BOLIVIA
Women in rural Bolivia face immense barriers to accessing healthcare access and the essentials they need to care for themselves and their families. We partner with rural communities, healthcare providers, and Bolivia’s Ministries of Health and Environment to integrate improvements in access to clean water, sanitation, health literacy, and reproductive healthcare into comprehensive, holistic solutions for entire communities that can be sustained long after we leave. Since 2010 we have:
- Provided 3,000 women with access to long-acting reversible contraceptive options.
- Partnered with communities to bring clean water and improved sanitation to 3,325 families.
- Trained 3,500 local providers in life-saving obstetric emergency and neonatal resuscitation skills.
- Equipped 11 healthcare networks and 131 providers with the training and supplies needed for cervical cancer screening and preventive treatments.
- Sponsored 58 communities to train and support local community health workers.
PAKISTAN
In 2009, we completed a month long midwife training program that educated 12 women to serve as birth attendants for their isolated communities in Northwest Pakistan and Northeast Afghanistan in cooperation with Central Asia Institute.
MOROCCO
In 2010, working with Atlas Cultural Foundation in the Atlas Mountains, GMEF helped identify needs for a midwife training program and worked with the Ministry of Health and local birth attendants.
NICARAGUA
Working with a local health cooperative in Mulukuku, in 2008, Dr. Reid helped train young physicians in obstetrics and contraception.
