http://www.childcount.org Every Child Counts Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:10:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Chibulu Luo PMTCT Module – What are the perceptions after one year in Kenya? It has been precisely one year since the inception of the PMTCT Module in Sauri, Kenya.  Though, the MVP team has been unable to draw accurate conclusions on the end-user perception of the module. That ... http://www.childcount.org/2011/09/19/preventing-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv-in-kenya-one-year-later/ Last week, the PMTCT (prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV) module of ChildCount+ (CC+) was launched in Ghana.  This marks the second MVP site to implement the PMTCT software, with the first site being the Sauri Cluster in Western Kenya (see PMTCT in Kenya for a thorough explanation of the ... http://www.childcount.org/2011/08/04/pmtct-module-rolls-out-in-ghana/ The Kenyan ministry of Health is launching the free anti-pneumonia vaccinations in public hospitals in February which will save the country 80,000 hospital admissions annually and could save as many as 9,000 lives nationwide. The pneumococcal vaccine, which costs $185 for three sessions in the private sector, will be given ... http://www.childcount.org/2011/01/31/childcount-to-help-track-new-pneumococcal-vaccine-in-kenya/ Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Engineering French writer (1900 - 1944) When I arrived at the Sauri Cluster, one of fourteen clusters of villages across sub-Saharan Africa that are part of Columbia University’s ... http://www.childcount.org/2010/08/17/using-childcount-to-strengthen-maternal-and-childhood-health/ Originally Posted on July 1, 2010 by karibusauri By Denise Lee & Jaclyn Carlsen No, not that Hilary Clinton, this was a little boy (yes a boy) living in the Sauri Millennium Village Cluster.  Hilary was having a nutritional status screening performed by Richard*, his community health worker. To do this, Richard placed ... http://www.childcount.org/2010/08/03/meeting-hilary-clinton/ Part of the ChildCount+ implementation process involves the daunting task of registering all members of the community. Community Health Workers across all MVP sites are equipped with a standardized paper registration form. The form includes fields for Health ID numbers, First Name, Family Name, Gender, Age/DOB, Head of ... http://www.childcount.org/2010/06/25/fieldnotes-mbola/ Now that we have the ability to record the key health interventions in a child's health history, we've begun to think how we can convey this visually. Ideally, we want a method that will allow us to quickly evaluate the status of a child's health taking in consideration health events ... http://www.childcount.org/2010/06/13/visualizing-a-childs-health/   [caption id="attachment_280" align="aligncenter" width="558" caption="Child Mortality"][/caption] The World Bank just made open their database of 2,000+ development indicators at data.worldbank.org.  The site, done by our talented friends at DevelopmentSeed, does a powerful job of exposing with data how important the work to improve child and maternal health is. http://www.childcount.org/2010/04/27/wh-childcount-matters/ Python, Django and RapidSMS have been my bread and butter since one Sunday afternoon, the 1st of August, 2009. I had just spent about 18 months on corporate business application development and was now venturing into the world of NGOs and open source software development--things that had had much influence ... http://www.childcount.org/2010/04/23/experience-dickson-ukanga/ The Lancet estimates that 200 million children under-five in developing countries do not reach their cognitive, physical and social potential due to a number of biological, environmental and social risk factors that they are exposed to during the critical early stages of their development. For example, stunting, a direct ... http://www.childcount.org/2010/04/22/childcount-and-early-childhood-development/