Safe births boosted by training
A Plan project to train and support traditional birth attendants in Liberia is giving women in remote rural areas access to safe maternal health care services for the first time.
Health
A child being treated at a Plan-supported clinic in Burkina Faso
From supporting immunisation programmes to training volunteers on strategies to combat malaria, Plan's health programmes help to save thousands of children's lives every year.
Focusing on child health, our community-level initiatives include immunisation, child nutrition and hygiene promotion. We give particular emphasis to the 5 main causes of death among children aged 0 to 5, including malaria, diarrhoea, acute respiratory diseases, malnutrition and measles.
Maternal and reproductive health
Maternal health is another key area of our work, particularly pre- and postnatal care and birth attendance.
For example, in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Plan has organised camps to train traditional birth attendants, which has resulted in a marked decrease in infant and maternal mortality rates.
We also implement reproductive health programmes in most of the countries that we work in, with the main focus on HIV.
- Learn about Plan's early childhood care and development work.
- Read about our work on sexual health, including HIV
Case studies
Child malnutrition falls in Khombole
Child malnutrition in the district of Khombole in Senegal has fallen dramatically thanks to a national nutrition strengthening project funded by the World Bank in partnership with Plan Senegal.
Rolling back malaria in Guinea-Bissau
For the first time, children in the Bafata region of Guinea-Bissau are protected by over 90% bed net coverage - helping to drastically reduce the rate of malaria infection.
