IMCI News

IMCI Updates

The main purpose of this page is to give you additional useful information about various events related to development and implementation of WHO/UNICEF strategy on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). For more detailed information regarding IMCI you can always visit Web site of the World Health Organization, Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH).

CAH Progress Report 2006-2007

This publication outlines the Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development's (CAH) key achievements during the 2006-2007 biennium. It also contains information on the global status of IMCI implementation.

Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia

More than two million children under five die of pneumonia every year, making it the single biggest killer of children worldwide. To address pneumonia in the context of our child survival strategy, WHO and UNICEF have initiated a Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP).

Special issue of WHO Bulletin on child pneumonia

Childhood pneumonia – the single biggest killer of children under-five – is the theme of a special issue of the WHO Bulletin published in May 2008.

Annual Technical Advisers’ meeting on Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI. Baltimore, USA, 13-17 March 2008.

The Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI effectiveness impact and cost (MCE) is in its tenth and final year, with studies completed in Brazil, Peru, Tanzania and Uganda. The last Annual Technical Advisers' meeting and meeting of the Principal Investigator was held in Baltimore, USA from 13 to 17 March to discuss and interpret data from the Bangladesh site.

WHO meeting on improved management of diarrhoea. New Delhi, India, 29-31 January 2008.

WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH) organized a meeting assess the feasibility and constraints of incorporating zinc into routine treatment of acute diarrhoea at the local level.

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