E-DRUG: 5 immediate recommendations to reduce childhood mortality in Zambia
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These recommendations are based on the findings for the ColaLife Operational Trial in Zambia (COTZ).
There is more detail on these recommendations
here<http://www.colalife.org/2014/05/04/5-immediate-recommendations-to-reduce-child-mortality-in-zambia/>\.
The headline findings from COTZ are here
<http://www.colalife.org/2014/02/11/seven-of-the-headline-findings-from-the-colalife-trial-in-zambia/>\.
Details of how to get access the details behind these headlines are here:
colalife.org/openaccess
- The recommended actions can be run in parallel.
- Action 4 is underway with Community Health Workers although the 'immediate action' messaging might need modification and there is a problem with the availability of ORS and Zinc.
- Action 5 is routine but the messaging might need modification.
1 Embrace the existing urban and rural network of retail outlets* as a supply channel for co-packaged ORS and Zinc*
2 Promote "start ORS and Zinc treatment immediately" as the first action to take/routine practice when a child gets diarrhoea*
3 Make co-packaged ORS and Zinc available in all health centres*
4 Para-skill retailers and Community Health Workers in diarrhoea and ORS and Zinc*
5 Raise awareness amongst mothers and carers of how to prevent diarrhoea, of the first action to take when diarrhoea strikes (start ORS and Zinc treatment immediately) and when to go to the clinic (the six danger signs)*
Non-pharmacies, non-health shops. The shops that sell cooking oil and sugar in communities.
ColaLife's Top 10 Achievements for 2013
<http://www.colalife.org/2013/12/30/top-10-achievements-in-2013/>
Simon Berry
project manager | Kit Yamoyo Transition to Scale (KYTS)
founder and ceo | ColaLife*
<simon@colalife.org>