Health
Working through trusted local partner organizations, ChildFund supports communities as well as local and national health systems to address children’s health needs from before birth to young adulthood.
A lifetime of good health begins in childhood.
Achieving our goal of improved health among children and their families means working with our local partners to strengthen community-based services, promote healthy behaviors and foster resilient health systems that sustain those health gains beyond any funding cycle.
Poor health is both a cause and consequence of poverty. Children in low-resource settings are especially vulnerable, facing preventable disease, stunted growth and their lifelong effects at alarming rates. The leading drivers include inadequate care, malnutrition, lack of clean water and sanitation, limited health knowledge and stigma. ChildFund addresses them all together, because treating any one factor in isolation doesn't work.
Our health programs encompass
- maternal and child health, supporting safe pregnancy and birth as well as healthy early childhood
- water, sanitation and hygiene, the foundation for every other health outcome
- nutrition, especially during critical periods of children’s growth and development
- reproductive health, so adolescents and young people can make informed decisions about health and access the services they need
- infectious disease, including malaria and tuberculosis.
Our locally led approaches address the conditions that most directly shape whether children survive, thrive and reach their potential. Health investment is economic investment.
We used to worry so much about water, but now that burden has been lifted.
Delivering Health Care in Rural Uganda
Access to health care can be a challenge in rural communities in Uganda. When health facilities are far away from families, ChildFund brings mobile clinics to the communities that need them most.
Contact
Russell Dowling
Senior Health Advisor
RDowling@ChildFund.org | LinkedIn