiopia, India, and Nepal, the project is building partnerships, strengthening existing immunization systems, supporting supplemental immunization efforts, helping improve the timeliness of Acute Flacid Paralysis case detection and reporting, providing support to families with paralyzed children, improving documentation and use of information for improving the quality of the polio eradication effort, and participating in either national and/or regional certification activities. Highlights from this reporting period include training all traditional healers and religious leaders in a target district in Ethiopia to conduct community-based surveillance for polio, improving the cold chain to protect vaccines in Angola by insuring health centers have power for refrigeration, and using Eid celebrations in India as an opportunity for polio advocacy. For details, see the report on the CORE Group website.
CGPP Semi-Annual Report
CORE Group Hosts Neglected Tropical Diseases Online Learning Sessions
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent a group of major tropical infections that cause profound disability and economic losses for the world's poorest people, resulting in approximately 500,000 deaths annually. Several NTDs are controllable, and through mass drug administration (MDA) their prevalence has been reduced dramatically in several countries. However, the global control of the seven most prevalent NTDs (ascariasis, trichuriasis, hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, and onchocerciasis) will still require both greater efficiencies in MDA as well as long-term investments in the development of improved control tools.
An important new approach towards realizing the overall control of these seven NTDs relies on the observation that they exhibit extensive geographic overlap, especially in the poorest regions of Africa where afflicted populations are frequently parasitized with multiple NTD pathogens. By administering a package of four drugs and following new preventive treatments, significant reductions in the prevalence, incidence, and morbidity of these NTDs are possible. Because four of these drugs are donated by pharmaceutical companies, this so-called "rapid impact package" for integrated NTD control could be distributed at very low cost ($0.50 per person/per year).
On Wednesday, 15 August at 1:00pm EDT, Kari Stoever of the Sabin Vaccine Institute will present the context of neglected tropical diseases and explore the use of this new rapid impact package.
In addition, recordings of recent online learning presentations on reproductive health in emergency settings in the DRC and safe water treatment at the household level are both available on the online learning archive webpage. Further, a case study referenced during the reproductive health presentation is available at www.care.org/reprohealth.
Elluminate Online Learning
Save the Date for the CORE Group Fall Meeting
CORE Group will hold its annual Fall Membership Meeting Monday and Tuesday, 1-2 October 2007 at the Hotel Washington in Washington, DC. In addition to providing time for working groups to meet, the Fall Meeting will be a chance for CORE Group members to get together and learn more about the state of the art in child survival programming. Watch this space for further information.
WHO Calls for Papers on Childhood Pneumonia
In Spring 2008, the WHO Bulletin will publish a theme issue on childhood pneumonia prevention and control and welcomes submissions of papers on childhood pneumonia for this theme issue. They are particularly interested in research, lessons from the field or perspectives dealing with epidemiology of pneumonia, improved methods for the diagnosis of pneumonia, etiology of pneumonia, the impact on pneumonia mortality of case management, vaccines, and environmental and nutritional interventions. Manuscripts should be submitted to submit.bwho.org by 1 October 2007, respecting the Guidelines for Contributors and accompanied by a cover letter mentioning this call for papers. For more information, visit the website below.
WHO Call for Papers on Childhood Pneumonia
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Learning From the Community to Improve Maternal-Child Health and Nutrition: The Positive Deviance/Hearth Approach:
CORE Group board member Janine Schooley and consultant Linda Morales co-authored this paper for the July/August 2007 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. This article presents the results of a literature review designed to gather information on the role of the Positive Deviance/Hearth methodology in social and behavior change. It provides examples of how the methodology has been applied beyond infant and child malnutrition to address other health areas, such as improving pregnancy outcomes. Another paper on the PD approach, co-authored by Spring Meeting 2007 keynote speaker Arvind Singhal, outlines how a positive deviance process was used to improve facility safety in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area hospitals.
Learning From the Community to Improve Maternal-Child Health and Nutrition: The Positive Deviance/Hearth Approach
"When the Task is Accomplished, Can We Say We did it Ourselves?": A Quest to Eliminate MRSA at the Veterans Health Administration's Hospitals in Pittsburgh
Preventing Malaria in Pregnancy through Focused Antenatal Care: Working with Faith-Based Organizations in Uganda:
This document describes the experiences of USAID's ACCESS project in implementing focused antenatal care and malaria in pregnancy interventions through faith-based organizations in Uganda, including the background of the program and its activities, key principles that contributed to the program's success, and relevant findings. Program managers can use the technical brief as guidance to scaling up similar activities while incorporating FBO organizational networks.
Preventing Malaria in Pregnancy through Focused Antenatal Care: Working with Faith-Based Organizations in Uganda
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