Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival-III (BASICS-III)

Provinces	Balkh, Bamyan, Ghazni, Hirat, Jawzjan, Kabul, Nangarhar, Paktika, Paktya, Takhar
Program	Health (Increasing access of women and children to quality basic health services)
Dates	September 2007 - September 2010
Partner	The Partnership for Child Health Care, Inc.
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BASICS-III is a global program that supports the sustainable reduction of under-five mortality.  In Afghanistan, BASICS-III supports an ambitious program to improve the effectiveness and accessibility of child health, nutrition, and related pediatric services through the development and integrated implementation of high impact interventions to prevent and reduce illness, mortality and malnutrition among Afghan children under five. BASICS/Afghanistan builds upon the successes of the HSSP and Tech-Serve projects to focus central, provincial, and community levels of the health system to attain and sustain decreased infant and child mortality. 

In collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health Department of Child and Adolescent Health, BASICS has provided assistance in the development of a Child and Adolescent Health Policy, a Child Health Strategy, an Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategy, a Public Nutrition Policy and Strategy, and a strategic framework for implementing the policies. Additionally, BASICS/Afghanistan works closely with NGOs in the 13 USAID-supported provinces  to improve and sustain their ability to deliver the child health components of the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) including the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), child nutrition, malaria, and immunization across the continuum of care.

All Health activities