Rwanda's CCM program is geared towards treating children under five.

The Improving Supply Chains for Community Case Management of Pneumonia and Other Common Diseases of Childhood (SC4CCM) project aims to demonstrate that supply chain constraints at the community level can be overcome, and that doing so may yield significant improvements in the effectiveness, scale, and impact of community case management (CCM).

In 2008 alone, 8.8 million children died before reaching their fifth birthday. Many of these deaths could have been prevented by low-cost prevention and treatment interventions. CCM is an approach designed to reach more of these children and reduce childhood mortality by treating common childhood illnesses at the community level

Supply chains that ensure a reliable supply of medicines to CHWs will be critical to treating children, like this boy in Malawi.

Anecdotal evidence suggests, however, that CCM of pneumonia and other illnesses that affect children is hampered by ineffective supply chains and inconsistent availability of good-quality medicines and basic health supplies. Without appropriate products on hand, programs fail, and children continue to die unnecessarily.