INTRAHEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC

We are committed to helping countries provide the family planning and reproductive health services their communities need. And we know that health workers are one of the keys to making this happen.

From helping couples space or limit pregnancies to helping adolescents plan their futures, health workers have the power to provide a full range of services for clients at any stage of their reproductive lives. Right now, there are more than 200 million women worldwide who want to avoid pregnancy, but aren’t using effective methods of contraception to prevent it. Together, we we’re working to change that.

Our key approaches include:

Expanding the roles of health workers to deliver appropriate family planning services, supported by policy changes as necessary.

Increasing the range of available family planning methods at all levels of the health system.

Strengthening the planning, information, education, management, and supply-chain systems.

Enabling health workers to integrate family planning with other services such as for immunization, postabortion care, obstetric fistula, and HIV.

Improving the performance of health workers, organizations, and systems by applying IntraHealth’s

Performance Improvement and Optimizing Performance and Quality tools.

Developing innovative approaches to education and training, including eHealth and mHealth applications.

Enhancing community-based distribution and referral systems between health workers at different levels of care, including promoting use of technology for improved communication.

Expanding access for young people through policy reform, youth-friendly services, and empowering youth as advocates and ambassadors

Engaging and educating communities and leaders through advocacy, public campaigns, social media, and open dialogues.

IntraHealth is a leader in developing and implementing effective new strategies that save women's and children's lives. Our key approaches include:

Improving the performance of health workers as they care for women and newborns, including by:
Integrating services
Strengthening basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care
Building health workers' skills in key interventions, such as active management of the third stage of labor
Improving referral systems

Building partnerships between health workers and communities to improve quality of care.

Using mobile phones, eLearning, and other technologies to improve maternal, newborn, and child health care.

Training health workers to recognize obstructed labor and prevent obstetric fistula.

Training health workers to recognize neonatal signs of distress and refer clients as necessary for immediate care and treatment.

Integrating prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission into all aspects of maternal, newborn, and child health care.

Training health workers in the treatment of major causes of illness and death of children under five, including malaria, acute respiratory infections, diarrheal disease, and malnutrition

Advocating for and helping countries develop policies that enable frontline health workers to offer promotive, preventive, curative, and palliative primary health care.

IntraHealth International offers technical assistance that helps countries build resilient, prepared health systems; prevent, detect, and respond to pandemic influenza and other threats; and develop strong local technical and management capacity to sustain systems for the long haul. We act across local, national, and global levels to prepare communities and advance global health security.

Infectious diseases can put everyone at risk, including health workers. That’s why we work to make sure frontline health workers are armed with the most up-to-date training, the right tools for the situation, and the technology they need to stay connected and informed as they combat malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, MERS, Zika, and more. That’s how the health workers we all rely on can keep providing care where we need it most—and even quash epidemics before they start.

Our key approaches include:

Boosting countries’ resilience to infectious diseases by strengthening health systems and preparing health workers to address emerging threats

Designing communication systems that help government officials stay in touch with frontline health workers during crises and beyond to more quickly respond to emerging health threats

Training community and facility-based health workers and laboratory technicians to treat and diagnose malaria and other infectious diseases

Integrating malaria program activities into antenatal care and HIV/AIDS treatment programs to strengthen existing services and reach vulnerable populations

Helping health facilities and providers to collect service statistics and to use those data for better decision-making

Strengthening preservice and inservice training to ensure health workers have the knowledge and skills they need to address the most urgent and common health needs of the communities they serve

Cancer kills more people in low- and middle-income countries than HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. As people all over the world live longer than ever, this and other noncommunicable diseases—including not only cancer, but also obesity-related illnesses, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and mental illness—have become the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.

That’s why we help countries build resilient health systems and strong health workforces that are prepared to meet this challenge. We work with our partner countries to establish the powerful data, effective policies, and well-trained health workers they need to prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases of all kinds.

Our key approaches include:

Building strong primary health care teams to prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases

Strengthening data for decision-making systems

Using mobile technology to connect government officials and frontline health workers for real-time communication

Healthy people need healthy food systems. That’s why we promote food security around the world and help health workers provide the guidance and services their communities need to stay nourished and healthy.

Our key approaches include:

Supporting advocacy and policy efforts on nutrition, health, and food security issues

Promoting evidence-based maternal, neonatal, and child health practices in the first 1,000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s second birthday

Incorporating gender-equitable and culturally sensitive approaches that empower women to improve their health and the health of their children

Linking HIV positive individuals and families with nutrition education and support

Improving the quality of essential community services, such as Village Health and Nutrition Days in India

Providing support for improved dietary diversity, household budgeting, backyard gardening, and essential hygiene practices