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How Your Support Helps

Your contribution to the PAHEF Child Survival Campaign helps:

  • Vaccinate babies against preventable diseases
  • Improve nutrition and hydration for newborns
  • Support mothers, families, and communities in creating healthy environments
  • Train health care workers to treat causes and not just symptoms
  • Provide long-distance training for physicians in rural areas
  • Empower communities and their leaders to support primary care practices
  • Lower the rate of avoidable death among children under the age of five.

What Your Money Buys

$25 Immunization for 16 children against measles and rubella
$50 167 oral rehydration packets to treat dehydration caused by extreme diarrhea
$100 7 long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets to effectively protect children from mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite
$250 20 textbooks for medical/nursing students
$500 125 delivery kits to help mothers have safe, clean deliveries (each kit contains gloves, soap, scissors, and plastic sheeting)
$750 2 days worth of public service announcements broadcast in indigenous languages in any of the Andean countries to publicize vaccination locations
$1000 A contribution to the creation of infection control study modules as part of the development of a national training program for medical students

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