Projects
Eni Foundation, as part of its commitment to promoting children’s health in the most disadvantaged areas, carries out and supports projects aimed at contributing to the improvement of the efficiency of local healthcare systems and to the promotion of effective primary preventive measures by means of:
- supporting epidemiological screening and immunization programs of the main diseases
- strengthening basic healthcare structures by rehabilitating and equipping them
- improving the training and skill level of local healthcare workers through professional training and refresher courses
- informing and promoting awareness among the population on prevention and on healthcare and nutritional education issues.
CONGO- ANGOLA
- INDONESIA
Two projects are currently underway: Salissa Mwana (Let’s protect the children), launched in 2007 to improve child healthcare by means of a vast vaccination and screening program against the main infant diseases in the isolated rural communities of the Kouilou, Niari and Cuvette regions; Kento Mwana (Mother and Child), aimed at reducing to 2-3% the vertical transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child in the same area of the Salissa Mwana project.
The Kilamba Kiaxi mother and child healthcare-nutritional project in Luanda, aimed at reducing the incidence of preventable diseases and of those caused by malnutrition, by strengthening existing primary healthcare facilities, monitoring the most widespread pathologies and setting up immunization and nutrition education programs.
The collaboration with Smile Train Italia to promote the medical treatment of children with severe congenital facial malformations, by creating a center of excellence on cleft lip and palate at the Provincial Hospital in the town of Tarakan, in East Kalimantan.
Contacts
Eni Foundation
Piazzale Enrico Mattei 1
00144 Roma - ITALIA
Tel 06 59824108 - Fax 06 59822106
e-mail: enifoundation@eni.com
Salissa Mwana - Project aimed at improving child healthcare in the remote areas of Congo
Eni Foundation is conducting wide-ranging vaccination and epidemiological screening program against the principal infant disease in the Kouilou, Niari and Cuvette regions.
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