What We Do
Five programmes, designed to reinforce each other
Health problems do not arrive one at a time, so we do not treat them that way. Each programme is built to strengthen the others in the same community.
Our health programmes
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Meeting targets and maintaining epidemic control
EpiC Malaria
Sustaining lifesaving malaria services at community level and for at-risk populations along the Thai border, through village and mobile malaria workers.
- Villages covered
- 316
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Reducing newborn illness through handwashing
Clean Hands Healthy Babies
Reducing neonatal and infant illness by increasing handwashing by caregivers in the home, combining handwashing materials with behaviour change communication.
- Pregnant women reached
- 3,000
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Public engagement through circus arts
Antimicrobial Resistance & Ethics
Co-creating a public engagement initiative on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) with schools and universities, using circus arts to reach students and teachers.
- Students engaged
- 4,448
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Electronic clinical decision support for acute fever
EDAM Fever Management
Testing whether an electronic clinical decision support app changes antibiotic prescribing for patients presenting with acute fever at health centres.
- Consultations screened
- 49,424
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Reaching mobile and migrant populations
Cambodia Malaria Elimination
District and community level malaria control and elimination activities, focused on migrants, mobile populations and workers crossing the border to Thailand.
- High-risk population reached
- 15,000
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Six health areas, one behaviour change approach
Promoting Health Behaviors
Improving health behaviours across tuberculosis, family planning, maternal and child health, water and sanitation, malaria and nutrition.
- Population reached
- 152,600
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Cross-cutting
Emergency Response
Mobile medical teams deployed within seventy-two hours of a conflict, outbreak or natural disaster — drawing on all five programmes at once.
- Deployment standard
- 72 hours
Why we work this way
A child with malnutrition usually has three other things wrong
Vertical programmes — one disease, one funder, one set of targets — are easier to fundraise for and worse for patients. A clinic that can only treat what its grant names sends people away. Ours are built to treat what walks in.
One clinic, one visit
A mother attending an antenatal appointment can have her older child screened for malnutrition in the same building on the same morning.
One workforce
The same community health workers screen for malnutrition, follow up TB treatment and refer for counselling — so training compounds instead of duplicating.
One overhead
Shared supply chains, shared vehicles, shared cold storage. It is the main reason our programme spend ratio is 74%.