Every 20 minutes
20 more
32% of children
are malnourished.
2 Children
In India, limited access to preventive care information and a low understanding of complications and risk factors among pregnant women and mothers, are some of the major factors that contribute to delays in seeking care. Even when women do access care in a timely manner, the quality of information and guidance they receive is often inadequate. The continuum of care—spanning early identification of risk factors, appropriate referrals, and effective treatment—is weak due to insufficient training, high workloads, and limited knowledge among health workers on quality reproductive, maternal, and child healthcare. This leads to unnecessary or delayed referrals, resulting in overcrowded tertiary care facilities and higher rates of maternal and child mortality and morbidity.
What We Do
We employ a comprehensive 360-degree perspective to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity. This includes empowering women with direct access to vital health information through mobile phones (mHealth) and strengthening the health system by training health workers across all levels. Our “tech plus touch” approach, combines the power of technology with the reach and expertise of government and partner NGO health worker networks.
Our interventions align with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
- SDG 2 – Zero Hunger (end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030)
- SDG 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing (ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages) which includes healthy pregnancies, healthy childhood, and universal vaccine coverage
- SDG 5 – Gender Equality (achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) which includes universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.
- SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals (recognizing the importance of multi-stakeholder partnerships to share knowledge, expertise, technology, and financial resources, and promoting effective public, private, and civil society collaborations to advance the SDGs.)
PROGRAMMES FOR
WOMEN & CHILDREN
- providing them critical preventive healthcare information
- enabling them to identify risk factors
- encouraging to seek timely care
Kilkari
in collaboration with
the Health Ministry, that sends timed and targeted content to women through pregnancy
and infancy
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mMitra
voice call service developed by ARMMAN for pregnant women and mothers (similar to Kilkari) being used as a sandbox for innovations
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Swasth Kadam
counseling and support for caregivers of moderately underweight children, to prevent their decline to acute
forms of malnutrition
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Mobile Academy
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IHRPTM
for women
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Arogya Sakhi
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PROGRAMMES FOR
HEALTH WORKERS & SYSTEM STRENGTHENING
- to build a strong ‘continuum of care’ for pregnant women, mothers and children
- to help them identify and manage risk factors early
- to ensure timely referrals of high risk pregnancies to tertiary care centres
- to improve the efficiency of the health system