Components of CHD

Child Health Days (CHDs) were introduced as a health-promoting strategy, initiated in Eastern and Southern Africa as an innovative way of delivering such a package free to all eligible children and their mothers.

Reaching even the most under-served areas and targeting every child in a community, Child Health Days deliver cost-effective healthcare.

As a ‘one stop shop’, children receive vitamin A supplements to boost immunity and prevent blindness; de-worming tablets to treat parasitic infections and the iron-deficiency anemia they can cause; routine immunization; monitoring for nutritional status; and insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria. Other interventions may be added (often measles vaccination, sometimes hepatitis B). Women of child-bearing age receive tetanus toxide vaccination.

Target groups and frequency of Child Health Days.