POST 00740E : UGANDA CHILD HEALTH DAYS

POST 00740E : UGANDA CHILD HEALTH DAYS 10 January 2005 _____________________________________ Robert Davis (mailto:[email protected]) from UNICEF/ESARO in Nairobi, has started a weekly e-mailing of an EPI Technical Update to colleagues mainly in his region. Some of the update would be of wider interest and TechNet will circulate these. The first is a planning document, "IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY For Child Days in May 2004", by the Ugandan Ministry of Health. This is broader in scope than EPI. But Child Days build on the RED approach by adding other interventions to EPI, Vitamin A supplementation among others. EPI emphasis is on measles and TT catch-up efforts, using district microplans for implementation programming. According to Bob, "Uganda has done very impressive things with their Child Health Days". This document may provide inspiration to some other countries. So it has been hosted onto our website in the Country Programme Documents page under Uganda. It can be loaded directly from http://www.technet21.org/UGANDA_ChildHealthDays.doc Please note that a picture on the front page, over 300K by itself, has been deleted to reduce the document size. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 coopération internationale en santé et développement, Québec, Canada (http://www.ccisd.org) ______________________________________________________________________________