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Diarrhea is a major cause of child death in both Cambodia and Vietnam, but for years, outdated national policies kept medicines from reaching caretakers and children suffering from diarrhea. In response, PATH led efforts in Cambodia and Vietnam to join health advocates together to assemble evidence, identify key health decision makers, and convince the ministries of health to prioritize policy changes to improve access to medicines that could reduce the toll of diarrhea.

While Zambia has made great strides in reducing deaths of children under five, the country's neonatal mortality rate has remained too high. Concerned about this lack of progress, PATH convened civil society advocates for a workshop focused on child health in late 2011. This group—which included Save the Children, the Pediatric Association of Zambia, the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, University Teaching Hospital, the Zambia Centre for Applied Health Research/Boston University, World Vision International, and Clinton Health Access Initiative— identified the absence of newborn-focused policies and strategies at the national level as a key contributor to this lack of progress. Over a three-year period, the coalition worked side-by-side with government officials to increase commitment to improving newborn health and institute a series of targeted newborn health policies, including a Newborn Health Care Scale Up Framework, revised Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) standards that included neonatal guidelines, and a set of Essential Newborn Care (ENC) Guidelines that could translate into specific action to save newborns’ lives.

This fact sheet provides an overview of rotavirus disease and vaccines in Senegal. It includes information about the tremendous burden of rotavirus diarrhea in Senegalese children, rotavirus diarrhea treatment and prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines.

This toolkit, written by the Digital Health Solutions team at PATH, provides information about currently available mobile messaging technology solutions, as well as things to consider when selecting a vendor and deploying an mHealth campaign. It was designed for project implementers using mobile messaging campaigns to encourage healthy behaviors in low- and middle-income countries.

In Kenya, malaria in pregnancy continues to contribute to high maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. By translating emerging evidence on community-based distribution of antimalarial medicine into policy action, policymakers in Kenya have the opportunity to significantly decrease malaria-related mortality and morbidity during pregnancy, safeguarding the health and lives of countless women and newborns. This brief describes recommendations and policies at the global level and in Kenya and identifies ways in which to expand access to preventive treatment for mothers.