Each year, around 9 million children die from preventable and treatable
illnesses before reaching their fifth birthday. Many die during their first
year of life. Countless more children live in precarious situations and face
diminished futures. The handbook, Facts for Life, and other resources provide
vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and
caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can
save and protect the lives of children and help them grow and develop to their
full potential.

Mother and Child Health provides appropriate, affordable and up-to-date
learning material for healthcare workers in under-resourced areas so they can
manage their own continuing education courses which will enable them to learn,
practise and deliver skillful, efficient patient care. Health education topics
include: Adult HIV, Birth Defects, Child Healthcare, Childhood HIV, Childhood
TB, Intrapartum Care, Maternal Care, Mother and Baby Friendly Care, Newborn
Care, Perinatal HIV, Primary Maternal Care, Primary Newborn Care, Saving
Mothers and Babies.

Health Education to Villages (HETV) works within the existing health
framework of developing countries to establish and promote health educational
programs that will provide rapid and long-term capacity-building to improve
health and quality of life, and will give mothers and communities more control
over their status. HETV partners with national and state governments, working
to assist in educating mothers and children, teachers and students, doctors and
village health workers, and a variety of community leaders, in the targeted
areas of nutrition, health, water, hygiene, and sanitation.

We support Healthcare Information for All (HIFA) and believe that every
person and every health worker should have access to the healthcare information
they need to protect their own health and the health of those for whom they are
responsible. We encourage you to join HIFA forums at http://www.hifa.org.