About Us

The AWARE-RH Project is driven by the vision of regional technical leadership institutions and networks proactively assisting national and cross-border health programs. To achieve this, the AWARE-RH Project partners are committed to leading a region-wide process of identifying, disseminating and supporting replication of best practices in family planning, reproductive health, child survival, and infectious diseases in the region and of strengthening the technical and managerial capacity of regional institutions and networks. Ultimately, regional institutions and networks will be able to provide the necessary technical assistance to continue the replication of best practices throughout the region.

In addition, our work focuses upon identifying health financing models and health sector reform models that would address the constraints faced by programs in financing health and increasing access to health services by individuals that need these services. The AWARE-RH Project is supporting advocacy work that will improve the policy environment that enabes these good approaches and models to be implemented. Additionally, AWARE supports individual and institutional capacity-building so that health care workers and institutions can provide technical support to the programs providing these services to communities and populations in this region.

To lay the groundwork for dissemination and replication of best practices throughout the region, AWARE-RH Project staff members thoroughly reviewed the current situation in the region to identify health needs in the region and to identify best practices to address these needs.

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TAILORING APPROACHES TO ADDRESS PRIORITY HEALTH ISSUES

Priority health issues include:

• Family planning and reproductive health

• Reproductive health

• Child survival — prevention and treatment of childhood illnesses, including malaria

Program areas include:

• Health sector reform

• Healthcare financing models

• Commodity security and management

Aproaches include:

• Advocacy

• Health care management training

• Clinical service quality improvement

• Social marketing

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