Policy - National Plan of Action for Child Survival 2009 – 2015

Date:

2009

End date:

2015

Published by:

Ministry of Health

Published year:

2009

Is the policy document adopted?:

No / No information

Type of policy:

Health sector policy, strategy or plan with nutrition components

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Goals

Goals, objectives or targets related to nutrition:

I. GOAL

To maintain and expand the coverage of essential interventions for child survival in order to decrease disparities, improve child health, and reduce child mortalities in all population groups and regions of Viet Nam, towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4 - :reducing child mortality” by the year 2015.

Strategies

Strategies and activities related to nutrition:

III. Essential CS interventions

The Regional Child Survival Strategy recommended an Essential package as below:

Skilled attendance during pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum period
Care of newborns
Breastfeeding and complementary feeding
Micro-nutrient supplementation
Immunization of children and mothers
Integrated Management of Sick Children
Use of insecticide-treated bed nets (in malaria prevalent areas)

Objective 1. To obtain universal coverage of essential child survival interventions and improve their availability and accessibility for children particularly in disadvantaged socio-economic, remote and mountainous areas

Activities:

Maintaining and strengthening essential interventions for CS through national MCH care programs and relevant projects that are currently available.
Identifying disadvantaged localities for prioritized investments and resources and localities where MMR and NMR are high.

Enhancing the breastfeeding and reasonable complementary feeding promotion activities through implementation of 2006-2010 National Plan of Action on Child Feeding.
Improving capacity and strengthening operational activities of the Steering Committee for Child Feeding and Breastfeeding in order to enhance advocacy for resource mobilization in implementing child nutritional activities.
Reviewing implementation of 2006-2010 National Plan of Action on Child Feeding and developing 2011-2015 work plan.
Providing training and re-training on breastfeeding to Ob-Ped doctors, midwives, nurses.
Providing training to VHWs on counseling, advocacy for pregnant women to attend facility-based delivery, and implement essential interventions for CS.
Providing training to village midwives or VHWs in mountainous and ethnic

minority areas to have knowledge on pregnancy management, normal delivery, newborn care.
Designing appropriate models to deliver services to all mothers and children such as mobile service team for MCH, nutrition, vaccination at village/hamlet, breast-milk support group at the community, etc.

M&E Indicators

M&E Indicators related to nutrition:

Targets by the year 2015:

To reduce the U5MR < 18‰.
To reduce the IMR < 15‰.
To reduce the NMR < 10‰.
To reduce the prevalence of underweight and stunting rates among children under-5 to below 15% and 20% respectively.

Objective 1. To obtain universal coverage of essential child survival interventions and improve their availability and accessibility for children particularly in disadvantaged socio-economic, remote and mountainous areas

Targets by the year 2015:

Increase the rate of infants to be given breastfeeding within 1 hour after birth to 90%
Increase the rate of infants less than 6 months of age exclusively breastfed to 50%.
Increase the rate of infants between 6-9 moths of age receiving breast milk and reasonable complimentary food to 85%.
Increase the rate of children between 6-59 months of age receiving vitamin A in the past 6 months to 90%
Increase the rate of 1 year old children to be fully vaccinated to 90% (mountainous areas: 80%; delta areas: 95%).
Increase the rate of 1 year old children to be measles vaccinated to 95% (mountainous areas: 90%; delta areas: 98%).
Increase the rate of pregnant mothers to be fully tetanus vaccinated to 95% (mountainous areas: 80%; delta areas: 98%).
Increase the rate of facility-based delivery to 95% (mountainous areas: 80%; delta areas: 98%). Ensure the rate of 90% of home-based delivery to be attended by health workers.
80% of infants are given home care visit at least once within the first week after delivery.

Objective 4: To increase community participation and awareness on child survival and best key family practices for child survival and neonatal care at family and community levels

Targets by the year 2015:

3. 95% of children between 0-59 months of age who had diarrhoea to be treated with ORT and 80% of them to be treated by zinc.

M&E Indicator types:

Outcome indicators

File upload:

VNM 2009 National plan of action for child survival.pdf

Revision log

Date	User	Log	State
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