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In many areas of Pastoralists children have to walk for hours to the nearest health clinic, which is often no more than one room with few drugs and no trained staff. Poor health infrastructure combined with high rates of preventable diseases and malnutrition means that one in seven children in Pastoralists communities die before their fifth birthday.
CUP helps children survive in the face of some of the most adverse conditions in the world. Our focus is maternal, new-born and child survival and we provide drugs, equipment, training and other support to government health centers, deliver vaccinations, and provide care to children who are malnourished. We also run programmes in hard to access areas with no health clinics that train community health workers to identify and treat the three main killers of children under-five; malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea, reducing the need for children to travel long distances to the nearest health center.
The primary health care specific objectives include;
- Improve availability of and access to basic packages of health care services for pastoralists communities, with a special focus on vulnerable groups such as women and children, through mobile clinics or strengthening of existing services, as well as through the promotion of health-seeking behavior.
- Increase Child care and maternal health services in the targeted facilities of operation in the community
- Improve health information management system to ensure availability of reliable data on the health status of the population, including on HIV/AIDS.
- Ensure availability of health education material on prevention of targeted diseases (malaria, TB, AWD, HIV/AIDS).