The Government of Indonesia (GOI) has introduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) as a pilot in October 2017 in five districts of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) (Lombok Barat, Lombok Timur, Lombok Utara, Lombok Tengah, and Mataram) and three districts of

Since 1990, the global community accomplished a 60% drop in mortality of children under the age of five. This progress is remarkable and a cause for celebration. However, 5.2 million small children still die each year to preventable causes, with phenomena

Save the Children conducted this qualitative study in two health facilities of Sindh, Pakistan from October to December 2016 to understand the key barriers and enablers to a mother's ability to practice Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), and the feasibility of i

This document evaluates the impact of Nicaragua's integrated community case management program for hard-to-read rural communities. 

In Kenya, as in many African countries, the healthcare landscape is made up of both public and private health care providers (PHCPs). Often, it is where clients – including those who live in informal settlements- first seek care. This care is typically de

"Brigadistas de Salud" are unpaid volunteers trained by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to implement the National Community Programme for Health and Nutrition. Brigadistas are part of an integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) strategy that aims to

This document measures equity improvements after the implementation of a Community Based Newborn Care Package in the Bardiya district of Nepal. The results of this study indicate that community-based interventions delivered by female community health volu

Inequities in both health status and coverage of health services are considered important barriers to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Community-based health promotion is a strategy that is believed to reduce inequities in rural low-income setting