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Reproductive,

Maternal, Newborn,

Child and Adolescent
Health (RMNCH+A)

Considering the importance of interventions across
life stages of women, the Trusts are engaged in
programmes such as Mission ASHA that strive to
strengthen community health workers, along with
programmes to reduce maternal newborn deaths,
such as ASMAN (Alliance for Saving Mothers And
Newborns), in partnership with other corporate
partners.

Key Achievements
Malaria awareness and mosquito net treament session

 The Government of India was recognised at the
United Nations for adopting technology tools;
namely the CPHC-NCD Application for
Population-Based Screening for
non-communicable diseases. The Trusts
facilitated enrolment of over 100 million
beneficiaries in this program. WHO India
organised an orientation on CPHC-NCD Software
in February 2021 with the support of the Trusts’
team for South East Asian Countries. Notably,
Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh showed keen
interest to adopt and implement this application
in their countries.
 The model Urban Primary Health Centre
(UPHC) Project was selected in an Intercity Forum
Awareness session for young mothers as a Best Practice PPP model for strengthening
Urban Primary Health Centres.
Communicable Diseases  A Global Webinar on Emergency & Trauma

Management was organised in February 2021,
The focus here is on halting the spread of of tuberculosis and malaria in India. IHF acts as an during which discussions were held on
communicable diseases through various initiatives. aggregator of resources from Indian and global Healthcare and SBME (simulation-based medical
For example, the Malaria-Free Odisha programme foundations, family offices and other private and education) along with Registry in Emergency and
ensures community empowerment to fight malaria public-sector institutions to ensure the efficient Trauma Care.
with resources and awareness, while grants to review and scale-up of innovative solutions, taking  Under an MoU with the Government of
academic organisations ensure research and them from “lab to last mile.” Chhattisgarh, through a grant to Sanjeevani
advocacy to combat diseases like tuberculosis and Hospital, which is a Nodal Centre for treatment of
AIDS. In partnership with the Global Fund, the Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD), the Trusts
Trusts have launched the India Health Fund, which supported the development of a model
is the first platform to aggregate and invest programme for continuum of care in screening,
philanthropic capital to accelerate the elimination early detection, linkage and treatment of CHD.
Around 13,000 children were screened and 540
CHD surgeries have been conducted so far under
this programme.
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