Health
Throughout India people are struggling to defend their rights to healthy living conditions as well as access to health care.
Joining hands with these efforts AID supports:
Improving Services: Physicians and health workers serve in areas of need, model effective strategies and train others to replicate them.
Right to Health for All: Communities demand health services as a right and to make the public health system accountable to the people.
Nourishment: People campaign for rations, anganwadi, sustainable agriculture, land rights and other means to ensure right to food, critical to health.
Prevention: Resource persons promote healthy practices and early detection to prevent disease and reduce morbidity.
Protecting the Environment: People fight pollution and deforestation to safeguard their land, water and air.
46%
India's hungry children
1.2%
% GDP for Health
50000
People annually at AID partner JSS's rural hospital.