Country: El Salvador

Length of Trip: Not available

Trips per Year to Latin America: Not available

Cost: Not available

Urban/Rural: Rural

Type of Volunteer: Healthcare-related trainee

Type of Organization: Secular NGO

Type of Clinic: Mobile or Informal Clinic, Standing Clinic

Description:

In 1986 ASAPROSAR established their first three rural community clinics, trained
indigenous leaders and health promoters. To date they have trained more than 1000 of
their own health promoters and also train health promoters for the Ministry of Health and other Non-Governmental Organizations from the region. Components of Health Program are:

Preventive health
Family nutrition, with emphasis on children less than 5 years of age
Basic Sanitation
Health education and training
Prevention of transmission of HIV/AIDS
Monitoring epidemiology of communities
Prenatal, birth, postpartum care, and newborn follow-up
Monitoring of growth and development, nutritional status, and vaccinations of infants and
children.
Integrated attention to adolescents (reproductive health education, healthy behaviors,
leadership training)
Prevention and early treatment of cervical cancer
Family planning
Intervention for community environmental risk factors (ie.. latrines, waste disposal, water
protection)

Organizational Base: Bradford, Massachusetts

Other Programs: The Barefoot Angels (Abuse/Prostitution), Children and Youth Program, Community Health Program

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