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Annex A: Acronym List
- ACE - Division of Applications Commercialization and Education (within NASA)
- ACTMalaria -Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria
- ADRA - Adventist Development and Relief Agency
- AED - Academy for Educational Development
- AIMI - African Integrated Malaria Initiative
- AMREF - African Medical and Research Foundation
- ANC - Antenatal care
- BASICS - Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival
- BHR - Bureau of Humanitarian Response
- CBO - Community-based Organization
- CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CGPP-PEI - CORE Group Partners Project - Polio Eradication Initiative
- CHW - Community Health Worker
- CORE - Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group
- CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- CRPF - Chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum
- CS - Child Survival
- CSP - Child Survival Projects
- CSTS - Child Survival Technical Support
- CQ - Chloroquine
- DALY - Disability adjusted life years
- DIP - Detailed Implementation Plan
- DOS - Department of State
- DRC - Democratic Republic of Congo
- ECD - Early Childhood Development
- EHA/WHO - Emergency and Humanitarian Action/World Health Organization
- EHP - Environmental Health Project
- EWS - Early Warning System
- GCDC - Goddard Space Flight Center Global Change Data Center
- GIS - Geographical Information System
- HAI - Health Alliance International
- IARA - Islamic African Relief Agency
- ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
- IDP - Internally displaced persons
- IEC - Information, education and communication
- IFRC - International Federation of the Red Cross
- IMCI - Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
- IntRePID - International Research Partnership for Infectious Diseases
- IPT - Intermittent Presumptive Treatment
- IRC - International Rescue Committee
- ITM - Insecticide-Treated Materials
- ITN - Insecticide-Treated Nets
- KPC - Knowledge, Practice, Coverage (Survey)
- LBW - Low birth weight
- MCM - Malaria Case Management
- MOH - Ministry of Health
- MPS - Making Pregnancy Safer
- MSF - Medecins sans Frontieres
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NGO - Non-governmental Organization
- OAU - Organization for African Unity
- ODA - Overseas Development Organization
- OFDA - Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
- OLS - Operation Lifeline Sudan
- OMNI - Organizing Medical Networked Information
- OSFAM - Family Health Options
- PAHO - Pan-American Health Organization
- PATH - Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
- PSI - Population Services International
- PVC - Bureau of Humanitarian Response/Private Volunteer Cooperation
- PVO - Private Voluntary Organization
- RASS - Relief Association of Southern Sudan
- RBM - Roll Back Malaria
- SAWSO - Salvation Army World Service Offices
- SP - Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine
- SPHERE - Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response & Interaction
- SRRA - Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Agency
- TBA - Traditional Birth Attendant
- TDR - Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO)
- UN - United Nations
- UNDAF - United Nations Development Assistance Framework
- UNDP - United Nations Development Program
- UNHCR - United Nations High Commission for Refugees
- UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
- USAID - United States Agency for International Development
- WFP - World Food Programme
- WHO - World Health Organization
- WVRD - World Vision Relief and Development
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