Our
projects
Our projects promote healthcare
and social reform to ensure availability and accessibility
of information and services to healthcare providers, mothers
and children in the FSU. This includes the development of
safe childbirth and newborn care, infection control and
the care and rehabilitation of children with disabilities.
Currently HealthProm works
in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to improve the social
care of children, and in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Northern
Afghanistan for the health of women and babies. Because
HealthProm does not provide services directly, but aims
to build the capacity of its overseas partners, mostly through
in-service training and service development, the success
of its partnership projects depends crucially on its overseas
partners. This past year HealthProm has also continued work
on directly developing local programmes for Russian-speaking
women in the London area.
Reducing maternal and newborn deaths in Charharkint District Northern Afghanistan
Bakhtar Development Network, our Afghan non-profit partner (www.bdn.org.af/), which delivers a basic health service in Balkh Province, asked HealthProm to help improve uptake by village women of maternity services and newborn care. All births are meant to take place in the health centres which it has set up or the hospital, but in rural areas 90% of births are still in villages, where there is no skilled care. This is because access to health centres is poor, often through mountains and snow, and women and their families fail to recognise early enough the need for the midwife.
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Article by Dr Andrew Bond on HealthProm’s work published in the journal of the RCOG
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An Early Years Support Centre service in Dushanbe: Reducing poverty, empowering vulnerable families, strengthening partnerships and advocating for rights
This project builds on an existing project "Better care for at-risk Babies" which began in 2006 and is delivered through a partnership between the state, local and international NGOs. The resulting Day Care Centre for children with disabilities and their families, Kishte, started work in February 2008. Kishte provides a safe place in a stimulating environment for over 80 vulnerable children from the community and the Baby Home.
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Supporting young disabled children and their families in the Kyrgyz Republic
In May 2008 HealthProm began
a new project "Supporting young disabled children and their
families in the Kyrgyz Republic" in partnership with local
Kyrgyz NGOs - Association of Parents of Disabled Children
in Bishkek and the Public Association Shoola Kol in Bokonbaevo
village in Issyk- Kul region. The project is supported by
the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.
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Young Child Attachment Project in St.Perersburg
This two-year project in partnership with
the St Petersburg Early Intervention Institute,
funded mainly by the European
Union, ended in 2008. The main aim was to
build the Institute’s knowledge and understanding
of children's needs for development
and a Russian evidence base of research
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findings on what works best for child development,
to be disseminated throughout Russia.
Russian child care specialists and those who
make decisions about placement of babies
and children can now obtain guidance and
information from the Institute.
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Better care for at risk babies in Dushanbe
The goal of this project is to enable parents
to retain care of their babies and
young children who have special needs.
There are many children in a couple of baby
homes in the capital, Dushanbe, suffering from
a lack of care, stimulation, and in particular, a
lack of attachment to a consistent and loving
adult. This project began in 2006 when a partnership
was forged between HealthProm;
Dushanbe City Health Department; ORA Tajikistan
and the Tajik NGO Health. In autumn
2008, we created a new partnership with the
League of Disabled Women.
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Essential Newborn Care in Uzbekistan
In December 2008 HealthProm gave a training
of trainers in use of equipment for sick
newborn babies in the capital, Tashkent.
This was the fifth annual training of trainers
which HealthProm has delivered there to reduce
mortality and illness of newborn babies.
The previous four, in newborn resuscitation
and WHO’s "Essential Newborn Care", have
been rolled out by the Ministry and UNICEF in
six regions, almost half the country. Five
years ago reports indicated newborn mortality
to be higher than previously thought, and the
Ministry of Health asked HealthProm for trainings
for its neonatologists.
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Supporting Russian-speaking women in London
In 2008 HealthProm successfully piloted its
first local London project aimed at helping
vulnerable Russian-speaking women
through support and information services.
Starting in summer 2007, using funds from
"Awards for All", research was carried out and
support services created.
The long-term goal of the project is to facilitate
the development of favourable conditions for
integration for Russian-speaking women so
they can gain an enhanced sense of their own
worth and usefulness, and gain new skills that
would help them to fully integrate into British
society.
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Safer Childbirth Project in Azerbaijan
In 2003 GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, awarded funding to HealthProm to provide further education for doctors and midwives in Baku and surrounding refugee camps. This three-year programme is part of a national reproductive health strategy developed in conjunction with the Azerbaijan Health Ministry and Azeri NGO, Family and Society. It is targeted at the refugees from the ongoing conflict with neighbouring Armenia, who now live around the capital city Baku, and follows the success of previous HealthProm projects on a smaller-scale.
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Improving the Lives of Disabled Children and their Families in the Altai Republic
In spring 2005 HealthProm has started a new project aiming to help children with disabilities and their families in Altai Republic, Russia. The project is funded by the European Commission and aims to encourage the social inclusion, development and, where necessary, rehabilitation of disabled children in Altai Republic. This will be achieved through creating a sustainable model of community based care and support for disabled children and their families.
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