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Programs

Maternal Health and Childcare

Having registered in 2012, the organization has expertise in anaesthesia and safe surgery, maternal health, specifically training, development and roll-out of digital apps and support for medical equipment and anaesthesia, including UAMs. CPHD has trained over 70 anesthetists in its safe surgery programme in over 12 counties including counties in Arid and semi rid areas. In Siaya county, its intervention increased C-section rate from 3.2% to 4.9% within one year by opening one CEmONC site and supporting equipment and quality improvement.

CPAP for children

Pneumonia is the number one killer of children under 5 years. Every year, 2 million children under the age of 5 die globally due to acute respiratory infections. The CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) is a low-technology device that helps babies breathe easily, and gives caregivers the crucial time window to arrange for advanced care when needed.

Ultrasound Training

The East African Health Worker Training program was conceived to complement GE Foundation’s donation program in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The program team realized that many of the donated equipment was not being put to optimal use mainly due to lack of user knowledge.


Critical Care

Critical Care

Critical care units in Sub-Saharan Africa are in need of rescue. Starting from increasing the number of units to equipping the units, from increasing the number of staff to ensuring the staff have the skills.


CITIESRISE

CITIESRISE

According to World Health Organization, mental health is ‘a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, copes with the normal stresses of life, works productively and fruitfully, and makes a contribution to her or his community’. Every day, half a billion people suffer from depression across the world, with associated economic, social, and educational impacts. Every 40 seconds, someone in the world takes his or her own life, producing a global tally of more than 800,000 suicides per year and Mental illness is a chronic disease of the young, with over 75% of mental illnesses showing by age 24.

To fast-track achievement in the society that cuts across sectors and groups, citiesRISE, global platform through Centre for Public Health and Development aims to improve mental health and wellbeing by connecting leading mental health practitioners and community members to drive change through city and community-based alliances and initiatives, adoption of evidence-based strategies, Scaling up proven tools and approaches through helping communities learn from each other and working with innovations that bring services to where people are. Broadly this is through Local collective action, focusing on young people and youth leadership and through innovation and acceleration and ultimately nurturing the self, space and society as critical dimensions of human well-being.


Social Enterprises

Social Enterprises

Medical equipment management

An ill-maintained incubator can kill an infant; a malfunctioning anesthesia machine can maim or kill mothers, babies, children, or any other patient for that matter while an incorrectly calibrated ventilator can cost lives. Medical technology is supposed to be life-saving.

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Access to oxygen

The World Health Organization recommends oxygen as an essential drug. It is a crucial component of essential emergency healthcare and is critical to prevent the deaths of the majority of the mothers and newborns dying in the region. Yet, oxygen is rarely available in health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa once you move out of cities.

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Pharmacy for poor

The majority of medicines available in the market in Africa are counterfeit. People from the lower-income sector buy and take these medicines without any hesitation. On top of that, they most often either reuse old prescriptions or depend on the pharmacist to advise them on the path of treatment. The alternatives are either time-consuming or expensive.


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