Photo Gallery of USAID Health Programs in India

Following the forum, USAID/India mission staff and local partners visited USAID-supported and funded health activities, including the Gurgaon District TB Center; Michael's Care Home (MCH), a short-term residential care home to provide clinical services for people living with HIV/AIDS; an urban health program at the Bhat Camp Slum Cluster where hygiene, nutrition, and family planning activities occur; and SIFPSA-funded NGO projects where women deal with issues like empowerment, gender dynamics, and early marriage. The meetings bring together women to share reproductive and health issues, experiences and constraints and promotes girls' education.

India's growing population of more than one billion strains resources and complicates disease prevention. Maternal and child mortality rates remain high. Family planning choices are limited, particularly in North India. Polio continues, and a third of the world's tuberculosis cases are in India. India has over 4 million cases of HIV/AIDS, second only to South Africa.

USAID activities increase access to family health care, nourish needy mothers and children and boost their resistance to disease, fight infectious diseases and prevent HIV/AIDS.

	A health worker collects a sputum sample from a local resident		Two women wait to be seen at the center
	A man waits to receive treatment		Sewage runs through the street
	A man is admitted to Michael’s Care Home (MCH)		Income generating activities at MCH
	A woman and her child attend a women’s meeting in Sindhurwa Village		IFPS communications efforts use a "Come, let's talk" theme
	Children collect fresh water in Sindhurwa Village		Dr. Randy Kolstad, USAID Senior Population Advisor in India chats with children in Sindhurwa
	A mother and her child wait for medical attention		A metal bowl is given to children upon completion of their immunization schedule
	Bryn Sakagawa, USAID health policy advisor, poses with children at the camp		A child braves through another day at the Bhat Camp Slum Cluster, Badarpur
	Children walk and sort through human and animal waste and trash		A puppeteer keeps the children engaged at the camp
	A mother and child wait to be seen at the Pulani Boot House		A man sterilizes sheets at Michael’s Care Home (MCH)