Project profile — Child Health Week 2010

• Zambia (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Infectious disease control (12250) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (significant objective)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project supports UNICEF's collaboration with the Zambia Ministry of Health in the implementation of Child Health Week (CHW - June-July 2010) activities which aim to strengthen immunization coverage in Zambia. It is a semi-annual health intervention targeting children under five years of age. Beginning in 2000 as a vitamin A intervention and National Immunization Days, this has grown to a broad range of interventions that include: vaccination, growth monitoring, treatment of children using guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illnesses, re-treatment of bed nets, screening of children for malnutrition, and provision of family planning services. CHWs are part of the district annual plans.

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Results achieved as end of project in the five rural provinces of Zambia (Eastern, Luapula, Northern, Southern and Western) covered by this project include: 990,364 children (aged 9 - 47 months) are immunized against measles; 288,496 children (aged 0-59 months) are immunized against polio, 1,308,972 children (aged 6-59 months) are supplemented with Vitamin A and 1,137,294 children (aged 12-59 months) de-wormed. All five provinces exceeded the 80% target set for measles and polio coverage and all (except Western province) reached coverage of 90% or more for Vitamin A and deworming medication.

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