For Development Professionals:
Sector: Health
Mercy Corps addresses all health issues with the same basic, effective, and outcome-oriented approaches. In all our work we involve a full range of players, including households, communities, health care facilities and local government, because the greater the participation the greater the success. We prioritize basic interventions that are cost-effective and that sustain after Mercy Corps leaves, so our work lives on long after we have left. Through use of a participatory model, the people we serve become co-implementers of projects, because we believe as stakeholders they have a fundamental right to involvement. Lastly, wherever possible, we integrate health programming into programming addressing other vital issues, forming symbiotic relationships between health and microfinance initiatives, for example, wherein multiple goals are forwarded within a single programming effort.
Private-Public Innovation for Girls ›
China’s 106 million ethnic minorities disproportionately suffer the effects of migration, drug use and HIV/AIDS. Minority girls are particularly vulnerable to HIV.
Supporting Local Solutions ›
Zimbabwe has an estimated 1,400,000 orphans (UNICEF 2005), 80% of whom are orphaned by AIDS. The needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) are immense and a major challenge is getting resources directly to households and communities who are directly responsible for OVC.
HIV/AIDS and Microcredit ›
The estimated number of people living with HIV/ AIDS in Honduras is 63,000; however only 4,000 have accessed free antiretroviral (ARV) medication supplied by the government.
Commitment to Practice ›
A growing consensus exists within the HIV/AIDS field that prevention programs present great hope for stemming the rise of the epidemic among the 15-24 year old age group – an age group representing 40% of all new infections.
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