Health

To have access in our age to modern health services, is a human right. If education of a human being is to be considered as the “train” for its progress, then health considered as the most significant factor of its development, could be seen as its “energy”. 

Providing a superior life for individuals, depends on a number of social rights to be granted to citizens of a nation, the most important of which is health. A society that provides protected health conditions and services is better capable of facing future challenges, of finding alternatives and acquiring good and efficient education, of engaging in political participation, and of adopting a clear vision to adapt to universal transformations.

AGFUND’s Awareness and Initiative

That is why, AGFUND offers special attention to the health sector in all its aspects. It supports projects of child immunization, disease control, environment protection, providing pure water treatment solutions etc…. Accordingly, AGFUND is keen to struggle for securing these rights to disadvantaged communities in developing societies. It focuses on supporting and backing projects that provide elementary health services particularly protecting women and children, on training nursing staff, in participating in WHO and UNICEF campaigns for vaccination, and on the protection from epidemics or other common diseases.

This accumulated experience and awareness for the need to offer basic solutions in the health sector,  led to the creation of AGFUND's complete project, the Arab Family Health Project.  

This is a developmental multi-dimensional project that provides national institutions with accurate information and enables them employ modern techniques used for the improvement of health services, objectives and planning strategies.

This project being closely related to human, social and economic affairs, stimulated profound and far-reaching ideas and implemented and regenerated other similar health related projects. It initiated in the Arab world, a broad alliances between nations in the field of health and it attracted as well regional and international partnerships to create other medical projects.

On the Arab Family Health Project HRH AGFUND Prince Talal, President of Agfund declared:

"Knowledge and experience were blended and combined in the completion of this project because the majority of sectors of the Arab society contributed in its accomplishment. This is what made the Family Health Project one of the most successful projects of Arab joint ventures.  With all its aspects, this project is in a way, a response to the goals of the 3rd Millennium particularly because it concentrates on the management of health issues which have been specified by world leaders on the list of priority issues, as one  of the most important sectors to be treated , right after poverty. Moreover, developing the health sector is  crucial also for improving the conditions of poverty”.

The Arab Family Health Project in addition to AGFUND is co-financed by:

-      the United Nations Population Fund,

-      the OPEC Fund for International Development,

-      the International Planned Parenthood Federation,

-      the World Health Organization,

-      United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),

-      the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences.

The Family Health Project aims to provide reliable information necessary for national institutions to undertake health planning in particular, and development planning in general. Other goals include strengthening national capacities, developing mechanisms and methodologies for research and studies and strengthening efforts of partnership and networking.

The project includes conducting health surveys on all family members and drawing indicators of "health equity", that is, justice in the distribution of health care services and equal opportunities for society members in accessing primary health care measures. It also provides a range of socio-economic and demographic (i.e. population-relation) indicators necessary for drawing up programs and policies at the national and regional levels.

The Arab Family Health Project is an extension of a successful plan adopted by AGFUND, i.e. the Gulf family health project, implemented in the six GCC member states. The project has become part of the League of Arab States structure and divisions. Thanks to such distinction, the Arab Family Health Project is now regarded as one of the most successful projects of joint Arab action. In all dimensions, it responds to the MDG's.

 One of the most significant accomplishments of the Arab Family Health Project is  that it provoked the creation of “The Youth Health Protection Project”. AGFUND is actually participating in this project in collaboration with the International Union for Family Planning.

• In partnership with a multi-indicator cluster survey conducted by UNICEF.