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Plenary session 3 - Creating programmatic linkages across the continuum of care |
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Co-chairs
H.E. Dr Majed Al Juneid, Deputy Minister for Health, Yemen and
Dr Tigest Ketsela, Director Family and Reproductive Health, WHO/AfFRO, chaired the Friday afternoon plenary session on the topic of creating programmatic linkages across the continuum of care. |
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MNCH interventions- what is new and how can we better integrate? Dr Joy Lawn, Saving Newborn Lives/ Save the Children-US
Dr Lawn presented some an update on new MNCH interventions since the first Countdown meeting in 2005. Progress has been made in identifying new interventions, new delivery strategies as well as efforts to integrate packages and places of care. Some of these developments - such as identifying newborn illness through IMCI - are ready for immediate implementation while others - intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants, for example - are promising but still require additional research. Dr Lawn also reviewed some of the new evidence to address three important gaps in the continuum of care; emergency care at birth, postnatal care, and care for sick children. Encouragingly, many of the new research findings highlighted in 2005 are now being implemented. GRIPP-getting research into policy and practice.
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A close look at nutrition, Lancet Update, Dr Robert Black
Dr Black took a closer look at nutrition providing an overview of the recent Lancet series on nutrition. Dr Black highlighted that undernutrition begins with the mother and may lead to maternal health problems as well as babies born with intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR). Stunting and wasting begins in early childhood, usually caused by diets that do not provide sufficient nutrients coupled with high rates of infectious disease. IUGR, stunting and wasting together are responsible for 2.2 million deaths each year, representing 7% of the total global disease burden for any age group. |
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Dr Ketsela introduced the Panel on Integration Efforts for MNCH Scale Up
Dr Victor Mukonka, Director of Public Health and Research from the Zambia Ministry of Health summarised how Zambia has moved from single interventions to packaged MNCH services. Ngashi Ngongo of UNICEF South Africa shared lessons learned from HIV and MNCH integration in South Africa. Dr Pal Niklas Danielsson, WHO Office, Cambodia presented the experience of GAVI Alliance Health Systems Strengthening work as an example of system strengthening within an overall continuum of care approach.
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WHO/Giacomo Pirozzi
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