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Child Survival
Where We Work
In over 30 countries across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, PSI promotes healthy behaviors by educating individuals about purifying drinking water in the home, practicing improved hygiene and offering treatment for diarrheal disease if a child falls ill. PSI’s programs ensure that a family has the tools to maintain the health of their children and empowers them to do so.
What We Do
PSI combines education to motivate healthy behavior with the provision of needed health products and services, which are attractively packaged and marketed for the local context. Local knowledge, attitudes and practices are integrated into the marketing and communications messages through ongoing behavioral research. PSI’s Child Survival products and communications messages are made available through various channels including:
- Commercial markets
- Community-based distribution
- Promotion through mass media and inter-personal communication (IPC)
- Partnerships with local NGOs and governments
- Targeted promotion through:
- Emergency relief (including cholera response)
- School programs
- Health clinic-based programs
- Integration with HIV/AIDS care programs
Who We Work With
PSI is proud to partner with a diverse group of governments, international and national implementing organizations, multilateral institutions, and the private sector to assure program success. 
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About Us
The Child Survival Department based in Washington, DC helps keep PSI at the forefront of diarrheal disease prevention and treatment programming through continuous improvement to the quality of existing interventions and technical assistance in creating new programs. Our team collects and distributes best practices, evaluation data, lessons learned and pilots new initiatives, ensuring that PSI platforms have access to the most current and relevant data and intervention strategies. The team also fosters and maintains key relationships within the broader international Child Survival and Safe Water communities.
Our Vision: As key partner to both local and donor governments and advocate for child survival issues and funding, PSI implements technically strong diarrhea disease prevention and treatment programs to improve the health of children around the world.
Our Mission: Improve child health by providing PSI country programs evidence-based technical support enabled by an ever expanding and diversified funding base and innovative knowledge management system that facilitates the sharing of lessons learned across PSI programs.
Our Team:
Megan Wilson, Program Manager, mwilson@psi.org
Cecilia Kwak, Technical Manager, ckwak@psi.org
Ashima Khanna, Senior Program Assistant, akhanna@psi.org
Justin Buszin, Safe Water Principle Investigator, jbuszin@psi.org
Megan Kays, Associate Researcher, mkays@psi.org
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Saving Each minute about 21 children under five, 29,000 each day, die from mainly preventable causes. Many of these unnecessary deaths in the developing world can be attributed to diarrheal disease, pneumonia, and malnutrition. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children in the world today, followed by the 17% of childhood deaths due to diarrheal disease. PSI’s Child Survival programs enable children around the world to thrive and lead longer, more productive lives. NEWS
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