PUBLIC HEALTH
Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

The world’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations lack access to even the most basic health services. IRT develops efficient and effective public health programs to meet the needs of these people.

Providing Hope for Children Living with HIV/AIDS
Life-saving anti-retroviral drugs (ARV), recently made available to African nations, are helping to shift the focus away from death and dying for children victimized by the AIDS pandemic. IRT’s innovative support programs help hundreds of these youngsters by providing life-skills training, conducting ARV and AIDS education, and providing educational opportunities so that these boys and girls can become healthy, active, responsible members of their communities

Promoting Healthier and More Prosperous Communities

• IRT helps eliminate the source of diseases such as dysentery, diarrhea, and hepatitis that afflict many families living in unsanitary conditions by constructing clean water systems and sanitation facilities.
• IRT provides direct financial assistance to resource-poor communities for improvement of community infrastructure.
• IRT trains community health workers to teach families in poor communities the importance of taking personal responsibility for their health, so that community attitudes and values toward health and health care are transformed.
• IRT supplies medicines to hospitals and clinics in developing countries to alleviate shortages so that local health providers can effectively fight disease and illness in their communities.
• IRT provides food to families living with HIV/AIDS to strengthen them against the disease, and to communities in remote regions experiencing food shortages.

Since 1988, 254 teams, involving 1,414 volunteers, have participated in International Relief Teams’ public health projects worldwide.

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