Events
Upcoming Events
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Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness cross-country results: Improving Access to Tools that Detect Severe Illness
When sick children arrive at primary health care facilities, it is critical that they are appropriately screened, diagnosed, managed, and if needed, referred for urgent care without delay. Clinical signs alone do not detect all severe illness in children. For health care providers to make a correct diagnosis, they must be equipped with the right tools, including access to pulse oximetry and clinical decision support systems.
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Risk-differentiated care: A paradigm shift to improve child mortality
WHO has recently completed analyses that show how infants and young children at high risk of mortality can be identified through 4 readily assessable, child-level characteristics. This offers opportunities to identify and provide targeted care to infants and young children at high risk of mortality; it may also help rationalize interventions for children who are at low risk of mortality.
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Climate Change and Health Forum
According to the Children’s Climate Risk Index, climate change is already significantly affecting children globally, with approximately 1 billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of experiencing the negative impacts of climate change.
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Re-Imagining Child Health Through Primary Health Care: A Series
Join the Child Health Task Force’s Re-imagining the Package of Care for Children subgroup, WHO, and Global Communities for a series in which we will discuss key strategies, challenges, and innovations in delivering integrated child-centered health services to children within the primary health care (PHC) framework.
Past Events
- | Accra, Ghana
Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), hosted an international workshop, Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child, October 30 - November 2, 2018 in Accra, Ghana (invite only).
- | Abuja, Nigeria
RAcE Multi-Country Dissemination Meeting
Hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria and the World Health Organization, the four-day RAcE Multi-Country Dissemination Meeting gathered ministry of health, non-governmental organization, academic, and international public health representatives to highlight achievements, crystallise lessons learned, and elaborate sustainability roadmaps.
- | Johannesburg, South Africa
2017 Child Health Routine Data Workshop
Hosted by USAID in collaboration with USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), the three and a half day conference focused on ensuring child health and nutrition data from national HIS are available, accessible, of high quality and used for decision making.
- | Nairobi, Kenya
2016 Nairobi iCCM Workshop
In April 2014, the Global Fund and UNICEF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to better coordinate efforts aimed at reducing the burden of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria and improving the health of mothers, newborns, and children in a select number of high burden countries.