Category: Implementation
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Reaching every child
Multi-intervention mass drug administration in Sikasso, Mali In January 2025, REACH Mali, in collaboration with the Malian Ministry of Health and Social Development, embarked on a groundbreaking mass drug administration (MDA) in the Sikasso region, aiming to address the pressing child health crisis in Mali. Over two weeks, an extraordinary campaign was carried out to…
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AVENIR II treats more than 2.5 million children in second round of MDA in Niger
AVENIR II Azithromycin MDA, second cycle, February 2025 The AVENIR project continues its mission to improve child health in Niger through the mass distribution of azithromycin. After a highly successful first phase, the second phase kicked off with the first round of distribution in Dosso, Tahoua, and Maradi. The MDA campaign in the Tahoua, Dosso…
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Updates from the field – AVENIR II in November
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AVENIR II in Niger – November 2024 November saw the successful completion of a number of activities, including the continued mass distribution of azithromycin in the Dosso and Tahoua regions. Outstanding coverage This campaign has enabled coverage areas for the intervention to be extended, particularly in the surveillance integrated health centres (CSIs), of which there…
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AVENIR II in September 2024
September was a busy month for AVENIR, with activities ranging from training courses to meetings with health and district authorities. Preparations for AVENIR II in Zinder With the second phase of the project progressing successfully in the Maradi, Dosso and Tahoua regions, activities will begin in the Zinder region during the last quarter of 2024.…
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REACH Niger publishes important results demonstrating efficacy of azithromycin in reducing child mortality
Writing in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, the AVENIR study group demonstrate that distributing azithromycin twice a year to children aged 1 to 59 months significantly reduced mortality and that including older children in treatment was more effective than targeting infants aged 1 to 11 months only.
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Updates from the AVENIR project in Niger – August 2024
The “Azithromycine pour la Vie des Enfants au Niger” (“Azithromycin to Save the Lives of Children in Niger”) project, known as AVENIR, continues to make significant progress in reducing child mortality and morbidity in Niger. One of the highlights of the AVENIR project in August was the successful completion of data collection on pregnancy history in the Tahoua and Dosso…
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AVENIR project updates, July 2024
A growing intervention The second phase of the AVENIR project is getting underway in the Dosso region of Niger during the fourth quarter of 2024. In preparation for this intervention, a national coordination team has been assigned to the region to prepare the ground for future activities and to ensure that all stakeholders are fully…
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REACH Mali begins national azithromycin distribution in Ségou
On Friday, 2 August 2024, the REACH Mali team began mass drug administration (MDA) in Baroueli, in the Ségou region, some 200km east of the capital, Bamako. The REACH project to distribute azithromycin for child survival took a major step forward this week as Mali began rolling out its national scale-up of the life-saving intervention.…
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