Primary health care

• Chinese barefoot doctors

  • Farmers who have recieved basic medical training and brought healthcare to rural areas
  • promote basic hygiene and offer preventative healthcare and family planing
  • mostly effective as people already trusted by community, and provides basic healthcare.
  • But it is expensive to train people and in rural areas not everyone can access.
• Oral Rehydration Therapy

  • The pre packaged solution just needs mixed with water
  • Mostly effective as easy to use and affordable. Estimate saves 1 million babies a year.
• Tube well

  • pump water that is trapped. Stops contamination and provides safe reliable water.
  • mostly effective, but in some places light contamination and arsenic poisoning is widely spread
• VIP latrines

  • vantalised improved pit latrine reduces risk of disease contamination by flies and insects.
  • Dignified solution to going to the toilet. waste turns into compost and stops waste leaking
  • effective as much cleaner and stops seapage
  • Can still smell and needs people to manage the compost
• Vaccinations

  • UNICEF is helping to planing a regular supply of vaccines. Health workers are recieving training to perform safe injections.
  • Organising outreach clinics
  • estimate saves 2-3 million people from preventable diseases and helps stops the spread.
• SODIS - water solar disinfectant

  • When you fill a PET plastic bottle with water and leave it in the sun for 6 hours. Then its safe to drink
  • Very effective and cheep anf safe and prevents disease
• Education

  • People can be educated on sexual health anf how to use nets to stop mosquitoes
  • ABC method is used (Abstanace, Be faithful, contreception)
  • Illiterate people learn through songs and plays