Our Programs
HIV/AIDS
The NGO is established as a regionalized civil society voice with the aim to advance advocacy for the health of community members. We emphasize the importance of dialogue between health workers, health political actors, community, and other interest groups in enhancing wellbeing. Additionally, we promote Universal Health Coverage and advocate for the health rights namely in the arenas of noncommunicable diseases, immunizations, TB, Malaria, and HIV and AIDS. Overall, the basic premise is that healthcare requires people and systems to be connected and responsive to local needs and resources.
Climate Change and Environmental Impact to Health
We are working closely with the EPA education unit to promote the awareness and adaptation programs on climate change by encouraging young people to plant trees and also providing a platform for learning on environmental issues, water sanitation, and hygiene as well as advocating for policy changes.
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As a part of the NGO community in Ghana and Africa, we have had projects in Ghana working on climate change and food security as they related to health development and the value chain of agriculture.
Good Governance and Civic Involvement
Solving problems is not only about interventions, but also means establishing structures and processes that focus on community participation, ownership, and sustainability. This requires the community to understand the values of the decentralized healthcare system to enable them to take control of their health and community issues. This requires local leadership skilled in mobilizing community members to take responsibility for their behaviors and what occurs beyond their own homes.
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Ultimately, an integrated healthcare system includes professional working in concert with informed, trained, and active local leaders, volunteers, health workers, and political actors. As an NGO, we supervise this dialogue to connect the dots in forming good governance and civic involvement.
Immunizations & Nutrition
We support communities in immunization programs through policy reviews and advocacy using community centered development approach. We also work in immunization children under 5 through our Healthy Mother Healthy Child project.
Additionally, CHEP works on Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) towards progress on SDG goals 3, 6, and 13. Interventions in this area include promotion of nutrition sensitive agriculture among the youth population in urban and rural communities to create jobs.
Right to Health
Humans' right to health is a fundamental need of every citizen. This activity seeks to encourage communities and clients in hospital settings to know their rights and responsibilities regarding health and that of their care givers. As part of this activity, outpatients are interviewed to gain an understanding of what they perceive as their rights and responsibilities, enabling CHEP to provide any further education for patient literacy.
Healthy Mother Healthy Child (HMHC)
This campaign seeks to engage women to understand and diminish barriers with maternal and child healthcare. Key health concerns this activity focuses on are child immunizations, nutrition, and child childcare. Further, the campaign provides the opportunity to engage both policy and community actors in the common cause of improving the level of healthcare services and the interactions between healthcare workers and community members.
Identifying Missing TB Cases
TB is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide, with over 25% of TB deaths occurring in Africa. This project is an opportunity to raise awareness about the burden of TB and the status of TB prevention and care efforts. As an NGO we utilize World TB Day as a platform for affected persons, communities, organizations, healthcare providers, and policy makers to advocate and discuss plans for further TB prevention and care efforts. As an NGO, we advocate for support to other national TB control program objectives of ensuring early screening and the enrollment into treatment for notified causes.
Building a Malaria Free Society
Malaria continues to be among the leading course of outpatient ailments in the District of Shai Osu Doku of the Greater Accra region, one of our project sites in Ghana. Pregnant mothers and infants are worse hit by the disease, due to their weak immunity. Insecticidal treated Nets or the continuous intake of Intermittent Preventive
Therapies known as SP or (IPTp ) for pregnant mother are usually recommended. Concern Health Education Project NGO is working in the 15 communities of Shai Osu Doku to mobilize communities and members in the community to adhere to malaria prevention
protocols with particular attention to pregnant mothers.
