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
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Transforming Child Health through Digital Data-Use Innovations & Connecting Ministries of Health
This webinar demonstrated the power of data integration and advanced analysis in making tangible differences in child health and beyond. We explored how Zenysis’ open-source data integration and analytics technology is equipping decision-makers and frontline healthcare workers with the tools they need to turn data into breakthroughs in service provision.
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From Resolution to Reality: Accelerating Progress on Maternal and Child Survival in Africa
The recent adoption of the WHA resolution on maternal and child health has catalyzed fresh momentum and expectation, reflecting a renewed commitment from global leaders to address the urgent need for progress in this critical area. This milestone is particularly significant for Africa, where excessive maternal and child mortality remains a pressing issue.
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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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Introducing From Principles to Practice: An e-Learning Course on School Health and Nutrition
The Child Health Task Force has developed a self-paced e-learning course where learners will embark on a comprehensive journey through the multi-sectoral landscape of school health and nutrition. The learning experience is divided into three modules, covering the rationale for school-based health service delivery and the mechanisms and tools to support multisectoral coordination.
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Lessons from EquiPP adaptation in Madagascar and an introduction to the next generation of DHS care seeking briefs on child health
This webinar will be co-hosted by the Private Sector Engagement (PSE) and Institutionalizing iCCM subgroups of the Child Health Task Force. It will build on findings and discussion of previous sessions hosted by the PSE subgroup.
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Introduction to a New Online Smart digital Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (Smart dIMCI) course
In an effort to increase access to high quality child health services and meet the demands for scaling up training of primary health care workers in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), WHO has developed an online smart digital IMCI course. The course is one of the options for training health workers in IMCI and can be accessed online on the WHO Academy Platform on various electronic devices (desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone) here.
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ORS and Zinc as standard of care for diarrhea management: Actions to improve uptake
Diarrhea remains one of the top leading infectious causes of childhood mortality, responsible for about 9 percent, or an estimated 500,000 deaths in children younger than five years of age worldwide. It is also a significant contributor to child growth stunting and deficits in cognitive development, with far-reaching implications for families, communities, and emerging economies.
