INTRODUCTION
Family health program is a public health and
development organization dedicated to improving living standards of the world’s
most vulnerable people. Family health programmes has 2,500 staff conducting research
and implementing programmes in fifty five countries. It endervours to advance
public health initiatives and to improve local capacity to address developed problems.
Since 1971, family health programme has
been a global leader in family planning and reproductive health after 1986,
family health programmes became a leader in the worldwide responds to HIV AIDS.
Family health programmes also focuses
its interest and address problems of malaria, tuberculosis and other infections
and chronic diseases.
Partnership of FHP include:
international agencies government, foundations, research institutions and
individual donors. United State of America is also one of the nations
partnering with family health programmes.
BRIEF HISTORY
Family health programmes grow from contraceptive
research project which begun at the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in 1971. The initial grant from the US Agency for international development (USAID)
helped developed the international fertility research program which later
became an independent, non-profit organization in 1975. In 1982, this organization
international fertility research program changed its name to family health
international. Since the, family health international programmes expanded
beyond family planning into other areas of reproductive health research and
technical assistance
AREAS OF INTEREST
·
Family health
programmes investigate and implement effective ways to prevent sexually
transmitted diseases
·
Enhance the
quality of reproductive services.
·
In 1987, due to
much efforts and unquantifiable achievements recorded for their work in
preventing HIV/AIDS infection they where awarded USAID first five year
HIV.AIDS, prevention programmes in developing countries.
·
They were
receiving continuous funding from USAID. This funds enables the family health
international to manage some of the largest HIV/AIDS programmes in the world.
Other
important sources of funds are from centre for disease control and prevention,
national institution for health, United Kingdom Department for international
development and global funds to tight AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria.
Increasingly, other government,
private foundation and private sectors are partnering with family health
international to overcome health and development challenges.
INOVATIONS
Family health international programmes contributed to
a clinical trial called CAPRISA 004 which provided an important breakthrough in
the fight against HIV and genital herpes with a vaginal gel that significantly reduces
a woman’s risk of infection.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Areas of focus of family health
programmes include:
·
Family planning
·
Child and
maternal health
·
Infections
diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
·
Chronic
conditions such as cardiovascular diseases
·
Nutrition.
MODE OF OPERATION
Family health programmes works with government and
local communities to strengthens broaden health systems and create lasting
improvement in the lives of individuals and families.
The family health programmes is one of the leading public
health non-governmental programmes in reproductive health, HIV and AIDS
prevention, material and child health. The society for family health programmes
works in partnership with the federal and state government.
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