Health and development are inextricably linked! The goal of World Vision Canada's health team is to enhance the quality of life of families and their children by responding to impending health needs.
This team oversees projects that target tuberculosis (TB) and HIV and AIDS—two leading killers in the world today. Both are rapidly consuming lives around the world, and both are major barriers to social and economic development.
Improving health and lifespan is an end in itself but it is also a means of achieving poverty reduction.
Currently, World Vision Canada is implementing three tuberculosis projects and two HIV and AIDS projects in Asia. All of them are implemented in accordance with respective national government objectives and follow technical approaches proposed by Canadian and international groups such as the Canadian International Development Agency, the World Health Organisation, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and United Nations AIDS.
World Vision follows four key strategies:
- Partnership and collaboration with Ministries of Health
- Capacity building for health providers:
- Developing technical capabilities
- Enhancing monitoring and evaluation systems
- Building community-based health programs:
- Seeking to understand local barriers and enabling factors for health care provision
- Improving accessibility to primary health care
- Increasing local knowledge and awareness of health issues and available health services
- Providing medical supplies and resources
