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HEALTH


It is difficult for a European to comprehend the life-threatening dangers the Malagasy face. Half of the children under five have chronic malnutrition, the fourth highest rate in the world. One in five children under the age of five die as a direct result of diarrhoeal diseases.  There are regular outbreaks of diseases like Bubonic Plague and Tuberculosis which have been eradicated in the developed world. 

When you or your child get sick you need good advice and good facilities. The health service in rural Madagascar is extremely basic and normally far away. Medicines are often in short supply and misdiagnosis is common. Many people rely on traditional medicines and unreliable cures, making people worse rather than better.

Health First
Improving health is what we do first. The first funds Feedback Madagascar ever raised were  to buy medicines to stock the hospital in Ranomafana. This is because health is naturally the top priority for every community we work with.

By addressing health first we save and improve lives at the same time as opening doors and building trust, creating the goodwill, energy and momentum for future projects with less visible but longer-term benefits.

Improving Health

We support community health via training and equipment for Community Health Agents and health centre infrastructure improvements:
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  • So far we have trained 2,500 Health Agents
  • We have also trained 728 Traditional Birth Attendants to reduce infant and mother mortality
  • We have built hundreds of hygienic latrines
  • We have upgraded 15 Community Health Centres, either repairing and extending buildings, providing basics such as delivery beds, scales to weigh babies, mattresses and bed linen,or even installing solar power
  • We integrate our health programmes with our agricultural [add link] ones to improve diets and nutrition.
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Health Agents
Our Community Health Agents are all local volunteers. They learn about then teach Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, Safe Motherhood, Malaria and Tuberculosis Control and Management, Nutrition and Hygiene.  They diagnose and refer as many disease cases to hospitals as possible and increase referrals to the many health centres that we have upgraded and staffed. They have had a huge impact on the everyday lives of their communities, and at the same time help us launch new initiatives like:

  • A youth advisory service to provide counselling and peer education on reproductive health and family planning to young people.
  • A community-led 'Total Sanitation’ campaign which resulted in over 600 villages being declared “Open-Air Defecation Free”.
  • A massive anti-malaria campaign, distributing nearly 300,000 impregnated mosquito nets across 140 different sites within 28 communes in 2 districts in just 2 weeks, by mobilising 598 people.
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Tel/Fax: 00 44 20 7431 7853
Email: info@feedbackmadagascar.org
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