Main objective: To provide accessible essential, people- and context-centred health care services for all in African communities.
Specific objectives:
- Provide affordable general and surgical health care services in African communities;
- Promote healthy living and well-being via communication for behavioural change;
- Prevent diseases by providing screening for, and encouraging immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases like viral hepatitis B;
- Ensure optimal access to neonatal, child, adolescent and maternal healthcare services;
- Reduce the frequency of hospital consultations and/or duration of hospital stay by providing ambulatory care in fixed-temporal community health centres;
- Pioneer and promote home-based healthcare in communities especially for chronic ailments;
- Sensitise the population on how to prevent or survive with chronic infectious (HIV, Hepatitis B) and non-infectious diseases (Hypertension, Diabetes, cancers);
- Enhance the capacity of health workers to deliver compassionate care;
- Nurse the elderly, homeless/neglected ageing persons in suitable and adapted environments (Geriatric homes);
- Empower the less privileged and stigmatized groups in the communities (such as orphans, rape victims, wounded and displaced persons etc) via education, material support and by promoting vocational training;