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Action Research & Training for Health

Udaipur, India

Grants

2021 (2 years)
$900,000

The Action Research and Training in Health (ARTH) is a non-profit organization in India that provides equitable and integrated primary healthcare to underprivileged communities in remote and inaccessible districts of Rajasthan. ARTH’s support spans across four domains – Sexual and Reproductive Health, Neonatal and Child health, Health of Older Persons, and Health systems policy. Since early 2020, ARTH has expanded its services to provide primary and recuperative care for CoVID patients in the communities it serves. This award allows ARTH to expand these services to a larger number of patients across a wider geography in the state.  In addition, the award enables ARTH to build resilience to effectively respond to future disease outbreaks by establishing teams of trained community healthcare workers who will continue to work with communities beyond the current CoVID-19 upsurge. The award contributes to the Foundation’s goal of improving access to resources for immediate COVID-19-related public health challenges while simultaneously advancing new models, policies, and infrastructure for greater public health equity and resilience in the future.

2014 (6 years 4 months)
$316,000

The grant will support ARTH to develop a model to improve the quality of referrals and emergency obstetric care in three districts in the state of Rajasthan. The project will build greater community participation in prompt referral; introduce a 24x7 telephone helpline and deploy helpline workers to help families navigate emergency care; conduct periodic health facility assessments to improve quality of referral and emergency maternal care; and document narratives of referral and emergency care as experienced by families to provide feedback to the public health system.

2010 ( 11 months)
$350,000

To support the purchase of office space, partial construction costs for a field campus, and a contribution to the endowment.

2010 (4 years 8 months)
$375,000

To improve the quality of maternal-newborn health services, and pilot an intervention to improve young women's access to reproductive health services in Rajasthan (over three years).

2006 (4 years 10 months)
$230,000

In support of a project to enhance the skills of nurse-midwives to provide a continuum of maternal-newborn health services in a primary care setting in southern Rajasthan (over three years).

2001 (6 years 9 months)
$175,000

To reduce maternal mortality in rural Rajasthan (over three years).