Events
Upcoming Events
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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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Adapting Health Systems to Protect Children from the Impact of Climate Change Series
The Re-imagining the Package of Care for Children subgroup of the Child Health Task Force and UNICEF are co-hosting a webinar series building on the event in May to foster discussion around adapting child health systems to become more resilient in the face of the climate crisis moving forward.
Past Events
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Members' Meeting: Child Survival Action
The Child Health Task Force Secretariat hosted a members' meeting to share progress on the initiative to renew action for child survival. In 2020, preventable causes took the lives of nearly 2.7 million children aged from one month to 5 years.
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Child Survival Action: A roundtable discussion for accelerated progress towards 2030
WHO, UNICEF, USAID, GFF, Save the Children, PMNCH, the Child Health Task Force and the Ministries of Health from Sierra Leone and Tanzania hosted a roundtable to discuss a renewed commitment, investment and action for child survival, especially in the post-newborn, under-five period.
Find the recording, presentation slides, and event summary below.
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Providing Respectful Care for Newborns and Children: Lessons learned and opportunities for improved experience of care in healthcare settings
The Quality of Care subgroup of the Child Health Task Force and the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health hosted a webinar to highlight the need for improved providers’ competencies to ensure high quality, people-centered and responsive care is provided to newborns, children and their families.
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Improving Uptake of Amoxicillin and Gentamicin: A three-part consultation
The Newborn and Child Health Commodities subgroup, chaired by USAID and UNICEF, hosted a series of consultative meetings on the availability and use of amoxicillin and gentamicin to treat pneumonia in children under 5.
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Multi-sectoral Approaches to Child Health: A discussion series
The Re-imagining the Package of Care for Children subgroup is hosting a discussion series to learn about and collect case studies on effective multi-sectoral approaches to child health programming. The session focused on evidence gathered during a literature review of multi-sector projects. The second session shared two programmatic case studies: 1. The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Project in Honduras, and 2. Tiwalere II Project in Malawi.
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The Burden of Climate Change on Children: Addressing climate-related inequities in child health
The Child Health Task Force hosted a panel discussion on how to accelerate action for children at risk of dying from climate-related health conditions.
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Improving Quality of Nutrition MNCH Services: Global resources, opportunities & lessons from Ethiopia
The Quality of Care subgroup and the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health hosted a webinar to review the nutrition-specific components of the WHO standards for improving quality of facility-based care.
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Improving Treatment of Wasting in Children through iCCM
The iCCM and Nutrition subgroups of the Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to share findings from a MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership report on policy, programmatic and operational learnings of integrating case management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and iCCM.