Community partnerships for health related MDG’s

Community partnerships for health related MDG’s Conclusions of The State of the World’s Children 2008 and Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health

Meso-level: Health system & other sectors Macro-Level: Policies and Financing Micro-level: Households/ Communities the importance of communities for Health MDG’s MDGoutcomes Family/ Community level Care MDG focused + Child friendly: MDGs : U5MR MMR Malnut. Malaria HIV/TB National Health- Nutrition Policy Efficacy Family behaviors Population oriented (outreach) services PRSP quality SWAP compliance Budget Support utilisation Community Support Protection of Household Revenue access Medium Term Expenditure Framework Individual (Clinical) Care availability

The Bamako Initiative • Launched by African health Ministers in 1987 • Built on 5 years operations research in Benin (Pahou) and Congo (Kasongo) • Community movement: Community co-managed, cost shared and monitored revitalization of 10.000 health centers with drug revolving funds • Community Based National Health Systems in Benin, Guinea, Mali, DR Congo, Guinea Bissau • Benin Immmization Coverage from 12% in 1986 to 75 % in 1990 and fully sustained since then • Resiliance demonstrated during Togo, DR Congo, Guinea Bissau and other crisis • Foundation for success of ACSD (10-20% U5MR reduction for $ 500/life saved)

Lessons Learned from a hundred years • Scaling-up will not be achieved through facility-based and outreach services alone: Community Partnerships are central to achieving coverage, creating demand and achieving sustainability. • Ensuring a continuum of care by delivering integrated packages of health, nutrition, HIV, water and sanitation interventions will be critical to achieving maximal impact on maternal, newborn and child survival. • Strengthening of ‘health-systems for outcomes’ combines the strength of selective/vertical approaches and comprehensive/horizontal approaches to scaling up evidence-based, high-impact intervention packages and practices, while removing system-wide bottlenecks to health care provision and usage.

A Continuum of Care in Time and Place Source: PMNCH (www.who.int/pmnch/about/continuum_of_care/en/index.htm), accessed 30 September 2007

Community partnerships in PHC: Ways of enhancing success • Cohesive, inclusive participation; • Support and incentives for workers; • Adequate programme supervision and support; • Effective referral systems to facility-based care; • Intersectoral collaboration; • Secure financing; and • Integration of community partnerships with district and national health programmes and policies.

Scaling up community partnerships, a continuum of care, health systems for outcomes • Realign programmes from disease –specific interventions to evidence-based, high-impact, integrated packages to ensure a continuum of care • Make MNCH a central tenet of integrated results based national planning processes for scaling up • Improve the quality and consistency of financing for strengthening health systems • Foster and sustain political commitments, national and international leadership an sustained financing to develop health systems • Create conditions for greater harmonization of global health programmes and partnerships

Striking increases in exclusive breastfeeding in 16 Sub-Saharan African countries Seven Sub-Saharan African countries have achieved increases of more than 20 percentage points over the past 15 years. Infants exclusively breastfed (< 6 mos.) Source: UNICEF global database, 2007

Pourquoi accélérer pour l’ODM4 permet d’atteindre tous les ODMs relatifs à la santé

Full Minimum Package at scale: 30% U5MR, 15% MMR, NNMR reduction for $ 800 per life saved

The Human Resource Challenge in Africa:1. On the job training of 300,000 community health promoters and health extension workers;2. Pre-service training and (re) deployment of 300,000 additional health professionals;3. Improved productivity of existing health staff resulting in over 700,000 additional Full Time Equivalents (FTE).

Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health Key Questions How strong is the evidence that CBPHC can improve child health? What conditions/program elements must be in place for CBPHC to be effective? How important are partnerships between communities and health systems? Does CBPHC promote equity and is it cost-effective?

Definition of CBPHC Activities, interventions, programs that take place in the community outside of health facilities Includes selective and comprehensive approaches Includes non-health interventions (e.g., micro-credit, education, women’s empowerment, societal factors)

Process Review of available documentation Peer-reviewed journal articles Books Program evaluations Unpublished reports Data extraction-2 independent reviewers Special focus on community context and community partnerships

Community-Based Primary Health Care Contextual Analysis and Implementation Framework Contextual factors: (external resources and support, political factors, social capital, functionality of health system, country laws, cultural issues, intracountry inequities, mortality setting, disease epidemiology, opportunities for education, women’s status, strength of medical professional lobby, etc.) Delivery System Health Outcomes Technical Interventions Community Empowerment

Technical InterventionsCriteria for defining priority effective interventions • Safety demonstrated • Shown to have mortality or nutrition improvement efficacy • Programmatic experience exists • Feasibility of or experience with reaching high coverage

Technical Interventions Priority child survival interventions for scale up • Immunizations for mothers and children • Vitamin A supplementation • Iodine fortification and supplementation when necessary • Home-based neonatal care including neonatal sepsis management • Clean delivery • Hand-washing • Household water treatment and safe storage • Sanitation • ORT and zinc for diarrhea treatment • Childhood pneumonia treatment • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV • Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-infected children

Technical Interventions Priority child survival interventions for scale up • Insecticide-treated materials and/or indoor residual spraying for malaria • Malaria treatment • Intermittent preventive therapy for malaria for pregnant women • Exclusive breastfeeding promotion for first 6 months • Continued breastfeeding promotion until at least 24 months • Ready to use therapeutic foods for severely malnourished children • Promotion of complementary feeding for children focused on 6 to 23 months • Supplementary feeding for food-insecure families focused on 6 to 23 months

Technical Interventions Interventions with more evidence needed for effectiveness, safety or feasibility of scale up • Congenital syphilis prevention • Prophylactic supplemental zinc • Prenatal calcium • Detection and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria • Umbilical cord topical antiseptic • Newborn antiseptic skin cleansing • Neonatal resuscitation and airway management • Household smoke reduction with improved cooking stoves

Technical Interventions Interventions with indirect effects on child survival • Family planning • Adult HIV treatment • Maternal mortality reduction

Technical Interventions Messages regarding effective interventions • Effectiveness and scale up depend on delivery systems, community involvement and local context • Although community engagement is ideal, interventions’ dependence on this is variable • Community engagement promotes scale up and sustainability • Integrated packages not investigated as well as single interventions

Delivery System Elements • Integration of services at community level • Foundation of values and power shifting • Peer neighborhood volunteer • Multi-purpose community health worker • Incentives: monetary, material, other • Facility outreach vs. community-based • Community-based organization for health • Community generation and use of health data • Bi-directional linkage to national health system • Accountability of health system • Bi-directional information and communication • Respectful, collaborative delivery system culture • Equitable service delivery

Delivery System Elements • Coordination of formal and traditional health sectors • Appropriate service provision intensity • Workload of community health workers • Number of tasks, number of and distance to homes • Processes to shift power locus to communities • Work with women, microcredit, conditional cash transfer • Communication technology – e.g., mobile phones • Training of community health workers • Supportive supervision of CHWs linked to PHC level • Supplies for service delivery • Adequate global and national financing • Monitoring of CBPHC program • Authority for lay persons to perform health tasks

Community EmpowermentHow community-driven is the strategy? • Community as a resource vs. target • Community vs. external priority setting • Degree of community involvement • Ownership • Decision-making power • Management • Consultation • Influence • Buy-in • Passive recipient

Community Empowerment Areas requiring community involvement • Leadership • Planning and management • Women • Community management of external resources • Monitoring and evaluation _________________________ • Local context • Value system • Delivery of services in community • Bundle of delivery systems and technical interventions

Key Contextual Factors Ecological Epidemiological Social/Cultural Political Economic Education International funding

Recommendations for Implementing CBPHC in Africa 1. “There is no universal solution, but there is a universal process to find appropriate local solutions.” Carl Taylor 2. Invest in promising CBPHC approaches and field sites, start small, and be willing to help them go to scale within a framework of rigorous evaluation and operations research that demonstrates effectiveness in reducing under-five mortality 3. Look for and support promising young leaders who have a passion for CBPHC or who have the potential for becoming passionate leaders of CBPHC 4. Support opportunities for program leaders to visit and learn from successful experiences – build on success 5. Plan at the outset for long-term sustainability and for the supportive “human” infrastructure required for CBPHC (supervision, training, M&E) 6. Make under-five mortality in defined geographic areas the key outcome indicator and build it into ongoing program operations

Next Steps Forceful statement SOON from the Expert Review Panel to the world (via Lancet?) – building on the review but moving beyond it Early completion of the review as originally envisioned Incorporation of suggestions and recommendation of the Expert Review Panel and others into final report Broad dissemination of findings

CHILD SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT:- ACHIEVING MDG 4 Scaling up High Impact Population- Based Interventions Improving family and Community Care practices Feeding Practices, Sleeping under ITNs, ORT, Hygiene & Sanitation, Early care seeking ITNs, Immunisation, New ORS, Vitamin A, Antibiotics for Pneumonia, Deworming Community Capacity Development:- Social Change Communication, CIMCI, Outreach Support Health System Support:- Facility-Based IMCI, EPI+, ANC+, EmOC, PMTCT, Paediatric AIDS Access to Safe & Clean Water, Intersectoral Linkages (Education HIV/AIDS), Household Food Security Moving Upstream:- Evidence-Based Advocacy, Leverage of Resources, SWAPS/Govt. Budget/PRSPS, Policy Dialogue

Services à base communautaire et familiale Situation de base Matrones formées dans la majorité des villages Insuffisant recours à la matrone - habitude socio-culturelle Sous utilisation des matrones formées. Barrières culturelles, ignorance, qualité des prestations/accueil/ non connaissance des soins NNé Indisponibilité de kits pour accouchement propre au niveau des villages

Services à base communautaire et familialePhase 1: 2008-2010 Approvisionnement en kits d’accouchements et distribution gratuite lors de la CPN Lever les barrières culturelles et d’ignorance : IEC/CCC, supervision des matrones pour améliorer la qualité/accueil des prestations à domicile 85,0% 63,9% 53,3% 29,8% 29,8%

Services à base communautaire et familialePhase 2: 2011-2012 IEC/CCC, améliorer la qualité accts à domicile, promouvoir la participation communautaire dans la gestion des services, promouvoir la référence pour acct assisté au CSI 85,0% 63,9% 53,3% 37,1% 37,1% 29,8% 29,8%

Services à base communautaire et familialePhase 3: 2013-2015 IEC/CCC, améliorer la qualité accts à domicile, promouvoir la participation communautaire dans la gestion des services, promouvoir la référence pour acct assisté au CSI 85,0% 63,9% 53,3% 44,4% 44,4% 37,1% 37,1%

Services orientés vers les populationsSoins curatifs et préventifs de l’enfantSituation de base Faible disponibilité et inégale répartition des RH, refus à la décentralisation Rupture de stock de vaccins Barrières géographiques financières et culturelles. Insuffisance de la mobilité sociale, qualité des prestations/accueil

Service orienté vers les populationsSoins curatifs et préventifs de l’enfantÉchéance 2015 Formation initiale, Recrutement, Redéploiement, Prime / motivation Plan d’approvisionnement et gestion des stocks Atteindre chaque enfant, Améliorer la qualité des prestations/accueil, IEC/CCC, engagement communautés 96,0% 96,0% 94,7% 90,1% 90,1% 68,0%

Soins cliniques individuelsSoins curatifs au niveau des CSI 2 Situation de base Barrières financières, physiques, ignorance Insuffisance et pb répartition RH, Manque de personnels formés Coûts élevés prestations, faible qualité des services/ accueil

Soins cliniques individuelsSoins curatifs au niveau des CSI 2 Échéance 2015 Formation recyclage Redéploiement des agents Supervision/ formation PCIME → Qualité accueil/prestation 95% Case santé → CSI 1 CSI 1 → CSI 2 Dévpt PCIME ds cursus de formation 79% 78% 71% 69% 59%

2006: A regional JUMP START: Scaling up of key health nutrition and WASH evidence based effective interventions World Press Photo 2005

Exclusive BF and BF+ water only in WCAR <2 2 to 3 4 to 5 6 to 7 8 to 9 10 to 11 12 to 15 16 to 19 20 to 23

Allaitement maternel exclusif ou Allaitement maternel avec eau(Source: dernières EDS –MICS)

Nutrition suggested activities for CS Jump Start • Exclusive breastfeedingfor 6 months • Early initiation of breastfeeding (<1 hour after birth) • No prelactal foods, No water +++ • Saves 225.000 children’s lives per year • Vitamin A and Deworming • Management of acute severe undernutrition in children 6-59 mo • Treatment and prevention • Through facility-based and community-based programs • For the same communities and at the same time (including urban) →Support countries in the development of national protocols → Support regional & national training workshops for capacity building → Ensure pipeline of uninterrupted supplies (therapeutic and supplementary foods and non food items)

Why water and sanitation matter to the jump start • Improved household water quality helps prevent endemic diarrhoea: cholera Latrine ownership potentially reduces diarrhea disease by an average of 36% • Handwashing with soap can • Significantly reduce the risk of diarrhea > 46% • Can save 0.5 – 1.4 million deaths a year • Impacts on helminth and eye infections, especially trachoma • Key in the fight against avian flu

What we need to do Include hand washing for mothers in the jump start BUT At the same time make sure WASH in the CO programme is looking at water point and sanitation (latrine) coverage – MGD 7, target 10 Doing one without the other makes no long term sense: read the WASH strategy This requires ‘at scale’ communication programmes Should not necessarily be WASH sector driven but integrated in to our health and nutrition entry points Work with academic institutions/NGOs to assist with rapid baseline behaviour assessments and conduct surveys for compliance (behaviour change) RO is working on guidelines for communication strategies

Integrated Immunization: EPI-VitA-ITNs • Increase routine immunization coverage for all antigens (including TT 2+) in all districts by 10 points • Ensure the second dose of measles vaccine for all children (routine and SIA) • Integrate vitamin A supplementation within routine immunization • Integrate ITNs distribution and promotion of its utilization within routine immunization • Introduction in EPI of new and underused vaccines in all countries ( YF , HepB , Hib)

Quelle meilleure contribution de l’UNICEF? Renforcer les politiques, la législation, plans & budgets + espace budgétaire Facilitation de l’approche MBB Action au niveau communautaire et stratégie avancée Atteindre l’ODM 4 et contribuer aux autres ODMs relatifs à la santé Analyse de situation basée sur l’évidence Couverture effective des interventions à haut impact Analyse de la situation, monitoring & Micro-planification

Community partnerships for health related MDG’s