Despite significant advancements in Zambia’s healthcare, children remain at risk. Guided by our mission, our strategy places equal emphasis on the prevention and treatment of childhood illnesses. The preventive measures encompass vaccination, promoting exclusive breastfeeding, enhancing nutrition, and increasing access to safe water and sanitation, among other initiatives.Despite significant advancements in Zambia’s healthcare, children remain at risk. Guided by our mission, our strategy places equal emphasis on the prevention and treatment of childhood illnesses. The preventive measures encompass vaccination, promoting exclusive breastfeeding, enhancing nutrition, and increasing access to safe water and sanitation, among other initiatives.
Children represent hope and the future. They are precious, innocent, and beautiful. But children are also among the most vulnerable populations.
A2HealthZ programmes adhere to the Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation’s guidelines for the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI). This approach is tailored for use in outpatient clinical settings with limited diagnostic tools, medications, and for complex clinical procedures. We collaborate with local healthcare facilities to ensure they possess both the human resources and medical supplies needed to identify and treat mothers and children effectively. In local communities, we implement the integrated community case management approach (iCCM), which empowers community health workers (CHWs) through training, provisions, and supervision to diagnose and treat or refer common, but potentially deadly, illnesses. A2HealthZ-trained community health workers also engage with communities to educate on the signs that necessitate facility care and how to prevent illness.