Events
Upcoming Events
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Launch of The Lifesaving Power of Pneumonia and Diarrhea Vaccines for Children
Global coverage of vaccines targeting pneumonia and diarrhea - the leading infectious killers of children - lag far behind other vaccines. Just seven in 10 children are fully protected with Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine, six in 10 with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), and five in 10 with rotavirus vaccine. If coverage of all three vaccines was above 90% - the global target - the deaths of an additional 450,000 children could be prevented by 2030.
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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
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The Market Development Approach: Lessons from The Frontier Health Markets Engage Project in Tanzania
The Market Development Approach is a set of principles, frameworks, tools, and guidance. It has the specific objectives of developing and facilitating more effective and more inclusive market systems in the health sector across different health areas. It offers a lens through which the operationalization of these objectives can take place as identification and diagnosis of constraints and definition of opportunities for interventions is conducted.
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Measurement of Pediatric Quality of Care: Lessons from Sierra Leone and Kenya on the Process for Integrating Pediatric Quality of Care Indicators in the National Health Information System
This webinar takes a deep dive into the pediatric quality of care indicators and share latest updates from pathfinder countries Sierra Leone and Kenya that moved ahead with efforts to introduce the pediatric quality of care indicators in their national health information systems.
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Childhood Vaccination Subgroup Kick Off Event
The kick-off call for the new Childhood Vaccination subgroup of the Child Health Taskforce took place on on October 10, 2023 from 11:00am to 12:00pm EST. The subgroup will offer a forum to support the Child Survival Action agenda by accelerating efforts to increase coverage of the most life-saving vaccines - pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), rotavirus, measles, DTP vaccines, and in some settings malaria vaccines - in the countries that are off-trac
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Strengthening Nurturing Care in Humanitarian Response Series
The Global Health Cluster is collaborating with the Child Health Task Force, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies, and other partners to incorporate the Nurturing Care Framework into the health sector contribution to humanitarian responses for children, caregivers, and families.
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Showcasing a Toolkit for Institutionalizing iCCM
This CHTF webinar which took place on September 19th allowed participants to learn about the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) Toolkit.
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The Future of Counseling within GMP: A Learning Agenda to Shape Policy and Programming Priorities
In 178 countries worldwide, growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) continues to be an important entry point for preventive care and essential child health, nutrition, and development services. Given the varying levels of quality and success, country leadership and global teams are working to strengthen GMP.
