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How we Work Towards Primary Health Care
ADRA provides immunizations, clean water, sanitation, health care worker training, HIV and AIDS education, community-based health programs, and fights tobacco use to help reduce the millions that die each year—especially children—from preventable health causes.
Stifling the potential of many children and parents are HIV and AIDS, high birth and illiteracy rates, and lack of access to health care and potable water.
To combat this, ADRA establishes community-based health services and education programs. Special emphasis is placed on child survival, nutrition, sanitation, smoking cessation and prevention, HIV and AIDS, functional adult literacy, and child abuse issues. For sustainability, ADRA trains community health workers and traditional birth attendants, incorporates HIV and AIDS components into programs in all sectors, and creates linkages to government programs and resources.
Stories from the field
Personal accounts and timely stories straight from the field.
Pardon Mwansa, Board of Directors, ADRA InternationalAudio posted by Pardon Mwansa 
ADRA International’s board of directors contains some of the most passionate and diverse individuals, many of whom come from the countries in which ADRA works to rebuild lives. Pardon Mwansa, originally from Zambia, talks about HIV and AIDS, famine, and why there is hope in the continent of Africa. listen to audio > | download transcript > |
Rudy Monsalve, Director of Food Security, ADRA InternationalAudio posted by Rudy Monsalve
Nicaragua has had to endure political instability for several decades and just as they were recovering Hurricane Mitch destroyed homes, took lives, and devastated the country's infrastructure. Rudy Monsalve talks about his recent visit to ADRA's large food security and health programs in Nicaragua. … listen to audio > |
Greg Young, Recruitment Director, Human Resources Bureau, ADRA InternationalAudio posted by Greg Young
In northern Thailand, children from hillside communities are victims of more than poverty and want. They face something darker and more menacing—human trafficking. These children are exploited and forced to work in the sinister world of the sex industry. Recently Greg Young, country director for ADRA Thailand outlined the problem of “sexploitation” and shared what ADRA is doing to deal with the issue. listen to audio > | download transcript > |
ADRA at Work
Thorough coverage of our work in primary health care.
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Becoming Healthy and Prosperous in Madagascar |
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Diagnosing Kazak |
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Simple Chickenpox Can Kill Malnourished Children |
