Empowering communities towards a healthier and more prosperous future.
Our Mission
The Uzima Foundation was founded with a mission dedicated to leveraging resources, innovation, and creativity to deliver the highest quality healthcare to people across Africa and in underserved communities.The foundation seeks to lead strategic collaborative efforts among countries in Africa and other partners to promote equity in health, to combat disease, and to improve the quality of, and lengthen the lives of the peoples of Africa and underserved communities in the diaspora. Uzima seeks to develop programs which will increase access to healthcare in these communities while allying with a vibrant health education program in the most vulnerable communities.
Early Childhood Healthcare
During early childhood, we develop the foundations that affect our future social-emotional health, learning, and success. Our brains are growing at a rapid pace. This creates a remarkable window of opportunity to influence our future health and well-being.
Unfortunately, services and supports are not equitably available to everyone. This increases racial, ethnic, geographic, and economic disparities in early childhood health.This disparity is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for almost 50 percent of child mortality, although it constitutes only 11 percent of the world population.Uzima Foundation is committed to developing and applying programs that will reduce the gaps s in continuum of care in maternal, newborn and child health.
Healthcare Outreach and Support
Sub-Saharan Africa has a quarter of the world’s disease burden, but just 3% of the world’s health workers. It is well known that infectious diseases such as malaria, TB and HIV are some of Africa’s major health challenges. But now, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension are on the rise. The World Health Organization even estimates that NCDs are likely to overtake infectious diseases by 2030. In 2015, NCDs were also included in the Sustainable Development Goals, under Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages.
With access to quality health services, infectious diseases can easily be prevented and treated and NCDs can be kept under control. This is why one of our top priorities is bringing health care closer to those who need it most.
Community Healthcare Education
Family and community health programs are crucial to meeting public health needs, especially for those living in fragile environments.
The Uzima Foundation works at the community level to promote health, prevent disease and assure that all family members have the opportunity to survive and thrive. In many rural and some urban communities in sub-Saharan Africa access to health is limited. The Foundation’s community health programs will work to improve access and provide health education assistance to improve community healthcare outcomes.
The Uzima Foundation engages both local government and community leaders as partners to help local residents identify their own health priorities and needs, then explore the available local resources to meet them.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
info@uzimahealth.org