Events
Upcoming Events
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Child Survival Action Results Framework: Driving advocacy and action at global and country levels for young children
Child Survival Action (CSA) aims to eliminate preventable child deaths and accelerate progress in countries off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 2030 under-five mortality target. But how can countries track their progress and use data to advocate for action?
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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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Forecasting of RMNCH Medical Products: Improving Quantification of Child Health Commodities
The Newborn and Child Health Commodities subgroup hosted a webinar to present the updated RMNCH forecasting supplement to assist program managers, service providers, and technical experts to conduct quantification of priority medicines for child health.
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Preventing Malnutrition in At-risk Children: ALIMA's Experience with Routine SQ-LNS in Niger
The Nutrition subgroup of the Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to learn from The Alliance for International Action (ALIMA) about their experience implementing a lifesaving intervention for at-risk, malnourished children.
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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.