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

Community-Based Malaria Treatment and Prevention: Project Palu-Alafia

Date

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Summary

Carla Brown-Ndiaye the Country Representative for Catholic Relief Services, based in Benin West Africa presented on the Palu-Alafia project a community-based malaria treatment and prevention program March 15, 2011. Since 2008 Catholic Relief Services has been the Prime Recipient for a Global Fund funded Malaria treatment and prevention program in Benin. CRS, in partnership with Africare, MCDI, the National Caritas ...Read More

Community Case Management: Overview

Date

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Summary

David Marsh, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor for Child Survival at Save the Children USA provides an overview of community case management, which includes related rationale, the definition and description, global momentum and challenges gleaning from his work with Save the Children. Presentation: April 26, 2011Read More

CHW Programming Timed and Targeted Counseling

Date

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Summary

Michele Gaudrault, WV International Health Team Capacity Building Coordinator, presented World Vision International’s CHW Programming Timed and Targeted Counseling approach and materials Feb. 24, 2011. A behavior change approach, ttC targets a cohort of pregnant women and young children under 24 months using story-based dialogue and household handbooks derived from WHO/UNICEF and ACNM.  The approach addresses integrated health and nutrition ...Read More

Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community: A Training Package for Community Health Workers

Date

Monday, November 29, 2010

Summary

Cathy Wolfheim, from the Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Development Department, presented on the new WHO CHW training materials Nov. 29, 2010.  WHO recently completed an extensive package of training materials to support training CHWs to care for the sick child in the community. The package includes a manual for the CHW, facilitator notes, sick child recording form, ...Read More

Exploring Evidence for Disrespect and Abuse in Facility-Based Childbirth

Date

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Summary

Diana Bowser, Sc.D., M.P.H., a Research Specialist from the Harvard School of Public Health, presented this landscape analysis of the evidence around disrespect and abuse in facility-based childbirth Nov. 17, 2010. The report reviews the evidence in published and gray literature with regard to the definition, scope, contributors, and impact of disrespect and abuse in childbirth, promising intervention approaches, and ...Read More

Fertility Awareness Methods – Two Approaches

Date

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Summary

Jeannette Cachan, Director of Capacity Building and IEC at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health, presented two fertility awareness methods (FAM) including the Standard Days Method (SDM) and the Two Day Method (TDM) on Aug. 18, 2010. FAM is a cornerstone to women’s empowerment in that it allows a woman to control her own fertility, learning about these methods is ...Read More

Taking HIV Prevention to Scale – The Mukta Project

Date

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Summary

Darshana Vyas, Project Director of Pathfinder International’s Mukta Project, presented May 26, 2010 on the lessons learned from the first phase of the Mukta Project in India. The Project covers 10 districts in the state of Maharashtra in India to reduce the prevalence of STIs and HIV/AIDS among female sex workers (FSWs), men who have sex with men (MSM), and ...Read More