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Power of Community: How Engagement Leads to Better Outcomes in Preventive Health
The existing healthcare system is supply-side driven with little or no participation from the demand side.
Shaping tomorrow: Important for Corporate Responsibility Programmes to redefine Indian parenting duties
Another study on urban Indian parents titled ‘Indian National Parenting Survey (2018)’ showed that mothers make up 91 per cent of primary caregivers while fathers accounted for only 2 per cent.
Leveraging Technology to Encourage Community-wide Behavioral Change in Health Practices
In India, technology helped streamline the healthcare system, reduce the burden on hospitals and ensured patients received the care they needed.
HUL Lifebuoy, GAVI to take ‘Safal Shuruaat’ campaign to Indonesia
Hindustan Unilever Lifebuoy and GAVI are scaling up their partnership under the "Safal Shuruaat" campaign to take it to Indonesia, and it is expected to start there fully by next year
Safal Shuruaat (‘Successful Beginning’)
"Several social and religious constraints act as barriers to immunisation uptake. Breaking down misunderstandings and finding a way to leverage or transform social norms becomes critical if we are to increase the uptake of vaccines."
Promoting handwashing with soap & immunisation: GAVI-Lifebuoy partnership
GAVI and Lifebuoy launched an innovative partnership in 2017 to protect children under five from illnesses. By promoting handwashing with soap and immunisation together - two of the most critical and cost-effective child survival interventions.
- Safal Shuruaat, A Joint Health Programme By Unilever’s Lifebuoy And GAVI- The Vaccine Alliance, Leverages Digital Technology To Empower Rural Communities In Uttar Pradesh. Gallery
Safal Shuruaat, A Joint Health Programme By Unilever’s Lifebuoy And GAVI- The Vaccine Alliance, Leverages Digital Technology To Empower Rural Communities In Uttar Pradesh.
Safal Shuruaat, A Joint Health Programme By Unilever’s Lifebuoy And GAVI- The Vaccine Alliance, Leverages Digital Technology To Empower Rural Communities In Uttar Pradesh.
Lucknow: The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically transformed the world, highlighting the need to reimagine the role of information technology and digital literacy. Leveraging this acceleration in the use of digital platforms for communication.
Handwashing for life
According to UNICEF, every 30 seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from pneumonia or diarrhoea. They are two of the top killers of children, with over 1.2 million under five dying each year.
Successful parenting – Harnessing aspirations to save lives in rural India
India, one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, still loses 300,000 young lives each year to pneumonia and diarrhea, diseases that we have the tools to prevent. If practiced together, handwashing with soap at key occasions (HWWS) and complete immunization.
Safal Shuruaat leverages digital technology to empower rural communities in Uttar Pradesh
May 2023, Lucknow: The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically transformed the world, highlighting the need to reimagine the role of information technology and digital literacy. Leveraging this acceleration in the use of digital platforms for communication was the need.