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Public Health

AIF Strategy

Guided by national priorities, AIF is rolling out a new generation of programs under its Public Health portfolio, with a focus on building community investment and ownership. The goal of the program is to reduce mortality and the burden of disease in impoverished and underserved communities by promoting and protecting healthy lifestyles.

The twin emphasis will be on accelerating health literacy, particularly about preventable and infectious diseases, and strengthening health systems for delivery of quality services.
AIF’s interventions will bring private sector resources and ingenuity to drive public health changes for saving lives, particularly those of women and children. Specifically, these investments will: a) Promote women’s rights and well being using a life cycle approach:

reproductive health and maternal health will be central to AIF’s interventions; b) Protect child survival and well being using a service delivery model to assure quality care by family or community, and engender responsive and accountable public services.

To begin with, the program will be implemented in underserved districts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, and in peri-urban and urban slums attached to Delhi and Mumbai. The program delivery will be chiefly through:

• Clinics with focused diagnostic and limited curative services to meet reproductive and maternal/child health needs, and referral connectivity with government hospitals, in high density underserved areas.

• Community radio stations spanning 5 northern belt states to accelerate health literacy and secure accountable public health services for illiterate migrants.
• Campaign to invest in the girl child to end fetal selection and son preference, and to protect survival and growth of girls.

• Link in with existing micro-savings and lending schemes to ascertain best in practice initiatives.

• Outreach to 5 districts in 2 states with high levels of infant/child mortality and 1 district with large numbers of infected and affected children.

• Integrated primary care: nutrition education & fortification sachets, immunization, and preventing water borne infections, and life cycle skills.