To decrease child mortality due to common but life-threatening illnesses, community health workers (CHWs) are trained to assess, classify and treat sick children. For pneumonia, CHWs are trained to count the respiratory rate of a child with cough and/or difficulty breathing, and determine whether the child has fast breathing or not based on how the child’s breath count relates … [Read more...] about The use of counting beads to improve the classification of fast breathing in low-resource settings: a multi-country review
Community Case Management
Rational use of antibiotics by community health workers (CHWs) and caregivers in Zambia
This study provides evidence on rational use of antibiotics for treatment of pneumonia symptoms to inform future implementation of integrated community case management (iCCM), safeguarding effectiveness of current treatments whilst continuing to maximise access to care. … [Read more...] about Rational use of antibiotics by community health workers (CHWs) and caregivers in Zambia
Developing Intervention Strategies: innovations to improve community health worker motivation and performance
During the last decade child mortality has reduced significantly in a number of African countries, largely due to the scale up of appropriate management of diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria, three leading causes of death among young children. As a way of increasing access to treatment for sick children, several African countries are investing in community health workers (CHWs) … [Read more...] about Developing Intervention Strategies: innovations to improve community health worker motivation and performance
Making Decisions for the Better Care of Children: The role of gatekeeping in strengthening family-based care and reforming alternative care systems
Monitoring iCCM: a feasibility study of the indicator guide for monitoring and evaluating integrated community case management
Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have now adopted integrated community case management (iCCM) of common childhood illnesses as a strategy to improve child health. In March 2014, the iCCM Task Force published an Indicator Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating iCCM: a ‘menu’ of recommended indicators with globally agreed definitions and methodology, to guide countries in … [Read more...] about Monitoring iCCM: a feasibility study of the indicator guide for monitoring and evaluating integrated community case management