name: HealthNet International
text: HealthNet TPO is a knowledge driven, non-profit organization that works in areas disrupted by war, disasters and poverty. Working together with local populations they channel emergency aid into sustainable health care development. 
  
  They train and encourage the local population to carry out initiatives that combat disease, provide psychosocial care, restore infrastructure and strengthen organizational systems.
  
  Since 1992 HealthNet TPO has succeeded in building and extending durable health structures, as well as starting new programmes.
  
  <U>Disease Control</U>
  
  For over ten years, HealthNet TPO has helped to fight malaria and leishmaniasis in Afghanistan and in refugee camps in Pakistan. Beside the large-scale distribution of malaria nets HealthNet TPO has developed new preventive and curative methods in the fight against malaria. In 10 years malaria has been reduced by 60%.
  
  <U>Mother and Child Care</U>
  
  HealthNet TPO has set up a mother and childcare programme in the twelve health care centres in the province Nangarhar. Afghanistan has one of highest birth - and infant mortality rates of the world. We train local doctors and midwives and ensure the necessary 24 hours service. The Ministry of Public Health meanwhile uses the training programme for midwives nationwide.
  
  <U>Psychosocial Care</U>
  
  Afghan women and children in particular experience mental health problems because of traumatic losses during the war, sexually violence and social isolation as a result of the strict separation between men and women. HealthNet TPO has set up a psychosocial aid programme in 2002, aimed at helping these people process their problems. There is an urgent need for qualified doctors and health care workers. HealthNet TPO trained a core group of twelve Afghan coaches to train counsellors within the local communities ("train the trainers").
  
  <U>Health Systems Development</U>
  
  HealthNet TPO has built a network of primary, secondary and tertiary health care systems for the one million inhabitants of the province Nangarhar since 1995. In regional health centres doctors, midwives and care workers give curative care to the population. We trained doctors and nurses to provide the necessary care. In Koghiani HealthNet TPO extended an existing small hospital, so it can play a central role for the health centres of the villages in the region. The maternity  and gynecology department of the university of Jalalabad provides the most necessary obstetric care. In 2004, the hospital is extended with a department for neonatology.
  
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