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CORE Spring Meeting Report Posted
More than 165 health and development professionals attended CORE's 2006 Spring Membership Meeting, April 24-28 in Easton, MD, to discuss strategies for improving the quality of global child health programs; exchange technical information; and explore partnerships across organizations. A summary report and meeting powerpoint presentations are now available online. A separate web page on quality-related resources has also been added to the CORE site, including several examples of quality improvement checklists. See links below.
Meeting Report
Resources on Quality
Operations Research Workshop Report Posted
Earlier this month, the USAID Office of Population and Reproductive Health PVO/NGO Flexible Fund, the Population Council, the Child Survival Technical Support Program (CSTS+) and the CORE Group sponsored a two-week operations research workshop for NGO staff working in family planning and child health. The Population Council led the training, which focused on steps used to identify program issues and to formulate an operations research question. Headquarters and field staff teams from eight agencies participated, representing nine countries. The workshop report, including handouts and presentations, has been posted on the Flexible Fund web site. See link below.
Workshop Report
CORE Group @ Global Health Council Conference
Several CORE Group members will present on child survival and health activities during the May 30-June 2 Global Health Council Conference in Washington, DC. Members presenting at conference "Roundtable Sessions" include:
- Tom Davis, Food for the Hungry: Behavioral Determinants of Abstinence and Faithfulness for AIDS Prevention (Table 3, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, June 1)
- Nathaly Herrel-Guettier, MIHV: Improving Malaria Case Management in Ugandan Communities (Table 19, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, June 1)
- Luis Benavente, MCDI: Rolling Out Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy on Bioco Island, Equatorial Guinea (Table 17, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, June 1)
The CORE Group will exhibit at the conference. Please stop by Booth 419 to meet CORE staff or to pick up any of CORE's maternal, newborn or child health-related tools or documents.
Conference Site
CORE Welcomes New Board Members
During the CORE Group Spring Membership Meeting in April, CORE members voted in three new Board members: Henry Perry of Future Generations (Vice Chair); Mariana Stephens of CARE (Treasurer) and Will Story of Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (At Large). For a full list of Board members, visit link below.
Board Members
PBS Broadcasts "The Age of AIDS"
PBS FRONTLINE will air a two-part series titled "The Age of AIDS" on May 30 and 31 from 9:00 to 11:00 pm ET (check local listings). Through interviews with researchers, world leaders, activists, and patients, the series investigates the science, politics, and human cost of AIDS on the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed case. For more information, see series web site below.
"The Age of AIDS"
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WHO Child Growth Standards:
In April 2006, the World Health Organization released new Child Growth Standards, developed out of a 9-year intensive study to develop a new international standard for assessing the physical growth, nutritional status and motor development in all children from birth to age five. WHO and its principal partner, the United Nations University, undertook the Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS), a community-based, multi-country project involving more than 8,000 children from Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman, and the United States.
Growth Standards
Management of Sick Children by Community Health Workers: Intervention Models and Programme Examples (UNICEF/WHO):
This paper, written by Peter Winch and Kate Gilroy of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, examines approaches for the community management of sick children, specifically antimicrobial treatment, through the use of community health workers or their equivalent. It is based on an extensive review of literature, including peer-reviewed studies, reports, program descriptions and program evaluations, and interviews with child survival program managers, including CORE Group staff and members.
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Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition (UNICEF):
This report card - the fourth in a UNICEF series that monitors progress for children towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - measures the world's performance on nutrition, taking the prevalence of underweight among children under five as its primary indicator.
Report
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, a membership association of 44 international
nongovernmental organizations, 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. To subscribe to
the CORE Group's monthly e-newsletter, send an e-mail to: e-update@coregroup.org. For inquiries, contact the CORE Group at: contact@coregroup.org.
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