UNFPA Reproductive Health Campaign for Adolescents.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. The UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programs to reduce poverty, unwanted and unsafe pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS in young people.
| Public Health: UNFPA Reproductive Health Program |
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The Project |
- Began in May 2008 in Urubamba
- Carried out by NeVo, with support from the United Nations Population Fund
- Public health initiative to promote preventative reproductive health care among young people in Urubamba and raise awareness about sexual and reproductive health, enabling adolescents to make educated decisions and better control their futures.
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Progress |
- Carried out reproductive health classes in high schools in Urubamba
- Held informative sessions in the community
- Began developing between schools and the Health Center of Urubamba
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Goals |
- Evaluation to see what students have learned, retained, and applied
- Continue classes in schools and community sessions based on evaluation
- Submit proposal for UNPFA funding
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Open Positions |
- Two public health educators to teach classes and to help with the evaluation of the effectiveness of the program
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Medical Missions.
| Public Health: Medical Missions |
The Project |
- Began in February 2010
- Carried out by NeVo and volunteers from Howard University medical school in Washington, D.C.
- Project promotes volunteering and collaboration between foreign medical students and local medical professionals in order to benefit health of rural populations
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Progress |
- In February 2010, 19 last-year medical students helped NeVo to carry out the first community health campaign, in which the students provided community medical revisions in order to evaluate the most urgent health problems in the population and indicate courses of treatment
- Medical revisions were carried out in various communities throughout the Sacred Valley
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Goals |
- Improve the quality of medical care in rural areas of the Sacred Valley with the support of foreign medical students interested in contributing directly to the betterment of the health conditions of Andean communities
- Evaluate most frequent and urgent health problems in region’s communities
- Indicate medications and procedures necessary to treat patients’ illnesses and injuries
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Open Positions |
- Medical students from all areas of medicine, does not matter what year of school they are in
- Especially need students studying to be mental health practitioners
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Assisting a Physician in Urubamba
Peru is the fastest growing country in South America, however the social and cultural rights have not been strengthened and there is still 40% of Peruvians living in poverty.
The health care system represents one of the most important but poorest sectors of the Peruvian national services. The lack of assigned resources and the scarcity of personnel is a reflection of it.
The Health Centre of Urubamba, managed by the Ministry of Health, has been registered as a Centro de Capacitaciones (Medical Training Centre) and is seeking for motivated and hardworking medical students and nurses who would like to work as volunteers.
Volunteers will help in daily duties and in some medical campaigns. Furthermore, volunteers will have the opportunity to have a direct learning experience from the medical doctors at the Health Centre.
