Health & Nutrition
Enabling individuals and communities to optimise their health and wellbeing and live life to the full.
The Aga Khan Foundation works with households, communities, governments, and our partner network to enable people to be healthy and stay healthy: especially women of childbearing age, vulnerable children under five, and adolescents navigating the complex pathway to adulthood.
We focus on strengthening population and community health, addressing health and nutrition inequalities and improving access to, and utilisation of, integrated health services, while also addressing the broader determinants that impact on health and nutrition outcomes.
A given population suffering from illness and high mortality frequently thinks its greatest health need is for a hospital. In fact, invariably the greatest need of such a population is not for a building, but for assistance in identifying its health problems and in designing solutions to them. In becoming part of the quest for answers to its health problems the community becomes part of the solution.His Late Highness Aga Khan IV
Improving quality of life
Worldwide, we currently support health and nutrition and water and sanitation programmes and services that reach over 13 million people.
Our Goals
Improved access and utilisation of integrated health services
By supporting new and existing health facilities and equipping health workers with locally relevant skills
Improved nutritional status of women, newborns, children and adolescents
By offering nutritional screening and counselling, diversifying diets and improving access to water and sanitation services
Improved adolescent health and well-being
By delivering targeted health programmes for young people
Our impact in 2024
Our impact in 2024
- 9.3 million People directly and indirectly supported to improve their health and nutrition, 53% of whom were female
- 3.3 million Children, adolescents and pregnant women accessed nutritional screening and counselling, 54% of whom were female
- 2.1 million People accessed safe drinking water and quality sanitation services across 5 countries (Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Syria, and Tajikistan)
Our Health & Nutrition programmes address the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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