Post 01087e : Child Health Days

POST 01087E : CHILD HEALTH DAYS 2 May 2007 ____________________________________ In an earlier Child Survival Update, Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) wrote : "Recent thinking on disparity reduction has centered around ways of removing systems barriers to access for high impact child survival interventions. One idea which has caught on in recent years is the use of Child Health Days, typically done twice a year to provide a basket of basic services, often including vitamin A, deworming, TT, and child vaccination". The topic had been discussed before on TechNet, in 2005, in the series of postings starting with Post 00740E : Uganda Child Health Days, and Post 00791E : Other interventions with vaccination. The attached document provides direct links to the whole series of postings on these topics. Bob sent an interesting presentation, "Results from the Child Health Days Assessments" presented at the Global Immunization Meeting in New York, by Nita Dalmiya, from UNICEF HQ. This presentation can be downloaded from : http://www.technet21.org/fichiers_Powerpoint/UNICEF-ResultsFromCHDAssessments.ppt (2.1 MB) Some of her main findings are : * Routinely used by many countries esp. in Africa to achieve & sustain high coverage of select child survival interventions. * In Ethiopia, Tanzania & Uganda, CHDs effectively deliver multiple interventions (vit. A, de-worming, immunization). * In Ethiopia & Uganda, CHDs add value to routine immunization services. In the same Update, Bob also wrote : "From WHO/AFRO come the results of the first AFRO Regional attempt to document experiences and best practices in conducting integrated interventions". It is the following "Documentation of experiences in integrating child survival interventions in the African Region", available from the list of WHO documents on the TechNet site, or this direct link : http://www.technet21.org/pdf_file/AFRO-ExperiencesIntegratingChildSurvivalInterventions.pdf ______________________________________________________________________________ All members of the TechNet21 e-Forum are invited to send comments on any posting or to use the forum to raise a new discussion or request technical information in relation to immunization services. The comments made in this forum are the sole responsibility of the writers and do not in any way mean that they are endorsed by any of the organizations and agencies to which the authors may belong. ______________________________________________________________________________ Visit the TECHNET21 Website at http://www.technet21.org You will find instructions to subscribe, a direct access to archives, links to reference documents and other features. ______________________________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message to : mailto:[email protected] Leave the subject area BLANK In the message body, write unsubscribe TECHNET21E ______________________________________________________________________________ The World Health Organization and UNICEF support TechNet21. The TechNet21 e-Forum is a communication/information tool for generation of ideas on how to improve immunization services. It is moderated by Claude Letarte and is hosted in cooperation with the Centre de , Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________ ##text##