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 2. Community case management policy and implementation status among countries, by target health condition, 2009–2010
| Target and scale of implementation | No. of countries with |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Official policy | Permissive policy | No policy | |
| Diarrhoea (n = 59 countries) | |||
| National programme (n = 9) | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Subnational programme (n = 40) | 20 | 17 | 3 |
| District project (n = 1) | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| No implementation (n = 9) | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Malaria (n = 53 countries) | |||
| National programme (n = 25) | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| Subnational programme (n = 11) | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| District project (n = 5) | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| No implementation (n = 12) | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Pneumonia (n = 59 countries) | |||
| National programme (n = 13) | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| Subnational programme (n = 15) | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| District project (n = 6) | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| No Implementation (n = 25) | 3 | 2 | 20 |
| Neonatal infections (n = 59 countries) | |||
| National programme (n = 1) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Subnational programme (n = 7) | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| District project (n = 3) | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| No implementation (n = 48) | 2 | 1 | 45 |