The integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) is a healthcare strategy developed by UNICEF and the World Health Organization in 1992 with the aim of prevention, early detection and treatment of childhood disease killers. IMCI seeks to reduce childhood mortality by improving family and community practices for the home management of illness and by improving case management skills of health workers and the health system at large.

Action for Family Health (Acción por la Salud Familiar) is a project developed by CMMB and its partner, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to scale up IMCI and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in five Latin American and Caribbean countries by organizing, training and leveraging the vast network of Catholic hospitals, clinics, missions, churches, universities and other community and faith-based organizations to promote optimal child and family health. The Foundation has made a grant of $400,000 to the Catholic Medical Mission Board to support this project and the partnership with PAHO. Launched in Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic in the fall of 2002, Action for Family Health is operating with the complete cooperation and endorsement of the Ministries of Health of every participating country. Under this project, activities are underway in 267 community sites and 385 health care facilities with an estimated target population of 446,000 children under five years of age. To date 5,185 individuals have received training and 125,479 children have been seen at the health care facilities.

Working in partnership with CMMB, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Latin America and Canada commercial operation is also donating 10,000 vials of injectable penicillin and 50,000 bottles of pediatric suspension amoxicillin. The products ($210,000 at wholesale value) were to be delivered to sites in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, and Haiti in the fall of 2006.