Program areas at HealthRight International
Ukrainesince 2005, Healthright has been working in ukraine, providing access to vital health and psychosocial services for vulnerable populations and building local capacity for successful social support initiatives and sustainability of projects. Healthright works closely with the ukrainian foundation for public health (ufph) - a local ngo founded by Healthright in 2008 - to provide marginalized women and girls, at-risk and hiv positive adolescents, young people in conflict with the law, and survivors of gender-based violence (gbv) and their partners access health and social services. Since 2014, in response to the crisis caused by the armed conflict in eastern ukraine, Healthright has been providing critical services for internally displaced persons (idps) and survivors of torture among ukrainian military and civilians. Healthright adapted and expanded its programming to address the basic health and protection needs of families in response to the country-wide conflict beginning in february 2022.
Human rights clinicsince its founding in 1993, the human rights clinic (hrc) has been committed to assisting immigrant survivors of torture and abuse in the new york metro area to secure freedom from persecution and pursue healthy, productive lives. The hrc trains and deploys a network of new york-based volunteer medical and mental health professionals to provide expert forensic evaluations documenting the physical and psychological scars of persecution for survivors' applications for asylum or other immigration relief. Hrc connects survivors to social, medical, and mental health services in their communities through our case management program.
Kenyahealthright has been partnering with local stakeholders to build health system capacity in kenya since 2006. Healthright kenya has implemented a range of capacity building initiatives across kenya to strengthen community and public health system capacity that serve marginalized communities. Projects focused on improving maternal and child health outcomes in informal, urban settings; increasing access to reproductive health and family planning services in the rural asal and north rift regions; preventing gender-based violence among at-risk adolescents in kenya's north rift; and introducing innovative hiv prevention interventions in eastern kenya.
Ugandahealthright's peter c alderman program for global mental has implemented programs that build local capacity to address maternal mental health and mental health for refugees and survivors of violence across four program sites in uganda. In close collaboration with local government and civil society partners, Healthright's programs have strengthened community-based mental health services in refugee settlemetns, established systems for stepped mental health care, and improved maternal mental health.