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CORE News:
New on the CORE site this month:
Featured Resource on Scale:
Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
India HIV/AIDS Workshop A Success
The CORE Group and Counterpart International last month held a one-week workshop in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India to field test two CORE programming guides on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and HIV/AIDS counseling and testing. The workshop drew 27 NGO participants in addition to representatives from USAID/India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the National AIDS Control Organization, and the Gujarat State AIDS Control Society.
"The National AIDS Control Organization perceived this workshop as extremely timely," said Darshana Vyas of Counterpart International, a workshop facilitator. "NACO plans to use lessons from the workshop to prepare for the third phase of expansion of the national AIDS strategy." Vyas noted that currently, India has 709 HIV/AIDS counseling and testing centers for a population of more than 1 billion people.
The workshop received widespread media coverage in outlets including Voice of America, Divya Bhaskar, Indian Express, Asian Age, and ETV Gujarati. Local NGO participants have established a web site to promote further collaboration on HIV/AIDS programming.
Workshop Summary
KPC TOST Offered For Second Year in Uganda
A KPC TOST (Knowledge, Practice and Coverage Training of Survey Trainers) course will be offered for a second time in Kampala, Uganda, from August 8-19, 2005. This course is sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development in partnership with CORE, CSTS+, Africare and Makerere University, and follows the KPC TOST curriculum developed by CORE and tested in Uganda in 2004.
This two-week training course is geared toward PVO program managers and field-based survey personnel who will be involved in training of KPC survey teams. This training is also beneficial for people who design KPC surveys or backstop field staff who implement these surveys.
Only 22 seats are available. Registration is open to CORE members beginning June 17, 2005. Registration will open to the broader child survival community on June 24, 2005.
Workshop Description
CORE Fall Meeting Dates Set
CORE's annual Fall Membership Meeting will be held September 12-13, 2005 at the Hotel Washington, located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street, NW in Washington, DC. Registration for the meeting will open in mid-July. Please visit the CORE web site next month for more information.
Working Group Web Page Redesign
CORE recently posted four redesigned web pages, for the HIV/AIDS, Malaria, M&E, and Tuberculosis Working Groups. CORE continues to update these pages to streamline access to tools, resources, reports, and useful links, and provide timely information on Working Group activities.
CRS Framework: Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies
From 1999 to 2004, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Honduras implemented a safe motherhood program aimed at decreasing maternal and neonatal mortality in rural settings with limited access to care by strengthening the management skills of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). CORE provided support to CRS to disseminate several products arising from the project. These products, available in English and Spanish, include a TBA manual; a training plan for TBAs and maternal health aides; and facilitator's guides for training TBAs and community emergency transport committees.
CRS diffusion page
French BEHAVE Workshop Guide
CORE and AED have developed a 5-day BEHAVE workshop guide to build NGO staff skills for strategic project planning for maternal and child health. The guide, now available in French, helps participants learn to manage the four decisions in the BEHAVE Framework: 1) Priority and supporting groups; 2) Behavior; 3) Key Factors; and 4) Activities. The French guide (includes Facilitator's Guide and Participant Binder) is available in electronic format only.
BEHAVE Guide
Project Hope TB Case Studies
These Project Hope/CORE case studies examine how Project Hope used food supplements as an incentive to complete TB therapy in Tajikistan, and lessons from implementing DOTS in a prison system in Kazakhstan.
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Featured Resource on "Scale"
Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
This book by the Center for Global Development presents 17 cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries have succeeded in the last 50 years-- saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities.
From the eradication of polio in Latin America, to the elimination of measles in southern Africa, to HIV prevention in Thailand, the cases provide evidence that large-scale success in health is possible. The book provides policy-relevant information about how major successes can be achieved in the future, and contends that global health challenges are solvable. Go to: http://www.cgdev.org/publications/MillionsSaved/
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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/.
The CORE Group encourages electronic dissemination of its publications. A limited number of hard copies and/or CDs are available for select publications. For inquiries, e-mail Deborah Sitrin at the CORE Group: dsitrin@worldvision.org
The CORE Group, a membership association of international nongovernmental organizations registered in the United States, promotes and improves the health and well being of children and women in developing countries through collaborative NGO action and learning. Visit us at www.coregroup.org.
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