The Alliance for Malaria Prevention Toolkit Version 2.0

Date

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Summary

This webinar provides an overview of the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP) Toolkit Version 2.0. The toolkit is a step-by-step guideline for the planning and implementation of mass LLIN distributions, whether targeted to specific population groups or for universal coverage. It includes information on coordination, planning and budgeting, procurement, logistics, communication, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting results and sustaining gains.The ...Read More

Supply Chain in Community Case Management: Overview of the Common Pitfalls and Potential Solutions

Date

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Summary

Unless health products reach CHWs, CCM can never be successful in reducing childhood mortality. This webinar, organized by the Supply Chain Management Subgroup of the CCM Task Force, was the first in a series of webinars designed to help CCM program managers find ways to overcome the supply chain challenges unique to CHWs. This introductory webinar provided an overview of the ...Read More

M&E of Community Programs

Date

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Summary

Community-based programs are all the rage, from family planning to child survival to care and support for people living with or affected by HIV. More money means more reporting, often using models developed for facility services. What is often overlooked is that the information that community workers need to do their jobs is not the same as what implementers need ...Read More

Overview of Special Supplement to American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on Integrated Community Case Management

Date

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Summary

David R. Marsh, MD, MPH is the Senior Advisor for Child Survival and the Global Team Leader for Community Case Management at Save the Children. He was an editor of the special supplement and currently chairs the global CCM Operations Research Working Group of the CCM Taskforce. In this webinar, Marsh provides a 43-minute overview (1-2 minutes per paper) that ...Read More

Experience from the USAID Better Health Services Project in Cambodia

Date

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Summary

Dr. Suellen Miller, Professor, University of California, San Francisco, the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and Dr. Jerker Liljestrand, Program Leader for Maternal and Newborn Health and Family Planning with the USAID Better Health Services project implemented by URC in Cambodia, presented this webinar/brownbag Introducing the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) and balloon tamponades to low resource settings: Experience from ...Read More

Integration of Care for Child Development in Existing Health Services

Date

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Summary

The Pakistan Early Child Development Scale Up (PEDS) Trial investigated the integration of stimulation, care for development and nutrition in a government community health program in Sindh, Pakistan. The trial has generated evidence on how to reach the most disadvantaged children to promote early learning and equity. Join us for the webinar: Integration of Care for Child Development in Existing Health ...Read More

Improving Malaria Diagnostics (IMaD) Project Highlights

Date

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Summary

Under IMaD, MCDI and its partners have worked to improve laboratory-based diagnosis of malaria (primarily at Ministry of Health facilities), and to increase understanding, acceptance, and correct use of microscopy and Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) by laboratory staff and health care practitioners providing direct care to patients. The use of accurate and timely diagnosis in making treatment decisions is critical ...Read More

Lessons from Rwanda: Improving Maternal and Child Outcomes through Health System Strengthening

Date

Monday, May 14, 2012

Summary

On May 14, 2012, Antoinette (Toni) Habinshuti, Deputy Country Director of Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima (PIH/IMB), presented on the impact that the organization’s successful health system strengthening has had on outcomes in maternal and child health. For the past six years, PIH/IMB has been working in direct partnership with the Rwanda Ministry of Health to strengthen and transform the ...Read More

Tuberculosis Treatment: Successes and Challenges in the Field-An Overview from India

Date

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Summary

In support of the World TB Day 2012 spotlight on Pediatric TB, CORE Group’s Tuberculosis Working Group presented three webinars from world leaders in the fight against pediatric TB.  The final in the series was presented by Dr. Shelly Batra, President of OperationASHA. She spoke about her organization, which is dedicated to bringing tuberculosis treatment and health services to the ...Read More

Childhood TB: A MSF Field Perspective

Date

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Summary

In support of the World TB Day 2012 spotlight on Pediatric TB, CORE Group’s Tuberculosis Working Group presented three webinars from world leaders in the fight against pediatric TB. The second in the series was presented by Dr. Marianne Gale, an Australian medical doctor with background in Public Health. She has been working for the past 5 years with Medecins ...Read More

Pediatric TB: The Basics

Date

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Summary

In support of World TB Day 2012 spotlight on Pediatric TB, CORE Group’s Tuberculosis Working Group presented three webinars from world leaders in the fight against pediatric TB. The first in the series was presented by Dr. Jeffrey Starke, Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine & Director of the Children’s Tuberculosis Clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Starke ...Read More

Mosquito Essentials: Basis for Malaria Prevention

Date

Friday, February 24, 2012

Summary

Much of our work in global health and community development focuses on mosquito-borne diseases as malaria, dengue and lymphatic filariasis. These three diseases in turn depend on the biology and behavior of three genera of mosquito, the Anopheles, Aedes and Culex. There are essential, distinct characteristics of these mosquitoes:  where they breed, when and who they bite, how far they ...Read More

Why Does Diarrhea Matter? Preventing a Million Needless Deaths Per Year

Date

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Summary

Diarrhea claims 1.3 million children’s lives and ails a staggering 2.5 billion children under-five annually, mostly in Africa and South Asia. Gains from the introduction of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) and improved water, sanitation and hygiene are eroding due to lack of attention and inadequate resources at global and country levels. Over the past decade, ORT use declined, preventive efforts ...Read More

Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness Experiences in DRC, Malawi and Senegal

Date

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Summary

The Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) co-hosted with CORE Group a webinar where Dr. Serge Raharison, MCHIP’s Child Health Technical Officer, presented experiences on integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of childhood illnesses from Senegal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Malawi. These countries are implementing national-scale iCCM programs and their respective experiences provide important lessons for the ...Read More

Remuneration and Incentives for Community Health Workers

Date

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Summary

Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide much needed preventive and curative health care in resource-limited settings, and increasingly in high resource settings as well. Optimal incentive and salary schemes vary widely between contexts; however CHW incentives remain a contentious issue as donors and governments consider strategies to improve retention and the quality of their CHW programs, and budget for the most ...Read More

Development of NGO RMNCH Accountability Guidance Note

Date

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Summary

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) decided as of October 2011 to develop a one-stop, easy-to-use guidance note to support national/country NGOs for 2012. The guidance note aims to enhance the alignment of these operational NGOs work to the UN GS strategy on women’s and children’s health, as well as the NGO-relevant recommendations of the Commission on ...Read More

The State of Antimalarial Drug Quality

Date

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Summary

Medicines quality in developing countries continues to remain a major challenge, especially in resource limited settings. Major constraints that hinder adequate regulation of the pharmaceutical market include poor regional cooperation, porous borders, lack of appropriate technology to detect counterfeit and substandard medicines and lack of public awareness and conviction about the dangers of counterfeit and substandard medicines. On Sept. 20, 2011 presenter ...Read More

Scaling Up Standard Days Method

Date

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Summary

Since 2007, the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, has been conducting a five-year prospective, multi-site comparative case study of the process and outcomes of scaling up a new FP method, the Standard Days Method, into public and private health care systems. SDM is being integrated at national or regional levels in five countries (DRC, Guatemala, India, Mali and India). ...Read More

A Guide to Family Planning for CHWs and their Clients

Date

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Summary

This Fuze meeting webinar focused on a new WHO user-friendly family planning guide, which has been updated and aimed at empowering CHWs to provide, refer and counsel women and men on family planning at the community level. The guide could also be used by FP providers in facilities, as well as for religious leaders who may need to be updated ...Read More

The new TB diagnostic technology, Xpert®MTB/RI.

Date

Friday, March 25, 2011

Summary

Finally, progress in tuberculosis diagnostic technology! The current standard in resource-poor settings is sputum smear microscopy—a technology originally developed in the 1880s. Now, the World Health Organization has approved a new rapid test for TB and drug resistance. Co-developed by FIND Diagnostics and other partners, this resource has the potential to make a huge difference for national TB programs, providers, ...Read More