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The Child Lung Health Division
• Publications
• The Project in Malawi
• Links
• Malawi Stories
The Child Lung Health Division was created in 1996 and has
focused its activities on developing a method of delivering health services
in low-income countries (primarily sub-Saharan Africa) to care for children
with acute respiratory infections (ARI), primarily severe/very severe
pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV related lung disease and asthma in children
under five in low-income countries.
• Publications
The Union Guide: Management of the Child with Cough or Difficult Breathing
(A guide for low income countries) was published in 1997, authored by
Penny and Donald Enarson. Currently out of stock, a revised edition
will be printed in 2004.
The new guide "The Diagnostic Atlas of Inthrathoracic Tuberculosis
in Children", by Robert Gie, is now available. (documents@iuatld.org)
10 Facts on Pneumonia in Children
• Projects
Child Lung Health Project Malawi
The innovative project for integrated child lung health in Malawi, begun
in October 2000, is now in its fourth year. It is having a considerable
effect on reducing case fatality rates in children under five admitted
with severe/very severe pneumonia.
Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
the main goal of the Child Lung Health (CLH) Project is to improve the
survival and well being of children in Malawi.
• For more
information on the project:
• Factsheet (PDF) [download]
• The lancet article [download
Word document]
• Powerpoint presentation [download]
• Press feed-back from the first International Meeting on Childhood
Lung Health in Lilongwe,
Malawi: 22-26 September 2003 [download]
• Diagnostic Atlas of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children [download]
• Links
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/HIVAIDSTB/Tuberculosis/
Announcements/Announce-182.htm
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/publications/referral_care/Referral_Care_en.pdf
International Tuberculosis Foundation
http://www.itfweb.org/
Millennium Development Project
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org
• Malawi Stories
• Charles Mwanssambo [Download in pdf]
• Mercy Kudya [Download in pdf]
• Kusungu Hospital [Download in pdf]
• Mulange Hospital 1 [Download in pdf]
• Mulange Hospital 2 [Download in pdf]
• Market [Download in pdf]
• Areas 36 – 1 [Download in pdf]
• Areas 36 – 2 [Download in pdf]
• Njedza Village – 1 [Download in pdf]
• Njedza Village – 2 [Download in pdf]
• Implementing Öxygen Concentrators – 1 [Download
in pdf]
• Implementing Öxygen Concentrators – 2 [Download
in pdf]
• Implementing Öxygen Concentrators – 3 [Download
in pdf]
• For more information on the Union Scientific
Section:
Scientific
Sections - Child lung health
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