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The goal of the Health Program is to improve the health status of vulnerable groups, especially women of childbearing age and children under five who live in geographically remote areas. Health programs focus on: • Strengthening health care systems (by building the skills of government and primary health care professionals) and contributing to health sector reform • Improving environmental and household health through the provision of clean water, and sanitation and hygiene promotion • Enhancing maternal and child health • Improving nutritional status
Medical Centre in Salamieh. All personnel at the Centre have had in-service training, improving the quality and effectiveness of health services in Syria. The Foundation promotes equitable health policies, financing mechanisms that contribute to sustaining service delivery, and the provision of basic services. It plays a key role in developing ways to enable poor communities, both rural and urban, to participate in setting health priorities. It provides possibilities for community members to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to protect and promote good health. Each of the program areas contributes directly or indirectly to decreasing the burden of new and re-emerging diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. To find out more about some of the specific projects that address health, click here.
An initiative of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A
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