BRAC initiated its health programme just nine months after its inception through health care centres. BRAC's health programme provides preventive, curative, and rehabilitative grassroots health services that have proven effective in the past. Lessons learned from the past enabled BRAC to restructure the BRAC health programme to cope with demands of national priority and policy and for this purpose it has strengthened its partnership programmes with the government through various national health initiatives. Building on the experience of past successes, the health programme has evolved and responded to emerging national health problems and scaled up former pilot projects. Today, BRAC offers comprehensive health care to 31 million people, but through Tuberculosis (TB) control programme it reaches 82 million people. |