Health Projects

Project: AMREF – Malaria Prevention

Malaria is a terrible disease, which claims 3000 children every day. Pregnant women often transmit the disease to their babies. Still, Malaria is a disease that can be prevented. Sleeping under mosquito nets can significantly reduce the risk of infection by mosquito bites. Those at risk, however, often don´t understand how the disease is transmitted, how they can protect themselves – or can´t afford buying bed nets.
The PRANA Foundation supports an anti-malaria project initiated by AMREF Flying Doctors in Ethiopia. Its objective is to provide especially impregnated bed nets to women and to women with babies. Additionally, PRANA sponsors the training of healthcare practitioners who will inform the population in their area about the causes, symptoms and prevention of malaria and other tropical diseases.

Link: http://www.amrefgermany.de/


Project: Accordia – HIV/Aids Prevention

The PRANA Foundation makes 10 scholarships available, under the auspices of the Accordia Clobal Health Foundation, for the training of community health practitioners in Tanzania.
The programme focuses on HIV/Aids prevention as well as on the practical medical care of infected people. A specially designed training programme aims to strengthen the know-how of local health practitioners in order to improve the care and treatment of HIV/Aids infected patients as well as their preventive advice to children, youths and adults.

Link: http://www.accordiafoundation.org/


Project: Wateraid

Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. Women and children spend – on average – 2 hours a day with the collection of water. Nearly 40 % of the population has no access to clean drinking water. Unclean water as well as unsanitary hygienic conditions claim the lives of some 4000 children every day. The PRANA Foundation supports Water Aid´s efforts in the Nzega District to build communal drinking water facilities and to train the population in hygiene aspects. The project will provide safe drinking water to 10,000 people.

Link: http://www.wateraid.org/uk/

The HealthStore Foundation

The American HealthStore Foundation aims to provide good quality, proven medical care to the poorest in those African regions where access to reliable medical drugs is difficult or impossible. This is achieved through the building of small, standardised clinics, using an innovative micro-franchising business model.

Link: http://www.cfwshops.org