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OFID IN THE FIELD


April 7 marked World Health Day, which every year celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. WHO’s theme for 2019 is: Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere.


While much progress has been made on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 on ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all, people are still suffering from preventable diseases and too many are dying prematurely owing to a lack or shortage of healthcare facilities.


Over the years, OFID has supported numerous health initiatives and projects across the globe aimed at improving health standards and living conditions. Co-financed projects have constructed, equipped and expanded hospitals and health clinics, or renovated ageing facilities. There has also been a strong emphasis on capacity building and supporting primary healthcare programs.


OFID focuses on global, regional and national health initiatives aimed at preventing and treating high-burden diseases, such as HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes. OFID’s commitments to the health sector total more than US$1,037m as of December 31, 2018.


See the following pages for some examples of our work.


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Targeting trachoma in Tigray, Ethiopia


With the help of its partners, Light for the World is working toward eliminating trachoma in the country with the highest burden of the disease in the world. A new phase in the organization’s interventions – supported by an OFID grant of US$500,000 – will see the construction and rehabilitation of water points and latrines in 50 schools in the northern Tigray region to promote better hygiene practices. The aim is to provide sustainable solutions that reverse vicious cycles of poverty.


"W


e see students as the agents of change,” says Rupert Roniger, Chief Executive


Officer of Light for the World – a global disability and development organization. In a simple meeting room in the organization’s


Vienna headquarters, Roniger tells his small audience of colleagues and communication professionals that trachoma is a particularly unpleasant disease caused by poor hygiene. It can result in irreversible blindness by scarring the insides of eyelids, he explains. In the most endemic areas of the Tigray region in Ethiopia, more than 40 percent of the population is affected. Worldwide, the disease has caused 1.9 million people to become blind or visually impaired and it continues to put the health of hundreds of millions of disadvantaged people at risk. It is endemic in 42 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, Asia and Australia. The change Roniger refers to is part his


organization’s drive to contribute to quality, accessible, inclusive and sustainable eye health services in Ethiopia (and beyond). As part of this objective, Light for the World is supporting the country’s neglected tropical disease (NTDs) elimination strategy, with a geographical focus on the Tigray region. “For a new phase of our intervention [Light for


the World has been active in Ethiopia since 1990], we have identified 50 schools in which to improve the water and sanitation situation – involving


teachers, parents and students. These people are the real agents of change in the community and will help to ensure better hygiene practices are promoted more widely. Trachoma has a tremendously negative effect on communities, but this new phase of our intervention targets the source of the problem with the idea that, in time, it will be eliminated altogether. Our program is now more comprehensive and this next phase is a very important piece of the puzzle that has been missing.” Although progress has been made in the last


two decades, trachoma remains the biggest contributor to infectious blindness worldwide. Together with local partners, Light for the World is contributing toward the goal of eliminating blinding trachoma in all endemic countries by the year 2020. This phase of the organization’s Ethiopia intervention is expected to benefit 25,000 schoolchildren and will ultimately impact some 200,000 people in the wider communities.


25,000


Number of Ethiopian children to benefit from this phase of the project


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