GLOBAL HEALTH

CHF’s work in health focuses on increasing vulnerable households’ access to health and social services. As with the bulk of CHF’s work, our work in health strengthens local structures, institutions, and communities to better care, treat, and prevent illness. In all that we do, our aim is to address vulnerabilities and build the resilience of vulnerable people through a holistic, integrated approach that enables positive living and health-seeking behavior. CHF has developed an integrated approach to health which couples our existing organizational strengths of community mobilization, economic development, infrastructure development, governance, capacity building, water and sanitation, and urban development with health.

CHF’s health work focuses on:

• Building the capacity of community based organizations that provide health services to vulnerable households.
• Increasing access to prevention, care, treatment, and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS, affected by HIV, or those at risk of contracting HIV.
• Promoting improved hygiene and sanitation by ensuring access to clean water, healthy sanitation, and community level behavior change.
• Preventing Malaria through insecticide treated net distribution and increased community awareness.
• Preventing gender based violence through community mobilization and education of key service providers.
• Promoting sustainable approaches that help vulnerable people to work their way out of poverty and address their health needs. This may be workforce training for child-headed households or small scale entrepreneurial development.

Read the CHF Health Fact Sheet for more information on our health programming areas.

CHF's work in Global Health emcompasses the following areas:

• Avian Flu
• Gender
• HIV/AIDS
• Malaria
• Psychosocial support
• Water, sanitation and hygiene