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The NHEC is at present implementing the following health programs to meet the needs of the communities where its member and affiliated organizations are based. And these programs are also aiming at health development in the ethnic nationality areas in Burma and for future democratic federal union of Burma.

Health Programs

• Health Material Assistance Project: The Health Assistance Project (HAP) of NHEC has been distributing basic health supply, such as essential medicines and medical supplies for health workers and clinics in conflict zones, ethnic regions and Internally Displaced People’s areas of Burma.
• Health Seminars and Local Health Workshops: Development of health management guidelines, health policy formulation and networking in health
• Continuous Education Program for Health Workers: Development of education/ learning materials for basic health workers, Conducting Workshops and integrated skills trainings, Training of Trainers.
• Health Information System Development: Data collection and health information training, health survey.
• HIV/AIDS prevention project: Trainings for trainers and community based educators, community workshops and, development of IEC materials and training curriculum.

Target Area

Ethnic nationalities areas along and within the various Burma borders namely Mon, Karen, Karenni, Shan, Kachin, Chin, Arakan, and other nationalities through extensive networking of member and affiliated organizations of the NHEC.

Target Group

The entire project of NHEC will indirectly target to approximately 2 million populations in ethnic nationalities areas along Burma borders and inside Burma through extensive networking of member and affiliated organizations of NHEC. Its primary target areas are in the regions where there are many diverse ethnic populations living in hardships and struggling to survive. As a coordinating body, NHEC regularly facilitates meeting of these diverse communities, inclusive of ethnic nationalities, refugees and migrant populations and provides opportunities for all the communities across the borders to come, meet and share their experiences and work together for a better Burma.

Recent events have demonstrated that Burma is going to face complicated political, environmental and social crisis. NHEC has learnt from the events such as Saffron revolution and cyclone Nargis that people inside Burma are in need of supports. As such, NHEC has repositioned the projects to be inclusive of communities beyond members’ organizations’ areas. NHEC committee has recognized to support such communities in crisis and in need, and is now involved with local community based organizations (CBOs) for inland activities. NHEC will extend current health and educational projects to be part and parcel of communities in crisis anywhere inside Burma.