The USAID ASSIST Project is working with the Ministry of Health to increase access to quality health care with a focus on HIV/AIDS and Maternal Newborn and Child Health services through using a quality improvement (QI) collaborative approach. The “Improving treatment of childhood illnesses” initiative is supported by USAID ASSIST core funds in close collaboration with USAID ASSIST field project. It supports ten (10) child health collaborative sites in Gulu, Omoro and Nwoya districts, to improve management of the common and leading causes of mortality in children under-five years.

The change ideas provided in this package are a collection of specific actions (changes) which health facility QI teams have undertaken to improve the processes for better quality of child health services.

This package describes what the improvement teams did to improve vaccination, prevention, and treatment of newborn infections, pneumonia, and diarrhea. These change ideas have been successfully implemented in 10 health facilities in 3 districts in Uganda where the USAID ASSIST Project is providing technical support to the Ministry of Health (MOH) Uganda.