Our Health Program
Most of the health issues, especially in rural areas, could be prevented with the appropriate knowledge & behaviour on the side of the individual or family and can be treated if health services were accessed and available. ADRA is supporting Lao PDR in achieving the Millennium Development Goals 5 & 6 (Child Health & Combat HIV/AIDS), by equipping communities through education and training using simple, culturally contextualised and creative approaches that empower families to take control of their own health. ADRA also recognises the limitations to preventative behaviour, which is why we are also supporting the development of the governments’ rural health services through training, resourcing and partnership that works towards improved rural health care.
Less than 40% of the Lao population still have no source of safe drinking water and 50% do not have access to a simple pit latrine. ADRA Lao has been providing clean water and sanitary latrines for over 15 years. We work by partnering with rural communities in providing technical skills and oversight, training and some material and communities provide their labour and contribute some of the material. All construction is combined with locally-contextualised hygiene and health training. Through this mechanism, we are constructing eco-friendly Gravity-Fed Systems (GFS) and family latrines that have proven to significantly improve the health of many communities. In line with the Millennium Development Goal 7 (target #3), we are committed to facilitating the provision of clean water and sanitation to the rural areas of Lao that do not have access to this basic human right.
Our Health Projects
WASH for HEALTH
Basic awareness of good health practices is very low in the remote ethnic communities in Luangnamtha Province. Poverty in Laos is directly connected to access to clean water and sanitation. A poor village in Laos is a village without access to safe water supply. Poor access to medical care and the lack of clean drinking water are major factors....Read the whole story
YEAH
Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS (YEAH) project is making a huge impact in villages across Luangnamtha Province. YEAH has empowered school students, villagers, school teachers and district government representatives to act as peer-to-peer educators on the dangers, issues and facts surrounding HIV/AIDS as well as other sexually transmitted....Read the whole story
LEMHP (recently completed)
LEMHP, the Luangnamtha Ethnic Minority Health Project works with thousands of people in Luangnamtha Province with the aim of increasing the basic health facilities, knowledge and practice of the ethnic minority people group. LEMHP engages the beneficiaries as laboures, contributing their own time in... Read the whole story
PALTCIL, Planning and Legislating Tobacco Control in Laos (recently completed)
The tobacco epidemic is one of the greatest public health challenges in the Southeast Asia region. One in four of the deaths that occur from the effects of tobacco occur in this Region . Although there have been no national surveys on tobacco use in Lao PDR, estimates suggest that 59% of males and 13% of...Read the whole story
Advocate for Tobacco Control Law
(recently completed)
In order that the tobacco control law is considered and approved by the National Assembly in 2009, the draft tobacco control law must obtain approval from the Cabinet in September 2008. To facilitate this movement, intensive advocacy activities with policy makers and parliament members must be done during...Read the whole story
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