Sierra Leone has shown impressive commitment and progress in accelerating maternal, newborn, and child mortality reductions. The country, in 2023, launched its National Child Survival Action Plan (2023-2025) which, under the broader RMNCAH strategy and existing priorities for maternal and newborn survival, laid out priority actions, milestones and targets to address the key causes of under-five mortality through an integrated primary health care approach.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The QoC subgroup of the Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to share key government initiatives to improve quality of care for newborns and children in Uttar Pradesh. The Government of Uttar Pradesh has been making large investments towards improving quality of care for mothers and babies in the state. Based on the recently released National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 (NFHS-5), this is starting to pay dividends.
The Child Health Task Force hosted a webinar to launch the ORS/Zinc Co-pack Alliance. ORSZCA brings together organizations and individuals to identify and remove barriers to co-packaging to accelerate uptake and save lives. The Task Force will collaborate closely with ORSZCA towards the common goal of strengthened equitable and comprehensive child health programs.
