Health
Drawing of a doctor examining a patient by a 14-year-old boy from Sri Lanka
They are simple interventions – vaccinations, mosquito nets, rehydration fluids and common medications – but without them, millions of children die each year.
Plan helps communities build clinics, train health care workers and invest in equipment and medicine so children can survive and grow up healthy and strong.
We also focus on maternal and reproductive health for girls and women to ensure mothers stay healthy too because when they do, their children are three times more likely to survive.
For example, in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Plan has organized camps to train traditional birth attendants, resulting in a marked decrease in infant and maternal mortality rates.
Case studies
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.
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.
For the first time, children in the Bafata region of Guinea-Bissau are protected by over 90 per cent bed net coverage – helping to drastically reduce the rate of malaria infection.