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    Essential Newborn Care Corps

    The Essential Newborn Care Corps explores how training and rebranding traditional birth attendants as maternal newborn health promoters in Sierra Leone can fulfill important community health roles.

    Photo: Concern Worldwide.
    Photo: Concern Worldwide.

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    This health centre in Tahoua, Niger, which serves over 50 rural villages, has been using the CMAM Surge approach since 2016 to help respond to increases in their malnutrition caseloads. Photo: Darren Vaughan / Concern Worldwide.
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    The CMAM Surge Approach

    An overview of Concern's CMAM Surge Approach with many of the key knowledge products and resources in English and French.

    Concern’s outreach nutrition programme reaches communities who would otherwise have no access to health care. Clinics are held wherever possible, here under the shade of an acacia tree in Sahgel, Chalbi District in Marsabit, Kenya. Photo: Gideon Mendel.
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    Evaluations of the CMAM Surge Approach

    This page details the learning and evaluations from CMAM Surge programmes in Kenya, Niger and Ethiopia.

    Waiting area at Digital Booth - Concern Bangladesh in collaboration with local partners, have launched New Digital Booths in Dhaka, for screening and testing of Covid-19.
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    Covid-19 Research

    This page shows the results of research carried out by Concern showing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the poorest people in our programme countries.

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