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CORE Represented at Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group Meeting
The 7th Meeting of the Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership was held in Abuja, Nigeria, in mid-October, 2006. Mahmooda Khaliq Pahsa of Minnesota International Health Volunteers represented CORE members. Many of the recommendations coming out of the meeting centered on encouraging partnerships between the malaria and reproductive health sectors, including ensuring that malaria is included in national reproductive health strategies, and vice versa. The next working group meeting will be held in Benin April 10-12, 2007.
Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group
Child Survival Health Grants Program Hosts Backstop Institute
The Child Survival Health Grants Program (CSHGP) Backstop Institute is a nine-day event to address priority needs that emerged from grantee and CORE members' needs assessments conducted by CSTS+ and CORE's monitoring and evaluation working group. The institute is targeted to backstop staff and field-based project managers of active CSHGP-supported projects, and will feature two training courses delivered simultaneously: Knowledge, Practice and Coverage (KPC) Training of Survey Trainers (December 4-14) and Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation (December 4-12). Participants in both tracks will take part in plenary sessions on complementary topics like lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS), qualitative methods, and utilizing the Lives Saved methodology. In addition, the new Rapid Health Facilities Assessment tool piloted through CSTS+ in 2006 will be introduced in a one-day workshop for all participants.
CSHGP Backstop Institute
CORE Partner in Uganda Publishes Paper Describing Public/Private Partnerships
The Malaria and Childhood Illness NGO Secretariat (MACIS) in Uganda, a CORE partner, has published a paper describing work they have done to facilitate public/private partnerships. As part of their ongoing effort to bring health services to hard-to-reach communities in Uganda, MACIS brought together the Ugandan Ministry of Health, district health officers, the Kampala Pharmaceutical Industry, and other public and private groups to organize mobile health clinics in Kanungu District. The clinics were very successful, in one case treating over 750 patients in one day. Their paper describes the lessons learned from the experience.
MACIS Public/Private Partnership Paper
Save the Date: Malaria Working Group Presents Indoor Residual Spraying State of the Art Technical Update
The Malaria Working Group will present a state of the art technical update on the issues surrounding indoor residual spraying (IRS) of pesticides on January 9, 2007, from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. Michael Macdonald of USAID and Luis Benavente of MCDI, among others, will discuss when the use of IRS is appropriate, types of IRS programs, examples of roles for PVOs in IRS programs, and partnerships with the private sector. The meeting will be held at the Washington DC office of World Vision, but it will also be accessible online through Elluminate. Watch the CORE CS Community listserve for registration details.
HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Working Groups Present Infant and Young Child Feeding State of the Art Technical Update
The HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Working Groups of CORE will present a State of the Art Technical Update on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission and Infant/Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Options for HIV+ Mothers on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at AED's Greeley Hall in Washington, DC. The event will update participants on the evidence base related to IYCF and HIV transmission, including highlights from the latest WHO technical consultation of October 2006. The LINKAGES Program will present lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities based on their 10 years of experience. Also on the program will be an introduction to the new USAID IYCF contract and a discussion of key programmatic implications for the future. For more information and registration, please check the CORE website.
IYCF SOTA Registration
Recordings of Recent Online Learning Sessions Available
Recordings of all recent Elluminate online learning sessions are available on the CORE website. This includes the very informative session on "Program Responses to Avian Influenza" by Whitney Pyles of CARE on 16 November. If you weren't able to attend this or other recent sessions, please check out the recordings.
Elluminate Online Learning Sessions
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Home and Community-Based Health Care for Mothers and Newborns:
USAID's ACCESS Program has published the Home and Community-Based Health Care for Mothers and Newborns report. The document summarizes activities that promote evidenced-based practices for home and community care of mothers and newborns and includes a guide to integrating these activities into a larger maternal child health program. The ACCESS Program works to expand coverage, access, and use of health services with the aim of making high-quality health services accessible as close to the home as possible.
Home and Community-Based Health Care for Mothers and Newborns
Malaria in Pregnancy Program Implementation Guide:
In an effort to improve effectiveness and efficiency in implementing the new policy guidelines, several agencies have jointed together to develop generic tools for countries to adapt and use as the basis for their specific implementation strategy to address malaria during pregnancy. This resource package provides tools to help implement programs that will reduce malaria during pregnancy and provide effective treatment for pregnant women with malaria. The publishers welcome feedback on the materials.
Malaria in Pregnancy Program Implementation Guide
Opportunities for Africa's Newborns:
This new report, Opportunities for Africa's Newborns, focuses on the more than one million newborns who die every year in Africa-until recently uncounted. A team of 60 authors from nine international organizations working under the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) provides new data from 46 countries, identifying six low-income countries making remarkable progress and opportunities to save newborn lives.
Opportunities for Africa's Newborns
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