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The Partnership for Child Development (PCD), formed in 1992, is an organisation committed to improving the education, health and nutrition of school-age children and youth in low income countries. PCD is based within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, in the Faculty of Medicine, at London’s Imperial College. The organisation helps countries and international agencies turn the findings of evidence based research into national interventions that benefit millions of children around the world. Healthy children learn better and school health and nutrition programming is recognised to improve not only children’s health and nutrition, but also their education and life choices; both in the short and longer term.
As a knowledge institution, the PCD both creates and shares information. For more than 10 years its operational research has shown how interventions can be implemented and evaluated at the country level, for example enabling mass treatment of children for common infections such as hookworms and bilharzia. |
The Partnership also facilitates the sharing of knowledge between academia, governments and agencies at both national and international level, through web sites, mail lists and a global network of partners. In recent years, a major focus of this work has been assisting educators and health professionals to work together to help schools respond to the threat that HIV/AIDS poses to education, health and poverty alleviation.
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The Partnership also facilitates the sharing of knowledge between academia, governments and agencies at both national and international level, through web sites, mail lists and a global network of partners. In recent years, a major focus of this work has been assisting educators and health professionals to work together to help schools respond to the threat that HIV/AIDS poses to education, health and poverty alleviation.
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