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The South African Child Health Priorities Association invites you to attend the 2nd PRIORITIES IN CHILD HEALTH conference to be held at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Parktown, Johannesburg from 4–5 December 2008.
This meeting follows on the highly successful inaugural Child Health Priorities Conference (CHPC) held in Durban in December 2007. That meeting, sponsored by UNICEF, was characterised by a series of stimulating and thought-provoking plenary, round table, and research presentation sessions.
It was attended by over 140 participants representing amongst others: doctors, nurses, and other practitioners within the health service; academics; national, provincial and local health departments; international and national child health related organisations; and non-governmental organisations.
Similar to the 1st Child Health Priorities conference, the forthcoming meeting will focus on presenting new research and current evidence that informs child health practice in South Africa. The programme will include plenary and abstract driven sessions on:
· Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in South Africa: a review of the implementation of some key strategies to reduce poverty, hunger and child mortality
· PMTCT, HAART and the health system
· Preventing and managing child malnutrition
· Advances and new developments in child health programme delivery (including immunisation, IMCI, the new Road to Health card)
· Human resources for child health
· Improving the quality of child health care
· Developing local capacity to support child health
· Community interventions for child health
· The Children’s Act and new child care legislation
The South African Child Health Priorities Association will host the conference, which will bring together expert South African speakers.
The conference has been made possible by support from UNICEF.