Children's Health

Healthier Lives for Children Worldwide

Despite great progress in global health, children in developing countries continue to be vulnerable. Guided by our mission, our approach focuses on both prevention and treatment of childhood disease. Prevention involves vaccination, exclusive breastfeeding, improved nutrition, and increased access to safe water and sanitation, among other measures.

Children represent hope and the future. They are precious, innocent, and beautiful. But children are also among the most vulnerable populations in the world.

CMMB programs follow World Health Organization’s guidelines for Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI). The IMNCI approach is designed for use in outpatient clinical settings like those in our CHAMPS countries, which have limited diagnostic tools, medications, and opportunities to practice complicated clinical procedures. We work with local health facilities to ensure that they have both the human resources and the medical resources to identify and treat mothers and children. In communities, we implement the integrated community case management approach (iCCM), which empowers community health workers (CHWs) with training, supplies, and supervision to diagnose and treat or refer cases of pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria. CHAMPS supports hundreds of CHWs to do this life-saving work. CMMB-trained community health workers also work in communities to educate them on danger signs requiring facility care, on how to prevent illness, and on when to take their children to doctor.

Deworming in Haiti

Deworming is part the diarrhea prevention that iCCM addresses. The nutritional impairment caused by schistosome and soil-transmitted infections during childhood has been shown to have a significant impact on the growth and development of children, affecting not only their nutritional status but also leaving them physically and cognitively impaired. Periodic deworming treatments can help reduce these infections and prevent this damage. Worldwide, CMMB programs implement parasite prevention programs, which include deworming activities and annual, anti-parasitic campaigns.

Every year, CMMB programs improve the quality of care for thousands of children with deworming treatments.

Almost all children in Côtes-de-Fer, Haiti, suffer from soil-transmitted worms. Fortunately, this type of intestinal infection can be easily treated with albendazole, a pill taken just two times a year. With the support of pharmaceutical donations, nurses at our partner healthcare facilities in Haiti are able to treat thousands of children in need, free of charge.

Projects

Strengthening Child Protection in South Sudan
This project is helping rehabilitate and reintegrate children who have fled violence or have been forced into association with violent conflict as camp laborers or combatants.
Healing Malnutrition in South Sudan
Funded by UNICEF, CMMB taught moms in Ezo, Nzara and Mvolo to keep their babies healthy and provided treatment to children under five with severe acute malnutrition.
Tackling Newborn Mortality in Peru
CMMB tackled maternal anemia, low birth weight, and other issues driving the unusually high maternal and child mortality in the communities we support.
Eliminating Malaria in Haiti
CMMB Haiti is strengthening community and health facility malaria prevention, diagnostic, and treatment capacity, targeting pregnant women and children under five.
Zambia: Keeping Children in Families
CMMB Zambia is implementing a child protection project to reverse family, community, and system tolerance for harmful practices and build their capacity to provide stable, protective, nurturing family environments for children.
Primary Healthcare for the Poor in South Sudan
CMMB South Sudan was tasked with standardizing, functionalizing, equipping, and staffing health facilities to provide the minimum package of high-quality primary healthcare services.
Reducing HIV Infections in South Sudan
CMMB is implementing ANISA, a five-year, $6.35 million HIV prevention and care project in Yambio to reduce the incidence of new infections and improve care to persons living with HIV.
Helping Orphans and Vulnerable Children
With support from USAID, CMMB Zambia works as a subpartner to Luapula Foundation, a local NGO, to strengthen district and community structures aimed at improving services for orphans and vulnerable children.
Raising Up Forgotten Children with Disabilities in Peru
CMMB’s highly personalized, community‐based service program assists children with disabilities by providing access to high‐quality therapy based on the community‐based rehabilitation model of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Toward a Healthy First 1,000 Days in Peru
This program targeted two especially vulnerable groups in Peru: children during the period between birth and age two, and expectant mothers.
Making Motherhood Safer in South Sudan
This program encourages, mentors, and tangibly supports traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to refer pregnant women for facility-based prenatal care and delivery.
Toward Eliminating HIV in Haiti
CMMB Haiti is leading ALESIDA, a CDC-funded, HIV/AIDS care and treatment program in thirteen partner hospitals in Haiti.
Safe Drinking Water for Families in Kenya
With support from P&G, CMMB has implemented water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions that have reached 40,000 people.
Better Health for New Mothers and Babies in Haiti's Cité Soleil
In one of the largest slums in the Northern Hemisphere, CMMB is working to increase desperately poor families' access to primary healthcare services and to end diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and other preventable childhood killers.
Better Health for Peru’s Girls, Boys, and Seniors
The New Opportunities project is working to improve health outcomes in Huari, located in the Huancán district, Huancayo province.
Persuading Men to Take Responsibility for Their Families’ Health Across Zambia
After seeing how lack of male involvement in health affected HIV prevention efforts, CMMB Zambia effectively promoted novel messaging and protocols in its Men Taking Action™ project.
Ending Malaria in Zambian Communities
CMMB Zambia worked to protect women and children from malaria, which accounts for half the deaths of Zambians under five and 20 percent of maternal deaths.
Improving Nutrition for Children and Newborns in Peru
Peru’s recent economic growth hides unjust social inequalities. Development has bypassed remote rural regions, including La Libertad, Santa, and Junín, and chronic malnutrition is common among children.
Helping Babies Breathe®
Working to reduce deaths from neonatal asphyxia, CMMB Zambia trained 100 nurses and midwives in neonatal resuscitation using a NeoNatalie newborn simulator.
Training Young Haitians to Rehabilitate Amputees
After founding the Haitian Amputee Coalition in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, CMMB established an apprenticeship program designed to continue to address the country’s needs for rehabilitation and prosthetics and orthotics.
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