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History and approach
Fact finding mission to three countries, Senegal, Mali and Burkina
Faso
documented how bad health care system on the backdrop of poverty, growing chronic and emerging infectious diseases,
and the HIV/AIDS well entrenched and high infant mortality rate, is impeding these countries economic development.
The
African Health Innovations was created among like-minded colleagues and friends to apply innovative strategies to tackle the
comprehensive health issues confronting the total wellness of Africans on the continent. Countries in Africa spent the least
resources on health care, research and preventive services, which affect people in terms of short life expectancy. The Africans
are under constant strain and experiencing preventable health catastrophes, which are not urgently addressed because of dire
poverty.
As African countries are not technologically and financially equipped to promote and protect the health
of their citizens, families are forced to witness the slow painful demise of a family member. Scientific evidence demonstrated
that a well developed public health system, based on prevention and early intervention, saves lives, but faced with other
national priorities; African governments lack the will to invest in health services and education adversely affecting the
lives of their people.
It is the aim of the AHI to apply innovative approaches and evidence-based strategies to
give back to our communities by adequately addressing their health needs.
We are asking for your support to help
address the health issues affecting the continent, in a timely manner. It is our collective responsibility to help promote
health and wellness and to assist those in need of medical attention. We strive to effectively tackle the tragedies of preventable
and curable health problems that plague the African because of poverty we will assist our people and give them hope by developing
public health initiatives, and providing clinical services in health centers and mobile units in an efficient and culturally
sensitive manner. It is our belief that denying health care because of poverty is a Human Right violation.
In
complex health cases such as major surgeries, cancer treatment and organ transplants, and post-intervention recovery, we will
support those patients with the cost of medicines
Our areas of focus will be aligned with one a unique
logic: Efficient public health system and innovative health care delivery system to look at urgent needs concerning the health
of the people and prioritize the needs in a timely fashion. Children with critical health needs will receive priority attention.
Children’s Health
Children health is our frontline battle. Numbers
are beyond comprehension: - Over 4.5 million of children
under 5 are dying every year in Africa from communicable diseases mainly: Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Pneumonia,
Onchocerciasis (“river blindness”), Meningitis, Malaria, Hepatitis A, B & C, Dengue, Cholera, Measles…According
to World vision one in six African children dies before the age of five; and most of these deaths could be prevented
- Nearly one third of children in Sub-Saharan Africa are underweight. (source: UNICEF)
- In sub-Saharan Africa, measles takes the life of a child nearly every minute of
every day. An effective measles vaccine costs as little as $1 per child. (source: WHO)
- Over 2 million children under 14 years old are HIV positive (WHO); between 12 and 14 million African children have
been orphaned by HIV/AIDS (source: World Bank).
HIV/AIDS
While the pandemic HIV/AIDS is better controlled in the West because of new drugs, it is still ravaging Africans
We want to implement evidence-based approaches to reduce the spread and save lives.
Cancer
With
the rapid and disorganized modernization of African countries, the lack of environmental health codes is affecting direly
the health of the people. Environmental pollutants and toxicants are spilled in rivers and stored in open fields exposing
people to high level of cancerous products. Recently, in Senegal many children died because of lead poisoning because of an
old batteries landfill close to their neighborhood. The AHI will develop media campaign to raise awareness for the need of
environmentally safe living conditions.
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