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Social Activities

Social Activities

Completed Projects

Gujarat Health System Development Project

  • Community Health Awareness and Action promoted by Young Adults (CHAAYA) in Saurashtra
  • Maternal and child Health: AKHSI implemented the project in rural Vadodara (Gujarat) in 2015-16. The key interventions included building capacities of frontline workers, behavior change communication through IPC with pregnant women and children. The project was implemented with support from CSR of Crompton Graves.
  • The study is to improve the maternal and child health status, access to quality health services through promotion of preventive and promotive positive health behaviors in un-served and underserved areas of Kodinar block, Junagadh district in three years.
  • Effectiveness of diet and lifestyle intervention through Information Education Communication (IEC) tools with Anganwadi centers as the center of knowledge dissemination for hypertension (including hypercholesterolemia and diabetes) risk reduction- A cluster randomized control trial, ICMR
  • AKHS, I implemented the Gujarat Health System Development Project (GHSDP) from 1998-2004 to improve health status of 86,000 rural residents, primarily women of reproductive age (15-45) and children under 3 in Saurashtra, Gujarat
  • A study of prevalence of thalassemia in Porbunder.
  • A Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Menstrual hygiene management amongst adolescent's girls in Saurashtra
  • Prevalence of tobacco consumption and its pattern among higher secondary school children in ward Mumbai.
  • A Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Menstrual hygiene management amongst adolescent's girls in six schools of E ward, South Mumbai.

On Going Projects

  • Intervention to decrease tobacco consumption in schools
  • Intervention in 200 schools of ward A, B, E and F/South including MCGM schools.
  • More than 20000 school children are direct beneficiary
  • More than 200 teachers trained in tobacco control
  • Free tobacco cessation service provides