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Health Education
Technology is transforming how health care is delivered in Africa, giving more people in remote areas there and around the world access to better care. Likewise, easier access to data helps both doctors and policymakers make better-informed decisions abouthow to continue to improve the system. Even with these strides, however, the continent’s health care system faces big challenges. Africa, specifically Ghana, is confronting an increased demand beyond the treatment of AIDS, malaria, and other communicable diseases to address the no communicable ones such as hypertension, diabetes and among others which are growing as the middle class increases and lack of proper education and lifestyle modification with regards to nutrition and
health.
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Clinical and HIV/AIDS Treatment
Providing intensive clinical services targeting people at their homes and vantage areas with the sole aim of bringing health care at their doorstep, organizing health screening programs at communities where access to primary health is a challenge. FOHA’s overwhelming achievement in community outreach programmes saves a millions of lives across the region and beyond, reducing challenge of people to access proper health, and provides guidance and behavior change to the vulnerable. FOHA’s mission is in line with the Ghana AIDS commission strategic plan on the 90-90-90 fast track targets aimed at ensuring that 90% of Persons Living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of Persons Living with HIV who know their HIV status are placed on sustained treatment, and 90% of Persons Living with HIV on sustained treatment achieve viral
{tab=Capacity Development}
Capacity, Social Protection And Livelihood Development
The majority of Ghanaians fall in the poverty level, considering the definition of the United Nations Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, 2001. According to statistics, about 51% of Ghana's poor population can mostly be found in the rural areas, and so far, the poorest region in the country are the Upper West, Upper East and North. In a research conducted by the Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA), it was discovered that in Ghana, solely on the basis of household food consumption, 5% of the population of 1.2 million people have limited access to sufficient and nutritious food for an active and healthy life. Up to 1.5 million people vulnerable to food insecurity live in the rural areas and urban areas of the seven remaining regions, with the largest percentage in the Brong-Ahafo Region. Deprived of effective safety nets and social protection systems, poor and food insecure people can neither invest in more sustainable agricultural practices nor even protect such modest resources as they have. FOHA works in the area of agriculture training to group farmers, communities and small and the vulnerable and food insecure groups, works with partners to offer logistics and inputs, build on multiple benefit potentials delivered by improved training and community participation activities geared towards improving yields and to meet market standards and safeguard resources to meet future needs. FOHA’s mandate on gender equality and social protection involves Strengthen participation and equal representation of women, scheduled tribes, and marginal cultivators in the communities. Work with partners and public agencies to great and strengthen market linkages and accessible to rural farmers and organize refresher training for caterers providing school feeding with the aim of making it more nutritious.
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Nutrition
Good nutrition is widely recognized to be an essential element in the ability to lead a healthy and productive life. Yet poor nutrition remains a critical global problem: Each year, more children die as a result of under nutrition than of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Good nutrition is widely recognized to be an essential element in the ability to lead a healthy and productive life. Yet poor nutrition remains a critical global problem: Each year, more children die as a result of under nutrition than of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The Ghana demographic health survey, 2014 estimates stunting 19% among children in Ghana, and the cost of hunger report indicates 24% of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with under nutrition and the implication is that, child mortality associated with under nutrition has reduced Ghana’s workforce by 7.3%. The report further indicates that, the annual cost associated with child under nutrition is estimated at GHS 4.6 billion equivalent to 6.4% GDP. The effects of malnutrition are devastating and far reaching. It not only causes loss of life, but also weakens immune systems and increases risk of disease. It lowers the success rate in education and employment, ultimately leading to the loss of productivity and well-being of communities and nations. It is both a result and driver of poverty and inequality. Nutrition has generally made a lot of progress as evident in the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, but the gains have been uneven, with increasing geographic disparities. In order to address these challenges the focus would be to increase coverage of high-impact nutrition specific interventions that ensure optimal nutrition of Ghanaians throughout their lifecycle. Special reference will be made to maternal health and child survival as well as collaboration with relevant sectors to ensure high coverage of nutrition-sensitive interventions to address the underlying causes of malnutrition. FOHA, in the brong ahafo region with key stakeholders partnership GHS embarks on nutrition sensitive education programs for communities in the region, radio campaigns on early breastfeeding which has recorded a marginal decrease from 127% to 98% from 2013 to 2014, according to the GDHS 2014. Among FOHA’s program include capacity building for health nurses in the area of nutrition screening and home care management that aims to improve the nutritional status of the vulnerable. Community group for breastfeeding in action for FOHA is currently in place to create awareness and understanding for the need to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months and wider approach to bridge the gap for under nutrition especially to improve on the first 100,000 days of life.
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Research And Community Development
Research and community development plays a key role in ending global challenges in health putting vulnerable people into perspective that will enhance access to health and reduce risk related factors associated with health implications. FOHA works in the in the field of community needs assessment, engages in community participatory activities that will understand their own problem, find solutions, and build a peaceful and healthy community. Work with communities to improve on social and economic interventions, develop partnerships to support community development projects, which have a more holistic approach and research related to improve on health and wellness of the community.
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