Nature of interventions
1. Awareness generation programmes:

• Nutritional value of vegetables, cereals, and diary products

• Following hygienic cooking practices, making drinking water safe for consumption.

• Ill-effects of consumption of alcohol, tobacco etc.

• Importance of breast-feeding, immunization and family planning methods.

• Care for trouble free and safe pregnancy and child births.

2. Facilitating access to health care through referrals, health camps and training programmes:

• Referrals to health care centres for check up, ante-natal and post natal care.

• Counseling and testing for sexual infections and HIV at ICTC (Integrated Counseling and Testing Centres)

• Adoption of family planning methodologies for women and men

• Training programmes for mid-wives for safe home based deliveries.

• Training programmes to capacitate community based health workers for sustaining health based programmes. identifying health needs of families, and in facilitating referrals to primary health care centers.

• Organizing health camps by mobilizing the support of local stakeholders (private clinics, corporate's) for timely detection and care of various symptoms and illnesses.

Impact of RPDP’s health interventions - Improving health care at grassroots and health infrastructure in villages

• Strong foundation for a sustainable based health care infrastructure in 25 villages.

• Integrating home based health practices based on traditional wisdom.

• Making health care affordable and accessible to families from different socio-economic strata in villages.

• Increase in access to Government supported health care centres, increased immunization of children, zero rate of polio among children, timely detection and care of early deformity among children.