Women and Children's Health

Saving Lives

Project HOPE employs effective strategies to produce sustainable improvements in the health of women and children around the world. Strategies include: educating parents about measures that they can take at home to prevent the most common causes of child illness and promoting healthy behaviors such as hand washing, infant feeding and timely health care seeking; training community-level health workers and health professionals to provide quality care to women and children; upgrading health facilities through the provision of equipment and essential drugs; and providing support to Ministries of Health at the local and national levels. This helps ensure that families are able to maintain healthy lifestyles at home; that they seek life-saving services for their children and that quality information and services are available.

The Health of Women and Children Unit focuses on interventions in control of communicable diseases, infant feeding/nutrition/micronutrients, acute respiratory infections, control of diarrheal diseases, malaria control and prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, maternal health/safe motherhood, reproductive health (including family planning, and adolescent health), neonatal health, school health and nutrition, health education and prevention (cervical and breast cancer, diabetes).

Health of Women and Children Unit by Technical Areas

• Nutrition: immediate and exclusive breastfeeding, Vitamin A, Iron Folate, and other micronutrients, complementary feeding, growth monitoring and promotion; malnutrition prevention and recuperation
• Control of Communicable Diseases: Immunization promotion
• Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CDD)
• Vector Borne disease control: malaria control and prevention
• Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI and C-IMCI)
• Maternal Health: Safe motherhood, Pregnancy and Post natal care
• Reproductive Health (including family planning, child spacing, adolescent reproductive health)
• School health and nutrition
• Women’s health: breast and cervical cancer