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Central Dry Zone Program to Promote Primary Health Care
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AMDA-MINDS is currently implementing a set of projects
to promote primary health, especially for maternal and
child health in Meiktila, Nyaung Oo and Pakokku townships
in the central dry zone. This program aims at bridging
communities and local health departments, improving the
quality of basic health services, assisting communities
in capacity building in primary health, based on the government's
rural health development plans.
The activities includes:
1) construction/renovation of basic health facilities,
2) community-based clinic services by medical and health
personnel in collaboration with community health volunteers,
3) participatory nutrition program for under/malnourished
children under five and their mothers,
4) health and hygiene education,
5) capacity building of medical personnel, community health
workers, volunteers and community members, and
6) self-help emergency referral and support through community
health fund.
In Meiktila, "health education and microfinance" are
also carried out to help rural households to improve
their living condition through a comprehensive approach
providing mixed activities of health education, microfinance,
and vocational training. Currently, 1,500 women from
36 villages benefit from this project. |
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Program in Kokang Special Region No. 1 |
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AMDA-MINDS presently carries out several activities to
help improve health conditions of the people in Kokang
Special Region No. 1 (KSR1) of Northern Shan State, a
mountainous territory bordering to China. A program focus
is placed on fulfillment of basic health needs of mothers
and children especially those among ethnic minorities.
The project has engaged in capacity building of health
volunteers and assistance to formulation and conducting
of self-help activities of mothers' groups. Nutrition,
sanitation, early childhood, reproductive health, and
communicable diseases are those among main themes of community
health activities. The program also assists local communities
in schooling, construction of small infrastructures such
as health posts, schools, community roads, gravity flow
water supply systems, and hygiene and sanitation facilities,
and income generation.
This program is an integral part of local and international
efforts to KFR's recovery from the ban of poppy
cultivation in 2002.
The above activities come under the World Food Program
schemes and are categorized as follows: Mother and Child
Nutrition Program (MCN), School Program (SP), Small-scale
infrastructure Program (SIP), and Small-scale Economic
and Income Generation Program (SEIGP). |
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Other Programs |
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somewhat added diversity to the AMDA's activities in the
country: Promotion of Oriental and Traditional Medicine;
Management of AMDA Center for Training; Nutritional Support
for Indoor Patients at the Pediatric Ward of Meiktila
District Hospital; and Behavior Change and Communication
for Prevention of HIV/AIDS. |
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