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Community Case Management Of Serious, Common, Childhood Infections in High Mortality Countries: Rationale, Experience, and Opportunities. Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Non-Governmental Organization Teleconference April 7, 2011. David R. Marsh, MD, MPH
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Community Case ManagementOf Serious, Common, Childhood Infections in High Mortality Countries: Rationale, Experience, and Opportunities Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Non-Governmental Organization Teleconference April 7, 2011 David R. Marsh, MD, MPH Senior Advisor, Child Survival Global Team Leader, Community Case Management
Outline • Rationale and definition • Experience • Programs • Research • Opportunities
Causes of Child Death – 2008* *Slide courtesy of S Qazi and T Cherian, WHO/CAH • Globally, pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria account for 41% of 8,000,000 deaths (3.3 million) annually. • In Africa they account for 53% of the 4,200,000 deaths in (2.2 million) annually. Global WHO CHERG estimates, Black et al Lancet 2010
Uneven coverage patterns across interventions*Coverage levels for countdown interventions and approaches, 68 priority countries • Though the global average immunization coverage is high, coverage with Hib vaccine is low and pneumo and rotavirus vaccines have to be introduced and scaled up • Coverage with other interventions is low and in some instances declining *Slide courtesy of S Qazi and T Cherian, WHO/CAH % Source: WHO CAH department; WHO-UNICEF immunization coverage estimates
Socio-economic Impact of Childhood Infection • Infection predisposes to malnutrition, which increases risk of more infection, more malnutrition... • Children miss learning (pre-school or school): short-term effects on the child, long-term effects on society • Malnutrition further compromises learning • Caregivers miss work, reducing earnings and productivity • Families spend resources on treatment and transport, reducing ability to purchase other goods and services • CCM (1) saves time, money and human capital, (2) halts the progression of disease and (3) interrupts the infection-malnutrition cycle
CCM is a strategy in which… • A health system trains, supplies and supervises front-line workers in communities without access to health facilities to treat children using evidence-based protocols for common, serious infections: • Mainly diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria • And sometimes dysentery, newborn sepsis and acute malnutrition.
Sick Child Recording Form ASK LOOK DECIDE ACT: TREAT AT HOME ACT: REFER
Drugs & Equipment (Nicaragua) Spoons, timer, mixing containers, counseling cards, raincoat, forms Antibiotic, zinc, ORS, antipyretic
Encounter (Nicaragua) Counting respirations. Treatment Register
Health Worker with her Supervisor and her Supervisor’s Supervisor Supervision (Nicaragua) Supervision Checklist
Projects, Programs, and/or Technical Assistance to Governments (22) • Asia (8): Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan • Africa (9): Angola*, Ethiopia, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia • Latin America (5): Bolivia*, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua *closed
Evaluation of a CCM Demonstration (2005-06) in Liben District, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia Total Population: 138,000 (2001) Under five mortality: 161/1000 live births
Provider Retention (7/05-8/06) Access to Case Management % 38/40 7/14 *SC trained 45 and certified 40 CCM providers
Use of Case Management (7/05-8/06) • CCM volunteers saw on average 12 cases/month • Feasible • Minor CCM disease (“cough/cold”): 4% • Not overused • Severe CCM disease: 2.8% • Early care-seeking #
Treatment Seeking for Cough and Difficult Breathing (1997-2006) Clinic-based treatment of pneumonia and malaria. CCM of pneumonia and malaria. * % 17% 58% 84% * = 200,000 untreated cases of childhood pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea every year
Treatment Seeking for Cough and Difficult Breathing (1997-2006) Clinic-based treatment of pneumonia and malaria. CCM of pneumonia and malaria. * % CCM 17% 58% 84% * = 200,000 untreated cases of childhood pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea every year
Scale (2009-2011) Publication: Degefie T, Marsh DR, Gebremariam A et al. Community case management improves use of treatment for childhood diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia in a remote district in Ethiopia’s Oromiya Region, Eth J of Hlth Dev 2009; 23(2):120-126. Stakeholder buy-in: Ethiopian Pediatrics Society recommended Health Extension Workers to treat pneumonia (2009) Policy change: 2010 National implementation:Broad partnership to roll out community-based pneumonia treatment in 100s of districts (2010-2011)
Current CCM Research • Effective access in Malawi, Mali, Zambia • Video-based training in South Sudan • Supervision in Malawi and Ethiopia (mHealth) • Teaming CHW and TBA in Zambia • Effect of demand generation in Pakistan • CCM of severe acute malnutrition in Bangladesh • Severe pneumonia in Pakistan • Cost of pneumonia treatment in Pakistan • Costing in Malawi • Global indicator validation in Malawi, Mali
Corporate Opportunities to Advance the Agenda • Save the Children will continue to: • Speak for children dying from controllable diseases • Develop materials: printed, videotaped • Take on “a killer” • Leverage a seat “at the table” for multilateral policy and implementation • Sponsor a policy meeting or participation from abroad • Contribute to global and country research • Support answering a research question from your “corporate community” of national relevance • Provide technical assistance to governments to test, introduce and/or scale up CCM • Provide gift-in-kind for CHW kit • CHWs: “adopt” 100, supervise 500, train 1000 • Sponsor a district, province or country
Corporate Opportunities to Advance the Agenda • Save the Children’s new directions: • Add CCM for neonatal sepsis into child CCM • Test mobile phone applications (“mHealth”) • Develop and test other technologies for training, supervision, case management • Strengthen facility-based case management • Engage private sector providers • Motivate private sector • Support testing public-private partnership
Twa to te la 谢谢 (xièxiè) Photo by Cleis