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Can Low-Literacy Mothers Deliver Care to Children in Rural Niger?

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Jennifer Weiss, MPH , Concern Worldwide, New York, NY
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
In the northwestern Niger (Tahoua), malaria, pneumonia, and diarrheal disease account for 89% of child mortality. Lack of access to quality health services has a key impact on mortality. Only 53% of the population lives within five kilometers of a health center. Concern Worldwide is testing a CCM model, training “Mother Leaders (MLs)” with limited literacy to manage common childhood illnesses (malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition), in addition to conducting health promotion. MLs can help reduce the simple cases for health workers, and give providers time to manage severely ill children. Findings show that MLs are helping to meet treatment demands for ill children. More than 1400 children were treated by MLs in a three-month period. Training, certification, and deployment of MLs is feasible and services are acceptable to the community. Quality and supervision remain key issues. Final data will be available in September 2014.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Analyze findings of the process of task shifting CCM services to low literacy women and discuss implications for future government programming. Assess factors influencing demand for CCM services at the household level in rural Niger Discuss stakeholders’ perspectives of acceptability of the CCM intervention

Keyword(s): Community-Based Health, Maternal and Child Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have over ten years experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of community-based maternal and child health programs in developing countries. I also directly advise the program on which I am presenting.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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