What we do

Our promises

To offer health care services and health education as the basis for improving the livelihood of the underprivileged communities in Africa, focusing currently in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali
To help under-served communities, in the defined countries, to become self-sufficient to address their health needs.
To offer staff support to organizations providing health services in the urban rural areas.
To help community health workers better assist health professionals by improving their skills.
To offer volunteers an opportunity to discover practical and innovative health care practice and replicate it.
To work diligently towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) that calls for countries to reduce child mortality rates by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 (WHO)
To increase healthy life expectancy by adequately addressing the health needs of children.
To develop a surveillance system to detect, prevent and treat life-threatening communicable and emerging diseases of infants and children in Africa
To sustain and to build a strong work force in Africa by reducing the burden of diseases that reduces productivity and negatively impact health care cost.
To provide 2000 children dental screening every year

Health programs

a. Healthy schools & Healthy Families
This program is designed to educate families about nutrition and healthy cooking, eating & fitness. Health habits in general will build strong children that would not miss school days.

b. Community Mutual Health Initiative
There are too many mutual health organizations that are failing because of lack of management skills and competence. AHI will give them the tools they’re missing for best successes through training, expertise sharing…

c. Doctors within Africa (DWA)
A team of doctors (we will also take advantage of the skills of retired doctors: in the continent some people retire as early as 55 years) will be organized to give care to needy and propagate the AHI health programs within the targeted communities. The team will intervene through a network of heath centers using innovative technologies such as mobile telemedicine unit to implement an array of health program portfolio. The DWA will work closely with the University Hospitals and private research institutes to develop national and transnational surveillance system.

d. “Smile” and “look” program
Dental and vision care are a major unmet health need for our children in Africa. Most of African children have never received oral or/and vision or been exposed to common preventive measures. This program is designed to organize a quarterly campaign of health and dental screenings. We’ll propose the follow up with detected cases.

e. Prevention & Disease control program
We will select five major-common communicable diseases in our targeted zones; build comprehensive and efficient prevention tools.

Outreach & New Technologies Programs

a. Health Awareness program
Health awareness day programs will be organized to address endemic diseases in the targeted regions

b. Medical Equipment Technology Transfer
Medical institutions are facing incredible challenges in Africa. Some local hospitals don’t even have gloves to perform chirurgical procedures. They are using……plastic bags!
Some other hospitals don’t have beds for patients. They’re treating patients …..On the floor! In the long term plan, AHI will explore transferring the technologies to assemble and create needed equipments. The raw material is available, the human resources are plenty, and a good business plan should bring needed investment in medical equipment manufacture for the growing African market.

c. Health on Wheels (Mobile clinic)
The mobile clinic will help provide care and medication to patients care practice rural areas and quickly referring those in dire situations to medical attention in a timely manner. In large cities, a support network of charitable organizations will offer medical safety net to the poor.