U.S. Global Health Initiative Announces First Batch of Recipients

Ethiopia, Kenya, and Malawi are among the first eight nations that will receive funds from the U.S. government’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus grant.
 
July 1, 2010 - PRLog -- The $63 billion, six-year project aims to improve health outcomes by bolstering health systems around the world. The other nations among the initial group of recipients are Bangladesh, Guatemala, Mali, Nepal, and Rwanda.

According to the GHI Web site, the grant will target the health of women, newborns, and children by focusing on infectious disease, nutrition, and safe water. The grant could extend to 20 countries by 2014.

Shahnaaz Sharif, Kenya’s Director of Public Health and Sanitation, told IRIN/Plus News that the added support Kenya will receive from the GHI would address gaps left by funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. PEPFAR falls under the umbrella of the Global Health Initiative. The earlier support for Kenya focused on integrating tuberculosis and HIV services, not on strengthening health delivery systems, said Sharif.

SOS Children’s Villages Helping African Children for Almost Forty Years

Poverty, unlucky geography, lack of education, and bad sanitation contribute to the poor health of families and children in many African countries. These scourges and the diseases they cause create orphans and children whose parents can no longer care for them. SOS Children’s Villages has been in Africa since the early 1970s giving hope to children who would otherwise have none.

In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Malawi, for instance, SOS Children’s Villages operates a total of 13 Villages. Using a whole-child approach to improving lives, SOS not only provides a warm SOS home and SOS Mother for each child. It also offers SOS and neighboring children medical care, schooling and social services to improve their lives.

SOS has also supplied emergency relief to families in these countries during famines and other natural disasters.

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For over 60 years, SOS Children's Villages has been dedicated to the long-term care of children without parental care. Through our SOS Children's Villages and other initiatives, SOS impacts the lives of over 1 million people each year.
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