Action - A2Z: The USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness - Oral rehydration solution promotion - Diarrhoea cases

Programme: A2Z: The USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness

Programme description

A2Z: The USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness Project consolidates, builds, and expands on USAID's long-term investment in micronutrients, child survival, and nutrition. A2Z takes proven interventions to scale, introduces innovation, expands services, and builds sustainable programs to increase the use of key micronutrient and blindness interventions to improve child and maternal health. With work in vitamin A supplementation of children, newborn vitamin A, food fortification, maternal and child anemia control, monitoring and evaluation, and health systems strengthening, A2Z's focus countries have included Bangladesh, Cambodia, the East, Central and Southern Africa region, India, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda and West Bank.

The objectives of A2Z’s program in Uganda are to support increased vitamin A supplementation coverage in selected districts, expand coverage of fortified foods, improve coverage and adherence to anemia protocols for pregnant women, and support development of guidelines to include zinc in diarrhea case management for young children.

Programme type

Multi-national

References

Status: 
Completed

Start date:

January
2005

End date:

January
2011
Area: 
Urban
Rural
Peri-urban
Target group: 
Diarrhoea cases
Delivery: 
Community-based
Implementation details : 

A2Z provided assistance to the MOH in reviewing the plan for revitalization of oral rehydration therapy and advocated for the inclusion of zinc as an adjunct therapy for diarrhea treatment. Zinc therapy as part of diarrhea management was accepted as national treatment in December 2006.

Outcome indicator(s): 

diarreal cases

Outcome reported by social determinants: 
Vulnerable groups

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