Program areas at Intrahealth International
Hiv and other infectious diseases - committed to the vision of an aids-free generation, Intrahealth collaborates with health care leaders, health workers, and communities to increase access to hiv/aids prevention, treatment, and care services. This year, 511,305 people received hiv counseling and testing and 98,648 hiv-positive individuals were provided with antiretroviral treatment through programs supported by Intrahealth.
Health systems strengthening - partnering globally with more than 1,223 entities, including governments, non-governmental organizations (ngos), the private sector, and civil society, we bring context-specific, state-of-the-art technical assistance and capacity building to strengthen the performance of local organizations, health workers and the health systems in which they work. Intrahealth offers programs that increase the capacity of health worker training schools to produce more graduates, strengthen information and management systems to better support health workers on the job, and improve the quality of primary health care delivered to the last mile. This year, Intrahealth reached over 148,888 health workers around the world with needed support.
Family planning and reproductive health/maternal, newborn, and child health - every day, approximately 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Each year, nearly 3 million babies die in their first month of life. Further, as many as 222 million women globally have unmet need for family planning. Intrahealth applies its more than 40 years of experience and expertise working in over 100 countries to improve family planning and maternal and child health programs. This year, Intrahealth initiated 590,670 new contraceptive users and offered 1,324,591 years of protection from unwanted pregnancy to couples through contraceptives and more than 502,599 women gave birth in a facility where Intrahealth has trained providers.