Poor Adherence to the Integrated Community Case Management of Newborn and Child Illness Protocol in Rural Ethiopia.

Ethiopia has adopted the Integrated Community Case Management of Newborn and Child Illness (iCMNCI) strategy to expand access to neonatal and child health services. This study assessed compliance with the iCMNCI case management protocol at the primary care settings. A descriptive cross-sectional assessment was conducted in eight districts of Benishangul-Gumuz Region from April to December 2019, and 1,217 sick children aged 2 to 59 months and 43 sick young infants aged 0 to 2 months who sought clinical consultation at the 236 health posts were selected purposively.

Illness recognition, home care, and care-seeking for sick infants less than two months of age in Shebedino District, Sidama Zone, Ethiopia.

Background: The incidence of newborn and young infant health danger signs is unknown in Ethiopia. Neverthe- less, experience shows that care-seeking is far lower than conservative morbidity estimates would project.

Objectives: To examine illness recognition, home care, decision-making, and care-seeking for sick infants less than two months of age in Shebedino District, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region in 2011.

Utilization of integrated community case management services in three regions in Ethiopia after two years of implementation.

Background: The integrated community case management (iCCM) strategy has brought fully integrated treatment for sick children to the community in Ethiopia since 2010.

Objectives: To describe patterns of use of iCCM services in 31 woredas (districts) in three regions of Ethiopia.

Methods: We analyzed all 60,452 encounters (58,341 [98.