Prava

Health and Hygiene: Health and health care remains a big issue for rural communities. Diseases like T.B., Malaria and diarrhoea continue to claim many lives each year. These communities also have no access to health care. Government programmes dealing with this issue do not reach all. Women's health problems also need to be addressed with greater urgency. HIV/AIDS and its increasing incidence are taking on epidemic proportions. The HIV/AIDS infected/affected people are socially discriminated and economically marginalised.

Hence PRAVA worked to

• Increase awareness of rights and duties.
• Increase the outreach of health care facilities.
• Build awareness on health and related issues.
• Train health workers / service providers to provide better service to a community.
• Check the spread of the AIDS and HIV through awareness programmes.
• Activate the government health system through lobbying, advocacy and people's participation.