Partners' Publications
ECSACON
Report of The 9th Scientific Conference and 3rd Quadrennial General Meeting
August 2010
This is a report of the meeting held at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre, Lusaka, Zambia, from August 23 to 25, 2010. The theme of the conference was, "Revitalising Primary Health Care and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals." The main objective of the conference was to explore and share research findings, best practices, and experiences on how revitalizing Primary Health Care in nursing and midwifery will enhance achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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ESCA
Guidelines for the Clinical Management of Child Sexual Abuse
July 2011
The Guidelines for the Clinical Management of Child Sexual Abuse is the first comprehensive regional document to focus entirely on the clinical management of CSA. These guidelines respond to the Health Ministers' Resolution passed during the 54th session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa in 2004 entitled Child Sexual Abuse: A Silent Emergency (AFR/RC54/15 Rev.1). Existing global, regional and national resources have informed the development of this document.
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ANECCA
Validation of the Clinical Criteria for "Presumptive Diagnosis" of Severe HIV Disease in Infants and Children under 18 Months, Requiring Antiretroviral Therapy in Situations where Virological Testing is Unavailable: Final Report
December 2010
The main purpose of the study was to validate the utility of the WHO 2006 clinical criteria for presumptive diagnosis of severe HIV disease in infants and children under the age of 18 months in situations where virologic testing is not available. Its primary objective was to determine the sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of the WHO clinical criteria for presumptive diagnosis of severe HIV disease in infants and children under 18 months in correctly predicting the need for ART. It also sought to document other clinical signs not included in the current WHO clinical criteria for presumptive diagnosis of severe HIV disease in infants that are predictive of need for ART initiation.
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ECSA
ECSA Sub-Regional Implementation Framework for Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Control
2009
The implementation of interventions proposed in this publication will enhance efforts to focus attention on the health dimension and public health burden occasioned by GBV that may have received limited attention even as stakeholders sought to address the human rights aspects of GBV and child sexual abuse. This publication was produced by ECSA-HC, with support of USAID/Bureau of Africa, through Africa�s Health in 2010
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USAID
Addressing the Health Challenges to African Productivity
July 2007
This paper explores how investing in health and nutrition to prevent and control diseases has significant growth-enhancing effects for economies and businesses. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the links between health, productivity and development, and to provide information on the emergence of public-private partnerships to improve health and strengthen economic growth.
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ECSA-HC
Report of the Final Evaluation of the East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community Strategic Plan 2004-2007
May 2008
Between June and July 2007, an evaluation of ECSA-HC's strategic plan was conducted. The purpose of the evaluation was to review the implementation of the plan with a view to identifying successes, achievements, challengers, constraints and lessons learnt in the course of the Strategic Plan implementation. A further objective was to identify the health priorities, issues and challenges within the ECSA region, and learn lessons that could contribute to the development of a new ECSA-HC strategic plan of 2008-2013.
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WHO
Repositioning Family Planning Toolkit
August 2008 (The section on Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa was updated in 2010)
This toolkit aims to help those working in family planning across Africa to effectively advocate for renewed emphasis on family planning to enhance the visibility, availability, and quality of family planning services for increased contraceptive use and healthy timing and spacing of births, ultimately, improved quality of life across the region. It was developed in response to requests from several countries to assist them in accelerating their family planning advocacy efforts. The complete toolkit comes with an interactive CD, please contact us for ordering information, or download a PDF here.
Global Health Conference, Washington DC, May 2008
Africa's Health in 2010 partner, the West African Health Organization, presented the following presentations at the Global Health Conference:
The WAHO Experience: Building Partnerships for Scaling Up Community Case Management of Childhood Illnesses. Download presentation (PDF)
WHO/AFRO: Community Case Management of Childhood Illness State of the Art. Download presentation (PDF)
Home Based Care of Sick Children in Uganda. Download presentation (PDF)
PCIME-C au Senegal: Revue de la mise en œuvre au niveau national, facteurs de succès et recommandations. Download presentation (PDF)
