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Jane Vella To Speak at CORE Group Spring Meeting
The CORE Group is pleased to announce that Jane Vella, founder of Global Learning Partners and pioneering adult education specialist, will be the keynote speaker at the CORE Spring Meeting, scheduled for April 24-28, 2006, in Easton, MD. Dr. Vella will lead meeting participants in a three-hour learning session on "The Faces and Facets of Quality." For more on Dr. Vella, visit the Global Learning Partners web site.
To register for the CORE Spring Meeting or to view an updated meeting agenda, visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
CORE Group Participates in LAC Neonatal Workshop
Representatives from CORE's Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, and IMCI Working Groups led a CORE member delegation at a February 21-23, 2006, Latin American/Caribbean Neonatal Regional Strategy Workshop, held in Antigua, Guatemala. Participants discussed revisions to a draft regional strategy for newborn health and developed draft plans to adapt the strategy in individual countries. The revised strategy will be presented to PAHO member states for endorsement in coming months.
The workshop was hosted by USAID, the Pan American Health Organization, BASICS, ACCESS,
CORE Group, and UNICEF. For more information, contact Lynette Walker, Deputy Director, CORE Group at contact@coregroup.org
CORE Group Offers Operations Research Seminar
On Monday, May 8, the CORE Group will offer a half-day seminar titled "Solving MCH Program Problems through Operations Research." Jim Foreit of the Population Council will present an overview of the importance of operations research in solving program implementation problems and lead a discussion on steps used to identify program issues and to formulate an Operations Research question. Examples of successful NGO operations research projects will be presented.
The seminar will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at the World Vision offices in
Washington, D.C. It is open to child survival, infectious disease or reproductive health technical staff who manage an RH/child survival/ID project and who may at some time oversee Operations Research.
To register, visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
Online Learning Session Addresses MNC in Post-Conflict Setting
Mary Ann Mercer, Deputy Director of Health Alliance International, will present a CORE online learning session to discuss maternal/newborn care program challenges HAI has faced in Timor-Leste (East Timor). Timor-Leste became an independent nation in May 2002. Under 24 years of Indonesian rule, the country suffered widespread human rights violations that contributed to the deaths of nearly one-third of the population. Following the vote for independence, the Indonesian military and paramilitary forces destroyed as much as 70-80 percent of the nation's infrastructure, leaving this new country with the daunting task of rebuilding an entire infrastructure, including the health system.
The session will be offered online on March 29, 2006, at 1:00 pm Eastern time. To register, please visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
USAID Flex Fund Holds Meeting on Family Planning Strategies
USAID's Flex Fund will host a May 16, 2006, meeting on "Community-Based Family Planning: Strategies and Approaches." Meeting objectives are: 1) To share lessons learned and promising practices from Flex Fund Projects and other community-based family planning programs through panels and presentations; 2) To generate discussion among participants on ways to apply lessons from these projects to other community-based family planning programs; and 3) To discuss potential operations research topics to improve outcomes of community-based family planning programs.
The meeting will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Registration is open to all interested parties. To register, visit the link below.
CORE Meeting Registration
Rx for Survival-Global Heroes Airs April 12
On Wednesday, April 12, PBS stations nationwide will air a 2-hour special titled Rx for Survival-Global Health Heroes, which will feature stories of "unsung champions" working in global health. The special is an abridged version of the six-hour Rx for Survival-A Global Health Challenge documentary series that aired in November 2005. The CORE Group is a national outreach partner in the social impact campaign attached to the series, Rx for Child Survival-A Global Health Challenge.
For more information on the Rx for Survival special, series or social impact campaign, visit the link below.
Rx for Survival-A Global Health Challenge
John Cox Joins CORE Polio Eradication Initiative
The CORE Group is pleased to announce the appointment of John Cox as Director of the CORE Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI). The PEI is a unique cooperative agreement with USAID supporting CORE members to participate in polio surveillance and related activities in Angola, Ethiopia, India and Nepal. World Vision serves as the project's prime organization; the position of project director is a CARE employee based in Atlanta.
Dr. Cox comes to his new position with 38 years of experience in Asia and Africa, primarily with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has been part of two STOP teams (short-term assignments in polio surveillance done through the World Health Organization) in Ghana in 2001 and the Philippines in 2005.
CORE Polio Eradication Initiative
LQAS Online Series Continues
The CORE Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group's six-part online learning series on the use of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) for monitoring and evaluation continues with live Q&A sessions March 28 and April 5 at 10:00 AM EST. Throughout the series, lectures targeted to implementers of child survival/maternal and child health programs have been posted on the CORE Group web site for universal access. Each lecture is followed by a live Q&A session to answer specific follow-up questions. For more information, click on link below.
LQAS Series Overview
CORE Group Holds Regional TB Workshop in India
On February 20-24, 2006, CORE's Tuberculosis Working Group hosted an Asia/Near East regional workshop on tuberculosis control for PVO/NGO program managers in Chennai, India. Twenty-one NGO field staff participated in field visits, technical updates and a program design project. A workshop report and facilitator's guide will be available on the CORE Group web site in April.
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Progress Toward Results: A Report for the Child Survival and Health Grants Program (USAID):
This report presents the USAID Child Survival and Health Program's new results framework and describes progress toward the results of improved health status of vulnerable target populations, increased scale of health interventions, and contributions to global capacity and leadership for child survival and health interventions. It highlights important strategic directions for the Child Survival and Health Grants Program, and draws from accomplishments of child survival and health grants that ended between September 2004 and March 2005, contributions of the CORE Group, and activities of the CSTS+ project.
Report
Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria (World Health Organization):
These global, evidence-based guidelines help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria. Information is presented on the treatment of: 1) uncomplicated malaria, including disease in special groups (young children, pregnant women, people who are HIV-positive, travellers from non-malaria endemic regions) and in epidemics and complex emergency situations; and 2) severe malaria.
Guidelines
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