About the Group

The International Child Health Review Collaboration is a multicentre project to deliver the evidence basis behind World Health Organisation guidelines for use by paediatric doctors, nurses and other child health workers in Developing Countries.

The aim of the project is to produce concise and reproducible systematic reviews of the guidance contained in the publication:

WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the Management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources

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The collaboration is between:

• Centre for International Child Health, Melbourne University, Australia,


• University of Edinburgh, Scotland,


• Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya,


• Aga Khan University, Pakistan.


• Institute of Child Health Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy


• University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi


• Capital Institute of Paediatrics, Beijing


• University of Western Australia, Australia

The World Health Organisation Child and Adolescent Health and Development website is accessible here: http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/