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As a result of advocacy by UNICEF and other development partners, the Ministry of Health
built and equipped a newborn resuscitation block in the maternal and child centres of three
regions where partners, including UNICEF, provide technical and financial support for the
reduction of neonatal mortality.
In addition, to improve the management of young infant infections, Niger started piloting a new
World Health Organization (WHO) directive on the management of possible serious bacterial
infection (PSBI), in the framework of a UNICEF and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
partnership. Through this approach, trained health workers in primary care facilities use
simplified antibiotic regimens to treat sick newborns and young infants on an outpatient basis.
This approach was integrated into the new National Strategic Plan on Maternal, Newborn,
Child and Adolescent health, and started to be implemented in April 2018 in four pilot health
districts in the region of Maradi.
For the third consecutive year, large-scale seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaigns
coupled with malnutrition screening took place, covering 61 out of 72 districts in 2018. This
was done with funding from several partners, mainly UNICEF, the Global Fund, the World
Bank, the President Malaria Initiative, Fonds Français Muskoka (FFM) and Catholic Relief
Services. Out of a target of 4 million children aged 3-59 months, 3.9 million received the first
dose of seasonal malaria chemoprophylaxis and a total of 3.6 million children received the
medicines during the four consecutive rounds, contributing to the reduction of 13,608 malaria
cases compared with 2017. Over 3.5 million children were screened for malnutrition monthly
during the lean season (July – October). During each round, 30,000 to 35,000 children were
found to suffer from severe acute malnutrition and were referred to a health facility for
treatment.
Table.3: Number of cases of malaria and number of deaths from malaria in 2017 versus
2018
Regions
Number of cases
Number of
deaths
Average cases/100,000
2017
2018
2017
2018
people
2017
2018
Agadez
23,480
26,334
14
53
602.05
675.23
Diffa
33,642
42,172
15
16
862.62
1,081.33
Dosso
237,771
226,361
381
256
6,096.69
5,804.13
Maradi
354,552
276,105
397
581
9,091.08
7,079.62
Niamey
141,854
150,555
76
93
3,637.28
3,860.38
Tahoua
300,957
334,574
321
547
7,716.85
8,578.82
Tillabéry
256,765
267,352
321
419
6,583.72
6,855.18
Zinder
416,588
428,548
491
350
10,681.74
10,988.41
Total
1,765,609
1,752,001 2,016
2,315
45,272.03
44,923.10
Source: Ministry of Health weekly report on diseases surveillance, September 2018
Output 1.2: By 2018, targeted community health workers (male and female) offer a
simplified package of evidence-based quality, high impact preventive, promotional and
curative interventions for maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health and support
improved demand for services
Key milestones were reached to institutionalize community health and consolidate
achievements for the integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illnesses.
With USAID and UNICEF support, the Niger's roadmap to accelerate community health
institutionalization was launched at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care in October
2018. UNICEF facilitated the National Coordination Committee which was set up in 2017 and
became functional in 2018, thus improving synergy among community health interventions. A
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