| Improved Community Health Care Services (ICHCS) |
Goal:
The goal of this programme is to ensure the delivery of affordable and qualitative health care services to young people, children and women in the rural areas.
Strategies:
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Establish Multi-purpose Clinics for the treatment of women and children’s diseases in the rural areas.
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Provide family planning and sexual/reproductive health services to youths and women.
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Provide free health care services to children and women from poor families.
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Build the capacities of traditional birth attendants and health officers at the primary health centers in handling emergencies and pregnancy related complications.
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Establish and sponsor a network of health volunteers and care givers.
Recent Projects
STOP MALARIA: SAVE MORE LIVES!
According to US President, Barrack Obama, malaria is a disease that doesn’t have to take lives. That therefore accounts for why on the day of his inauguration, he declared his to "step up US focus on prevention and treatment of malaria around the world" in order to "rid the world of death from a disease that doesn't have to take lives." ... Learn More |
AFRYDEF to mobilize 1 million signatures in support of a Bill!
On May 17, 2009, AFRYDEF kicked off a campaign aimed at proposing a Bill to be signed into Law for the Imo State Government to restrain all Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) and all Health workers at the Primary Health Centers from attending to pregnant women in the rural communities without conducting HIV/AIDS screening tests on them.
We, in AFRYDEF are determined to sponsor this Bill to its logical conclusion, having been convinced that, when signed into law, it would become an instrument for saving the lives of Imo people who would have contracted the virus through and during child delivery by these traditional birth attendants and health workers.... Learn More |
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