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Fall Meeting Highlights
The CORE Group Fall Meeting will be held Monday, October 1 - Tuesday, October 2 in Washington, DC at the Hotel Washington.
Nils Daulaire, president and CEO of Global Health Council, will present this year's keynote address on Global Health Trends and Directions. Other highlights of the Fall meeting include: a presentation by Jerry and Monique Sternin on Positive Deviance: Beyond Nutrition and a session devoted to community approaches to health. There will also be time devoted for CORE Working Groups to meet.
Meeting Agenda
CORE Group Receives USAID Funding For Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning
CORE Group received funding from USAID to coordinate pandemic preparedness planning efforts in up to five countries (TBD). The $3 million, 2 year effort aims to 1) strengthen the capability of CORE member organizations to minimize human morbidity and mortality due to an influenza pandemic in high-risk, vulnerable areas in which NGOs operate and 2) develop the necessary local partnerships for effective action. In each of the five countries, CORE will host a competitive RFA process to identify a "hosting" organization, preferably a CORE member organization, which would manage the in-country activities.
CORE Safe Motherhood/Reproductive Health (SMRH) Working Group Technical Update
CORE's SMRH Working Group, The White Ribbon Alliance, the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI), and USAID sponsored updates on the latest developments on postpartum hemorrhage prevention. Fernando Althabe, MD, researcher at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Buenos Aires presented on ways to facilitate the adoption of evidenced-based (NIH Global Network Guidelines Trial) birth practices. Deborah Armbruster, CNM, MPH, director Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI) project presented on WHO recommendations on PPH prevention from the October 2006 Technical Consultation.
CORE Activities in Tanzania Contribute to PMI Goals
In 2006 the CORE Group was tasked by the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) to support the Tanzania National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) for one year with a series of activities to be undertaken by U.S and Tanzanian NGOs. These activities were to contribute to the PMI goals of achieving 85% coverage of infants and pregnant women with insecticide-treated nets (ITNs). CORE Group contracted with World Vision Tanzania, PSI Tanzania and the IFAKARA Health Research and Development Centre (IHRDC) to implement activities. As part of the Tanzania National Voucher Scheme (TNVS), a program to enable pregnant women to purchase insecticide treated nets at a subsidized price, World Vision trained approximately 6083 reproductive, child health, and government staff on program implementation and developed radio announcements to advertise the program. PSI procured 300,000 long lasting insecticide treatment kits to be bundled with nets and socially marketed to communities. IHRDC collaborated with CDC to monitor and evaluate ongoing TNVS activities. Training materials and reports are currently being translated from Swahili to English. For more information on PMI activities in Tanzania please visit the PMI website:
www.fightingmalaria.gov
CORE Group Participates in ANE Meeting in Bangkok
CORE Group participated in the recent technical meeting, Scaling-up High Impact Family Planning and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Best Practices: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Near East, held September 3-8, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. Nearly 150 presentations focused on the best available practices in maternal, newborn, and child health. In addition, sessions on fostering change, management strategies and technology addressed practical barriers to expanded health services. Speakers included international and country experts in a diverse range of fields, including representatives from governments, NGOs, USAID, WHO, and UNFPA. Technical presentations from the meeting are available at the Extending Service Delivery (ESD) website:
www.esdproj.org/site/PageServer
Family Planning Handbook Elluminate Archive Now Available
Robert Lande, senior technical writer and Peggy D'Adamo, deputy director of the INFO Project presented Help for service providers: The Global Family Planning Handbook and other products developed by the INFO project on Monday, September 24th. This online session provided an overview of the new handbook and other INFO products, emphasizing tools for service providers. The Elluminate is available for viewing on the CORE Group website:
Session Recording
Support the Global Child Survival Act
The U.S. Coalition for Child Survival continues to meet with Congressional staff about the Global Child Survival Act (H.R. 2266 and S.1418) -which seeks to strengthen the U.S. government's role in saving the lives of children and mothers in poor countries- and is actively talking with Members of Congress about the possibility of a Congressional hearing this fall on the issue of child survival. Please contact your Senators and Representatives to make your voice heard about this issue. A summary of the current legislation and a list of current sponsors can be found online.
More on the Global Child Survival Act
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/.
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nongovernmental organizations, promotes and improves the health and well
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