Mariame Sylla

TL;DR: A country-led, data-driven process to sharpen national health plans, seize opportunities to address the quality gap for care at birth and care of small and ill newborn babies, and systematically scale up care to reach every mother and newborn baby, particularly the poorest is proposed.

TL;DR: Most countries in sub–Saharan Africa now report implementing CCM for pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, or “iCCM”, so a focus on implementation is now required, including monitoring and evaluation of performance, quality and impact.

TL;DR: As individual components of the SAFE strategy, trichiasis surgery for trachoma is a cost-effective way of restoring sight in all epidemiological sub-regions considered, as is the use of azythromycin, if donated or at reduced prices.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative survey amongst technical officers in Ministries of Health and UNICEF offices in sub-Saharan Africa was conducted to provide an overview of the status in 2013 of CCM policy and implementation.

TL;DR: Community health workers (CHWs) in government community case management (CCM) programs for child survival across sub-Saharan Africa are described and more work must be done in terms of the design and implementation of the CHW programs for them to realize their potential.