With severely limited access to basic information on a range of health issues and services —including HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, family planning, nutrition and sanitation, tobacco use prevention, drug use prevention, healthy nutrition, mental heath promotion, sanitation and hygiene -- millions of rural and under-served communities struggle to make informed choices or receive the care and support needed to maintain their health. What’s more, many health issues such as HIV and STIs must be negotiated sensitively among partners and require de-bunking of false beliefs and adoption of new behaviors.
Equal Access works with families, children, doctors, teachers, and policymakers to get health information to make sure Nepal’s children are eating healthy meals, Nepal’s women are empowered with information about their bodies, Nepal’s men are inspired to make choices that promote mental and physical health, and Nepal’s teachers are supported and trained in sexual education and Early Childhood Development. Equal Access imagines a world where not one more child dies of diarreah, not one more woman commits suicide because she thinks she is unable to bear a male child, and not one more man contracts HIV.
