Last Updated: 02/10/2025
Rapid Access Expansion 2015 programme (RAcE 2015)
Objectives
RAcE 2015 aims to improve access to and the quality of community-level management of childhood malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea in Niger state, Nigeria, building on existing community-based health interventions, such as integrated community case management.
The intention is that the project will provide basic healthcare by 2016 to over 161,973 children under five in hard to reach areas of selected six local government areas of Niger State. ICCM is intended to increase healthcare access with trained community care givers who can treat common ailments, serve as an access point into the existing healthcare system, and provide continuity of care to these underserved areas.
Despite Nigeria’s progress in improving health indicators, the decrease in child mortality falls short of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG4). RAcE 2015 will contribute to life-saving preventive and curative childhood health interventions that are key to reducing child mortality and meeting this goal.
The Rapid Access Expansion 2015 project, or RAcE 2015, will scale up the community level management of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea. It will build upon existing community-based health interventions and expand coverage through evidence-based, high impact and cost-effective interventions such as integrated community case management (ICCM).
RAcE 2015 builds on existing ICCM structures in Nigeria and will expand the scope and improve the effectiveness of basic healthcare in rural and peripheral urban areas. It will increase the coverage of diagnostic, treatment and referral services through capacity training and operational support to health workers, communities and ministries of health at state and national levels.
Nov 2013 — Dec 2017
$4.98M
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