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Community UpdateNo. 4: 15 June 2006In this Issue From the Moderator | Network
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Dear
Friends Greetings!!
It’s great to see so many new faces (emails actually) in the group. A warm
welcome to all of you. One
e-discussion down, many more to go. I know we have missed the date for the second
e-discussion, as our guest moderator was really tied up, but I assure you it
will be worth waiting for him to guide us through. Many of
you know that the MCH team visits various regions from time to time, attending
meetings and presenting the concept of Solution Exchange – this time it was
at Symbiosis, Pune. We made some great friends and
invited many management professionals to join the group. I really look
forward to learning and sharing with them. Last
month, we introduced the Members’ Database, I have seen many of you going
there to update your profile, please do so, because we need to have your
updated information always, and now more so as some of it is also available
in public domain; more on it in the membership section. The next
good news is - we have introduced the Web Based Mailgroup
Forum, from where you can view and respond to messages. So you will not
miss a single mail. Please give us your feedback on this new system, so that
we can keep on improving. You can learn more about it in our Step by Step
Guide. Let’s
also start planning for this year’s Annual MCH Community Workshop,
which we want to hold tentatively in October, like last year. Please
send in your ideas about the theme for this year’s workshop, place,
your expectations and ways to raise funds to incorporate many
more members than last year. I will get in touch with you personally on this
issue, but if you have some quick ideas, I can place it to our Resource
Group, who will meet next month. Last but
not the least, I would like to bid farewell to my associate Dr. Abbas, who is
taking the big leap to pursue higher studies in Best
Wishes. meghendra Meghendra
Banerjee Resource
Person & Moderator, Health Communities Solution
Exchange http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in
__________________________________________________________ Membership & other Community Statistics It gives
me great pleasure to tell you that we are over 900 and growing. This has been
possible because you have made this forum a place to be. From this update, as
promised, we will introduce the new members who joined during the last month.
133 new members joined since 16th May 2006. Click
here to view the list of new members – http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/community_update/res-04-150606-04.pdf
(74 KB) Member Database is now open, you can visit http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in
to access it. You will need to log in with your email and password, to see
the details.
Member Speak From Shyamkumar Chaturvedi,
UNICEF,
The Solution Exchange is good forum
to exchange views and information on key issues affecting child survival and
health. Hope the views expressed in the forum help in making a change in
policy/strategies/implementation on a national MCH/child health problem.
From Rashmi Asif, CEDPA, Greetings!
Thanks for the update. I also thank you for putting my query regarding
PPH to the MCH community. Colleagues have started referring contacts from
where I may get some possible solutions. I find this world of 'SE'
fascinating. Jeevan Kuruvilla, CMC, One of
the common practices used in this part of the country to cease breast milk
secretion is to bind jasmine flowers to the breast tightly. I’m interested in
knowing from you about similar practices in other parts of the country for
specifically stopping breast milk secretion. |
New Feature Added Solution Exchange introduces the New Web
Based Mail Group Forum – you can now access your mails, send
replies, start a new query, search old mails with key words and access old
mails (from Day 1) from this web forum. Download a power point presentation
for a step by step guide to use this forum at http://www.solutionexchange- Upcoming Regional
Workshop in North East this month, you may
want to help by referring practitioners from the North Eastern States &
Sikkim to MCH Community.
E-discussion
Second Topic: How can we improve
effectiveness of the various field functionaries delivering MCH services?
Recently Concluded
First E-discussion Final Summary How can we empower families and communities
to better utilize MCH services? For details go to http://www.solutionexchange- From
other Solution Exchange Communities Coming Up Decentralisation Community E-discussion,
started 13 April, on Model District Planning,
Budgeting and Plan Implementation Process. More details at http://www.solutionexchange- Recently Held Kolkata
Regional Workshop for Food, Gender & WES Communities, held
on 24th April 2006 http://www.solutionexchange- Decentralisation Visioning Workshop, held
in April 2006, in /resource/
res_info_06060640.doc AIDS Community Regional workshop,
held on June 18, 2006 in From our Partners UNDP Call for
nominations – Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006, Last date: 10 July 2006. For more information click here http://www.solutionexchange- |
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________________________________________________________________ Upcoming Events From Meghendra Banerjee, Resource Person
9th
International Workshop on Gender Equity & Micro http://www.aidmat.com/idmat/gendergoa.html
This
workshop promises to conclude on Gender equity issues and women’s participation
in Microfinance & Micro From
Veronica Peris, OWSA, Workshop
on Consultation and Experience-Sharing on Safe Motherhood - Looking Ahead;
September 8-9, 2006, Organized by Centre For Women Studies at
Birla Institute Of Technology & Science, Pilani,
Rajasthan, India. More information at http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/comm_update/res-04-150606-054.doc
(479 KB) and tentative sessions plan at http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/comm_update/res-04-150606-06.doc
(31 KB) From
Sumeeta Banerjee, UNDP, Global
Course - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction,
Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform,
Applications are being invited by the World Bank Institute for the Global
Course on Reproductive Health to be held in From Arun
Gupta, BPNI, World Breastfeeding
Week 2006, theme the IMS Act – Making it Known to
People, BPNI, 2006 more at http://www.bpni.org/cgi/wbw.asp From Jaideep
Malhotra, 4th World Congress of Perinatal Medicines for Developing Countries,
Sept 29 – October 1, 2006, From
B.S. Kodkany, JN International
Congress on Evidence Based Interventions to Prevent Postpartum Hemorrhage: Translating Research into Practice,
at From Sandip
Ray, Kolkata 51st All India Annual Conference of IPHA, Kolkata, 19th to 21st January, 2007; more information can
be obtained at http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/comm_update/res-04-150606-07.doc
(54 KB) From Umesh Kapil, AIIMS, National Workshop on “Development of a
Community Based Package of Interventions for Prevention of Under Nutrition
Amongst Children Below Two Years of Age, March
2007, Resource Corner Documents From Lipilekha Patnaik Attitude Of Teenage Antenatal Mothers Towards
Pregnancy And Child Birth - A Study in Urban Slums Of Brahmapur town, by Prof. T. Sahu, Dr. R.M. Tripathy,
Dr. N. C. Sahani, Dr. D. M. Satapathy,
Dr. L. Patnaik; Published in Journal of Community Medicine Vol-2 No-1; India http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/comm_update/res-04-150606-01.pdf
(46 KB) This
study tries to assess attitude of teenage antenatal mothers towards early
pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums From Sunanda
Gupta, Global Handbook for Family Planning Providers
- Pop Reporter – This book
offers the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods and improves on
its predecessor, The Essentials of Contraceptive Technology, by covering more
methods and more related topics. Ordering info available at http://www.infoforhealth.org/pubs/globalhandbook/ To become
a member of the Pop Reporter email: rjacoby@jhuccp.org From Anushka
Kalita, SIG, ICICI Bank, Mumbai Report of: National Workshop on Community
Health Worker Training – organised by Social
Initiatives Group, ICICI Bank with the Foundation for Research in Community
Health (FRCH), from April 10 - 12, 2006 in Pune.
click http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/comm_update/res-04-150606-10.doc
(14 KB) From Marine Mukherjee, Kolkata Report of: Workshop on the Safe Motherhood
Day – organised by the State Health Dept. of WB, White
Ribbon Alliance – WB and CINI, Kolkata, 12th
April 2006. click http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/comm_update/res-04-150606-08.pdf
(80 KB) Posted by Meghendra Banerjee, Resource
Person Report to the
People, UPA Government, 2004 – 2006 http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2006/may2006/UPAbook2004-06.pdf
(383 KB) This report is published by the UPA Govt. - takes a stock of the
current UPA government’s performance in all major development issues in The World Mortality Report 2005
by The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of
the United Nations, 2006 http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldmortality/WMR2005.pdf
(4.7 MB) This
report compiles and summarizes available information about levels and trends
of mortality and life expectancy for national populations. 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic,
UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/default.asp
This
report compiles the global estimates of AIDS Epidemic and gives a range of
people estimated to be living with HIV in New standards for registration of human
medical research, WHO http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/index.html Standardizing
the way information on medical studies is made available to the public
through a process called registration, WHO is also recommending that 20 key
details be disclosed at the time studies are begun. Networks From Arti
Bhanot, UHRC, Community Health Insurance A network
of individuals and organisations interested in community health insurance -
has links to useful publications on CHI, details of some of the existing CHI
programmes a list of members. Is anyone interested to share their readings,
new publications with the community? We are building this resource corner,
where your recommended readings will feature. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Network
Activity Completed Queries Monitoring
Cold Chain Maintenance, from SRUSTI, Orissa, (Experiences). Issued
30 May 2006. Describes
various issues regarding vaccine efficacy at the community level and
maintenance of cold chain in the public and private settings. Download
this Consolidated Reply – PDF
(127 KB) Identifying
Post Partum Haemorrhage (PPH), from CEDPA, Discusses
practical experience of identifying PPH for in service training of ANMs and health workers with examples of tools already
use in various settings. Download
this Consolidated Reply – PDF
(93 KB) __________________________________________________________________________________ Open Queries Send your replies to se-mch at solutionexchange-un.net Improving
Coverage of Vitamin A Administration, from NFI, Seeks
comments on the strategy of massive dose Vit A
Administration Policy. Public
Private Partnership in RCH, IIM Ahmedabad,
(Experiences). Reply by 16 June 2006. Seeks
experience on Public Private Partnerships specifically focused on RCH. Panchayats
and Health Care System, from Foundation for Research in Community Health.
(Experiences). Reply by 23 June 2006. Cross
Posted with Decentralisation Community. Seeks
experience on establishment
of people-controlled health care system using the Panchayati
Raj Institutions. __________________________________________________________________________________ Previous Updates MCHealth
Community Update #1; Issued 7 November 2005 MCHealth
Community Update #2; Issued 23 December 2005 MCHealth
Community Update #3; Issued 16 May 2006 ____________________________________________________________________ Many
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