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Health Policy and Planning: Feeding Practices in Under-Two Children
CORE Welcomes Three New Members
At the September 12-13 CORE Group Fall Meeting, members approved three new organizations for CORE membership:
EngenderHealth
www.engenderhealth.org
Based in New York City, EngenderHealth is a 501 c 3 membership organization that works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. The organization provides technical assistance, training and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scare.
EngenderHealth has three primary departments: family planning, maternal health care and HIV/AIDS. Its Maternity Care program is dedicated to reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality with a focus on pregnancy-related care: preventing women from dying in childbirth and preventing devastating consequences of injuries women and children experience during and directly after childbirth. Recent foci include Emergency Obstetric Care, including prevention of postpartum hemorrhage, PAC, obstetric fistula, PMTCT for HIV/AIDS, pain management, and work with vulnerable populations including adolescents and refugees.
Midwives for Midwives
www.midwivesformidwives.org
Midwives for Midwives (MFM), a small 501 c 3 organization founded in 1991, is based in Catskill, NY. MFM started and supports a Guatemalan non-profit association called Ixmucane Association located in Antigua, Guatemala. MFM's mission is to strengthen the capacity of indigenous midwives to identify and meet the needs of the communities they serve.
The organization's strategy is to: 1) identify and preserve safe and effective traditional methods of birthing and health care; 2) provide training, support and the means for professional organization to traditional midwives; and 3) demonstrate humane, respectful and quality women's health care from a midwifery model used in the Guatemalan clinic. MFM's clinic serves as a site to several North American midwifery programs preparing more midwives and providing an opportunity to gain international experience.
World Neighbors
www.wn.org
World Neighbors is an international development agency based in Oklahoma City, OK. Founded in 1951, World Neighbors currently works in 16 countries to address hunger, disease, and poverty. The organization responds to local needs, making a 10-year commitment to communities, to focus on sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods, community-based natural resource management, and community and reproductive health. Health priorities include nutrition, food security, environmental control, and HIV/AIDS (especially care and support).
CORE Members Respond to Hurricane Katrina
At least 14 CORE Group member organizations are assisting in relief efforts on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
"It is true that we are globally focused, but the US is part of that global community," said Janine Schooley, Vice President for Technical Services and Program Development, Project Concern International. "The question is really not 'Why should we get involved?', but rather 'How can we possibly not respond to those in such desperate need, to our own "tsunami", right here at home?'"
To donate or learn more about NGO efforts to respond to this disaster, click on any of the following links:
HAI, CORE Publish TB/HIV Case Study
A Health Alliance International/CORE Group case study titled, "Integrating TB and HIV Care in Mozambique: Lessons from an HIV Clinic in Beira" is now available on the CORE web site. The study discusses HAI's work with the Mozambican Ministry of Health in 2003-2004 to develop an integrated strategy for TB diagnosis and treatment among HIV-positive patients.
Case Study
State Department E-Journal Features Rwanda Anti-Malarials Pilot Project
The U.S. State Department's August 2005 E-Journal includes an article on the CORE Group-supported pilot anti-malarials project in Rwanda, a joint effort by World Relief, Concern Worldwide and International Rescue Committee. The issue's theme is "International Development Goals: Moving Forward," with a lead article by USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios.
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CORE Fall Meeting Report Posted
Presentations from the 2005 CORE Group Fall Meeting, including Henry Mosley's mini-workshop on "Strategic Leadership for Health Systems Change" and Dennis Carroll's presentation on Avian Flu, are now available on the CORE web site.
Meeting Report
HIV and Infant Feeding Elluminate Session Posted
On September 8, Ted Greiner of PATH presented an Elluminate session on infant feeding within the context of PMTCT. He discussed the evidence base regarding the infant feeding component of PMTCT programs and suggested that existing research is of doubtful relevance to most settings in Africa, where most of the world's maternal-to-child transmission is taking place. To access the session recording and slides, click on link below.
Session Recording
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Featured Resource: Feeding Practices in Under-Two Children
An article titled "Use of multiple opportunities for improving feeding practices in under-twos within child health programmes" by Nita Bhandari et al. is featured in the September 2005 issue of Health Policy and Planning. The article focuses on the importance of multiple channels for nutrition messaging to achieve behavioral change, and "establishes justification for introducing counseling to improve breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices within existing child health and nutrition programmes."
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The CORE Group, a membership association of 40 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. For inquiries, contact Deborah Sitrin/CORE Group at: dsitrin@worldvision.org.
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