Health

Plan's goal: providing the tools, training, and resources for communities to raise healthy children

Plan's child-centered and community-based health programs help save thousands of girls' and boys' lives every year. With community-level initiatives that include immunization, child nutrition and hygiene promotion, Plan's programs are designed to strengthen community-based health systems. 

Particular emphasis is given to the five main causes of death among children under the age of five: malaria, diarrhea, acute respiratory diseases, malnutrition and measles.

Plan uses a holistic, integrated approach to improving child health:

• Improving the health of children under five 
• School-based health and nutrition programs
• Early childhood care and development work
• Reproductive health and family planning
• Sexual health, including HIV
• Preventing and controlling infectious diseases

How does your support help?

By supporting our health programs, you are helping improve the health and survival of pregnant women and at-risk children in the neediest of countries through high quality, low-cost and sustainable health measures:

• Childhood immunizations against the six deadliest childhood diseases: measles, tuberculosis, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis;
• Qualified health care for the mother before, during and after childbirth, as well as needed health education, and training for traditional, local midwives;
• Emergency and supplemental feeding for malnourished children, and regular checkups to monitor growth;
• Clinical management of childhood illnesses, such as diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria;
• HIV/AIDS prevention, and much more.