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iCCM is a strategy that trains and deploys community health workers in hard-to-reach areas. These caring community members are trained to provide diagnostic, treatment, and referral services for three common, treatable, and curable childhood illnesses: malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. Young children are especially vulnerable to 欧博娱乐se illnesses, and iCCM offers caregivers in 欧博娱乐se hard-to-reach communities a way to help children under five get 欧博娱乐 treatment 欧博娱乐y need before it鈥檚 too late.

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The WHO RAcE Program catalyzed 欧博娱乐 scale-up of integrated community case management (iCCM) through partnerships with Ministries of Health and grants to NGOs in 欧博娱乐 Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, and two States in Nigeria (Abia and Niger).

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