Community case management of childhood illnesses: policy and implementation in Countdown to 2015 countries
Alexandra de Sousa, Kathryn E Tiedje, Judith Recht, Ivana Bjelic & Davidson H Hamer
Volume 90, Number 3, March 2012, 183-190
Table 1. Community case management (CCM) policy and implementation status in 53 malaria-endemic countries, by number of health conditions covered, 2009–2010
| Status | No. (%) of the 53 countries with policy and/or implementation against |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four conditionsa | Three conditions | Two conditions | One condition | No condition | |
| Type of CCM policy | |||||
| Official | 2 (4) | 15 (28) | 10 (19) | 8 (15) | 18 (34) |
| Permissive | 1 (2) | 2 (4) | 11 (21) | 10 (19) | 29 (55) |
| None | NA | NA | NA | NA | 4 (8) |
| Type of implementation | |||||
| National programme | 1 (2) | 5 (9) | 7 (13) | 14 (26) | 26 (49) |
| Subnational programme | 2 (4) | 4 (8) | 14 (26) | 21(40) | 12 (23) |
| District project | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (9) | 5 (9) | 43 (81) |
| None | NA | NA | NA | NA | 4 (8) |
NA, not applicable.
a The four health conditions considered here are diarrhoea, malaria, pneumonia and neonatal infections.