Peru project 527-0297 · 1985 · health systems, policy and finance

OPG to CARE to undertake a community health program in several marginal urban areas of Arequipa, Peru. CARE will implement the project in conjunction with CARITAS and the Ministry of Health. The project will: reorient health posts from a focus on curative services to include health education and preventive health care; promote awareness and use of child health practices including immunization programs, breastfeeding, and oral rehydration therapy; and increase community health and nutrition activities, including planting of vegetable gardens, establishing community kitchens, starting support groups for TB patients, and constructing latrines. CARE will train health workers at MOH health centers and posts and CARITAS-sponsored child feeding stations in child survival techniques based upon the UNICEF concept of "GOBI" -- growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy, breastfeeding and weaning, and immunization. CARE will also provide training to traditional birth attendants. Amendment of 6/25/86 includes the Agriculture Faculty of the University of Peru as an implementing organization and describes the following numerical targets: 7,500 vaccinations; 20,000 oral rehydration solution

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABD-150 (1985). The source's own text.