In Afghanistan people have very limited access to health care facilities. The rural Afghans have little knowledge of basic health issues, use of safe water for domestic sanitation and personal hygiene, and use of medicine. In an effort to improve the health, nutrition and reproductive health condition of the rural Afghan, the health programme provides an essential package of health services through (1) community based care, and (2) facility based care in collaboration with the public sector and other agencies in Afghanistan.

The community based Health Care project provides services to people's doorsteps through health volunteers. The static/mobile clinics provide facility based care to the patients referred by the community health volunteers, local field workers and staff of other agencies. Female community health volunteers (CHV)

implement health programme activities at the grassroots level. She provides basic curative care for common diseases, promotes and provides contraceptives, identifies pregnant women and provides support for pregnancy related care, mobilizes children for immunisation and ensures Directly Observed Therapy (DOTS) for tuberculosis patients in TB affected areas, provide health education, compiles records on births, deaths and migration. This programmes has Community Health Workers (CHW) who are the secondary level of health care within the community and support and supervise the health volunteers.

Community based Health Project is integrated with Microfinance programme and beneficiaries can also take advantage of other BRAC development programmes. They are trained by medial doctors from the formal BRAC health care centre. They facilitate separate male and female health discussion forums to raise awareness and support for community-based health initiatives. The health initiatives aim to offer health services to as many people as possible by providing services through different tiers of the country. BRAC has initiated information, education and communication (IEC) activities to increase awareness among communities and foster support from locally available health services.