Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable - Unicef

Department of Health
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Integrated
management
of childhood
illnesses
programme
The IMCI programme
seeks to provide services
that will promote
child well-being
through monitoring
and promoting; that
will prevent illness (e.g.
through immunisations);
and which will cure and
rehabilitate ill children.
It provides for the
delivery of services and
regulation of standard
case management of
priority child health
conditions in accordance
with protocols,
including pneumonia,
diarrhoea, fever and
malnutrition, HIV/
AIDS and TB, anaemia
and micronutrient
deficiencies, intestinal
parasite control,
identification and
treatment of ear
conditions and asthma
as well as childhood
illnesses such as
measles.
Targeted beneficiaries
Children under the age
of six
Public sector clinics
and hospitals
Each clinic is
supposed to have two
staff members trained
on the IMCI protocol
and should be
subject to six-monthly
assessments of quality
of care.
Extended
programme
on
immunisation
The programme
provides vaccinations/
immunisations to
prevent measles,
tuberculosis, tetanus,
diphtheria, Rotavirus and
Pneumococcal diseases.
Targeted beneficiaries
All children between
birth and 12 years of
age
All infants and children
that are HIV+
All primary healthcare
facilities
The immunisation
schedule as at 1 April
2009 was as follows:
and oral polio vaccine;
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