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Challenges & Constraints
Society for Health Education (SHE) was established in 1988 with the objective of raising awareness on health and social issues among the people of Maldives. The organization aims to foster family well-being in general and in particular empower families and women to make informed choices when seeking services from medical professionals. Awareness raising activities of the organization comprise a wide range of activities including publication and dissemination of print materials, development of radio programmes and organization of public forums. In the absence of health facilities in the majority of island communities, at the time of the establishment of the organization, SHE’s awareness raising activities became popular among disadvantaged and remotely located island communities. These interactions contributed to the launching of parallel programmes on family planning, psychosocial counseling and thalassaemia prevention. At the central level, in Male’, the organization operates a family planning clinic, a counseling unit and a laboratory specialized in thalassaemia screening.
The programmes of the Society are currently formulated on a need-based approach under the four main focus areas. |
