Events
Upcoming Events
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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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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.
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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.