Results for the recent Senate elections in Rwanda came back with exciting news for our MCHIP team in Rwanda. Therese Bishagara, National Field Program Manager, won her Senate election, and will be taking her passion for improving the health and lives of women and children to Parliament.
This guide was developed to give those who design and implement community-oriented health programs a systematic way of ensuring that equity is incorporated into program designs and that its improvement can be better demonstrated and explained. It focuses on equitable health outcomes.
This checklist will help identify gaps in the details needed for health equity programming and communicating about the equity approach. It complements a larger reference document, Considerations for Incorporating Health Equity into Project Designs: A Guide for Community-oriented Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Projects, which includes an annex of worksheets to keep track of information needed to make decisions about health equity programming.
MCHIP's Private Voluntary Organizations/Nongovernmental Organization (PVO/NGO) support team provides technical assistance in program design, monitoring, implementation and evaluation to grantees supported through USAID's Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP), the President's Malaria Initiative's Malaria Communities Program (MCP), and other NGOs participating in USAID Mission supported initiatives.
Among the poorest and most marginalized communities, pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and AIDS (in some countries) remain the major causes of death in children under five. We know the effective preventive interventions—exclusive breastfeeding, basic hygiene including hand washing, vitamin A supplementation, and vaccinations.
Today kicked off the CORE Group’s annual spring meeting, which will run through Friday with numerous sessions on topics centered around community health systems and equity. There is no doubt both are hot topics in global health today as we look for ways to meet, or at least come close to meeting, the Millennium Development Goals.
Over 150 countries, including the U.S., observe April 25-30 as Infant Immunization Week, as occasion for raising awareness about the importance of immunization and, in some places, intensifying vaccination activities. MCHIP recognizes National Infant Immunization Week because we are dedicated to ensuring that every infant and woman of childbearing age in the developing world is fully immunized.
Make vaccination a reality for all children
"This will give mothers peace of mind."
"This will reduce my fear of my child dying of pneumonia."
"This will reduce the number of trips mothers make to the health center."
"This will save me money if my child doesn't get sick."
"We need this, bring it quickly!"
