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Poor health and poverty go hand-in-hand.

Hunger is a problem that affects everything for the world’s poorest people. It prevents children’s brains from developing fully, causes physical stunting and inhibits their immune systems.

Access to healthcare

Islamic Aid believes that good health and access to healthcare are fundamental human rights. The overall goal of Islamic Aid health programme is to improve the health of the world’s poorest people and ensure that they have access to food. Islamic Aid nutrition programmes work to prevent malnutrition and ensure that those who do suffer can gradually recover to full health.

Islamic Aid priorities

In tackling hunger, Islamic Aid aims to transform the lives of those living in poverty. Every year, Islamic Aid helps improve the health of thousnads of poor people. Islamic Aid work is guided by a health policy. For the most part, Islamic Aid works on improving health through primary healthcare in emergency, rehabilitation and development situations specifically focusing on the following three areas:

• Maternal, neonatal and child health;
• Nutrition;
• Water and sanitation;

• Islamic Aid aims

  Islamic Aid is working towards a world in which no one dies for want of safe and nutritious food. Our work with women and children focuses on proper nourishment during the crucial 1,000 day period from pregnancy to age two. Islamic Aid combines it’s expertise with local knowledge to help people develop their own lasting solutions.

  How Islamic Aid tackling the problem

  Millions of children die before their fifth birthday because of poor nutrition, inadequate sanitation or lack of access to healthcare. Islamic Aid tackles these problems by:

  • Teaching parents and health workers how to spot and prevent malnutrition in children under five;
  • Training birth attendants on safe deliveries;
  • Educating women on caring for infants;
  • Running supplementary feeding programmes to treat malnourished mothers and children;
  • Providing people with access to clean water;
  • Educating communities on good hygiene, reducing the spread of disease,;