ICROSS women's health programme 2011

ICROSS creating long range women's health programmes

ICROSS has focused on women's health and reproductive health care in its expansion of Maternal and child health programmes. ICROSS health services have provided comprehensive care for mothers and children for 30 years in Africa in a wide range of evidence based health projects.

Our health projects focus since 1983 on mothers and children in community owned initiatives.
These are the most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. The International Director/Founder Dr Michael Meegan said today " We are really interested in increasing the capacity of the communities we live with to deliver long term health services and change. This is a dynamic shared learning with a wide range of partners and friends"

Saruni Ole Lengeny added " Our work includes includes training local ICROSS health volunteers as counsellors, and carers community health. ICROSS is focused on interventions ranging from prevention, diarrhoea control and reducing blindness, nutrition and education to birth spacing and clinical services. Our reproductive health projects include family planning. We are planning new maternity units to improve prenatal care, labour and delivery services, and the prevention, detection and treatment of STDs, including HIV/AIDS."
There are more facts on women's health at http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/women/en/

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For decades ICROSS has worked with mothers and children in building long term safe motherhood projects



There are many problems Ordinary woman in Kenya are unable to afford basic sanitary protection.

⇒ One pack of sanitary pads costs more than 50% of the average monthly wage for women.

⇒ Millions of Kenyan women are forced to replace tampons with newspapers and dirty rags.

• This can lead to vaginal infections for which there is no available medication.

• These vaginal infections are often mistaken to be sexually transmitted infections leading to social embarrassment and domestic violence.

⇒ Wives and mothers are unable to work when they have their periods, further hindering already impoverished families.

⇒ Girls are forced to take time off school, further jeopardizing their education.

• Because of the economic and cultural crises in Africa, its schools serve as more than academic centers. They provide community resources where young people receive basic care and services, such as food programs, clean water and counseling.