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Integrated Health Program: Child Health Clinical Skills, CP & PPMV Training and Malnutrition Reduction
USG / Palladium Group
- Status & duration
- Completed · Completed
- Location
- Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi and Sokoto States
- States
- Sokoto, Kebbi, Bauchi, Ebonyi
USG/Palladium Integrated Health Program
Case study overview
A grant-under-contract health system intervention improving prevention, diagnosis and treatment of childhood illness at primary facilities and in communities, using the low-dose high-frequency (LDHF) approach.
Key interventions & deliverables
- Onsite clinical skills training for over 3,200 health providers on child health, nutrition, WASH, malaria and routine immunisation.
- 712 PHCs and communities reached with 235 health professional ad-hoc staff.
- 700 community pharmacists and patent medicine vendors in Sokoto and Kebbi supported on child health, maternal health and family planning.
- In Ebonyi, 195 health workers and 130 CBWs across 65 PHCs supported on food-based approaches to child malnutrition.
- Onsite mentoring on IMCI, routine immunisation, malaria rapid testing, nutrition counselling and PMTCT in facilities such as Onicha, Okaria, Akpameka and Ndiachi.
Headline impact
3,200+ health providers trained across 712 PHCs in four states.