PACHAs Clinical and Advocacy Network (CAN)

We believe every child has the right to minimum core rights, including water, sanitation, primary education, basic healthcare and shelter.

We work with our colleagues in DHMT and development partners to move towards this aim for all children in Malawi by 2030.

Our methods include research to see where and what rights children are not able to access and to see what are the reasons for this, including local, national and international.

We believe health professionals have a role to play to advocate for children's right to health, see  a Framework for health professionals to advocate for children's rights

Our research and advocacy and interventions are bottom up i.e. it is driven by members of our association. 

If you would like to help us please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Table 1 Access to the determinants of health for Malawian children 

PACHA is supporting our colleagues, district by district to be agents for change and to help them address the underlying determinants of health in their district. We do this by supporting the collection of data on the determinants of health and with the provision of training on how to work with local partners to improve these.

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National Statistical Office of Malawi, Government of Malawi, UNICEF, USAID, Irish Aid, UNFPA, et al. Malawi DHS. 2016;

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