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Table 1 Protect prevent and treat interventions considered for primary outcome indictors

From: Community and District Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES): a complex district-level management intervention to improve child survival in Uganda: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

 

Protect by children establishing good health practices from birth

Prevent children becoming ill from malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea

Treat children who are ill with malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea with appropriate treatment

Acute respiratory infection

1. Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months

1. Vaccines: measles, Hib. PCV

1. Improved care seeking and referral

2. Adequate complementary feeding

2. Use of LLINs

2. Timely appropriate case management at health facility and community level

3. Vitamin A supplementation

3. Hand washing with soap

3. Availability of key supplies: ACTs, RDTs, ORS, zinc, antibiotics

Diarrhea

4. Safe drinking water

4. Continued feeding (including breastfeeding)

5. Improved sanitation

6. (Reduced household pollution)

7. HIV prevention

Malaria/Fever

8. (Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV- infected exposed children as HIV prevention)

9. Intermittent presumptive treatment

  1. ACT HiB Haemophilus influenzae type b, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, LLIN long-lasting insecticidal nets, ORS oral rehydration solution, PCV pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, RDTs rapid diagnostic tests