Human Rights Day is celebrated on December 10, in commemoration of the day when the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Social Promotion joins this celebration, placing emphasis on the human right to health and well-being (ODS3), guaranteeing a healthy life and promoting the wellbeing of everyone at all ages, and more specifically in relation to reducing some of the most common causes of dead related to maternal and child health or mental health.
Currently, the maternal and infant mortality rate is due to poor medical care. According to data from 2015, the world maternal mortality rate was 216 deaths per 100,000 births. In Africa, only 53% of children born alive have received qualified care. Likewise, the mortality of children under 5 years of age worldwide was 43 deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate represents a reduction of 44% since 2000, but the mortality of children under the age of 5 remains high in sub-Saharan Africa, with a rate of 84 deaths in 2015. With respect to children in the first 28 days of life (the neonatal period), the world mortality rate was 19 deaths per 1,000 live births, and shows the highest levels in Central and South Asia, and in sub-Saharan Africa, with 29 deaths in each of those regions.
In this context, Social Promotion works in Ethiopia with the aim of reducing the maternal and infant mortality rate (neonates and children under the age of 5), and preventing the transmission of HIV from mothers to children.
For this purpose, the provision of quality prenatal and postnatal care programs, programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), and programs for the comprehensive management of childhood and neonatal diseases (IMNCI) for children under the age of 5.
The objective is to offer quality care in prenatal health, during delivery and postnatal in the San Gabriel Health Center; to deal with a comprehensive and complete approach to children under the age of 5 ; and to train the patients of the Center and their companions in health issues.
In addition, for a higher quality of health services in the Ethiopian country, Social Promotion, also with the support of the San Gabriel Health Center, directs its efforts to achieve a proper training of health personnel and support personnel involved in care to the patient. To this end, training courses and quality systems for the management of 11 health centers in the sub-city of Akaki Kality (Addis Ababa) have been carried out.
On the other hand, Social Promotion works in Lebanon to improve mental health. Mental disorders, such as depression, can lead to suicide. In 2015 there were almost 800,000 suicides worldwide; Men are about twice as likely to commit suicide as women.
The work of Social Promotion in this field began in Lebanon in 2015, with emergency actions aimed at improving the mental health of Syrian refugees and the Lebanese host community.
In its commitment to help these groups that suffer mental health problems because of the hard experiences and their difficult current circumstances, the Foundation, in the framework of the project that is carried out together with Médecins du Monde, and in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, continues with the provision of multidisciplinary mental health services and the distribution of medicines.
