Events
Upcoming Events
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Announcing the Child Survival Action (CSA) Toolkit
The Child Survival Action (CSA) toolkit is a curated set of practical tools and resources designed to support county stakeholders, including policymakers, national and sub-national program managers, academics, professional associations, non-governmental organizations, and international agencies working towards improving child mortality outcomes in their national settings.
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Advancing lifecourse programming for child and adolescent health and wellbeing – routine scheduled well-child care visits
Over the past years, WHO and UNICEF have embarked on efforts to guide a comprehensive agenda and strategic shifts in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programming that would allow children to survive, thrive and develop their full potential.
Past Events
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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.
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Giving Children the Best Start in Life: Resources, Experiences, and Lessons Learned from USAID Advancing Nutrition’s Work Integrating Nutrition, Responsive Care, and Early Learning
Children who receive a combination of feeding and care interventions have improved development outcomes. In the global push toward Sustainable Development Goals 2 (zero hunger), 3 (good health and well-being), and 4.2 (early childhood development), momentum is growing for integrating key components of the multi-sectoral Nurturing Care Framework, such as responsive care and early learning (RCEL), with nutrition programming through primary health care and community platforms.
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Improving Uptake of Amoxicillin and Gentamicin for Newborn and Child Health Health
Each year, more than 700,000 children under the age of five - 90% of them in 40 low- and middle-income countries - die from pneumonia and other treatable respiratory infections. Also, nearly 7 million babies under two months experience possible serious bacterial infections.
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Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (Version 2.0) Trainings
The purpose of the first session on the Community Health Planning and Costing Tool, a UNICEF tool developed by Management Sciences for Health, was to build the capacity of planners and managers to calculate the cost of community child health services within the context of community health care programs and to develop investment cases that can be used for advocacy and planning.
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2022 Drought Response: Action Against Hunger, Somalia's Experience
The Nutrition subgroup of the Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to share the strategies and approaches used to address the drought crisis in Somalia. Action Against Hunger presented the challenges they faced, such as access to affected communities and the need for sustainable solutions.
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Country learnings and opportunities to advance pediatric quality of care
As part of efforts to strengthen implementation of maternal, newborn and child health quality of care, the Quality of Care Network and the Quality of Care subgroup of the Child Health Task Force started a new series of webinars on pediatric quality of care. The purpose of this series is to share opportunities, challenges, and recent advances in support of the implementation and monitoring of pediatric quality of care, and provide practical guidance to implementers.
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Virtual Conference: Accelerating progress towards the 2030 SDGs – Reducing inequities in child health
The Child Health Task Force is pleased to host its first virtual conference, Accelerating progress towards the 2030 SDGs: Reducing inequities in child health to be held on June 6-7, 2023. The two-day, online event will unite child health partners to examine how we address health inequities to enable children throughout the lifecourse and across the globe to survive and thrive.
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2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia
The 2nd Global Forum on Childhood Pneumonia built on the momentum for action generated by the first Global Forum in Barcelona in 2020, and pivoted political attention from COVID-19 to the specific government actions needed to reduce child pneumonia deaths.