Health is a right and CABDA seeks to improve the overall health care of communities and households.
The focus is on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages on investing in universal health coverage. The organization seeks to align its objectives with the SDG 3 to ensure that it advocates and supports interventions towards achieving health for all. Many households in Western Kenya lack access to proper health services due to poverty, ignorance and lack of information. People fail to seek medical attention because they lack the resources to pay for them. In supporting the improvement of community and household healthcare, CABDA works with other CSOs, county and National government, health institutions (both public and private), adolescent and young people to influence advocacy and change in the health sector.
Through the partnerships and linkages, the organization leverages on existing networks and linkages to mobilize resources towards supporting health care. Where medical attention is required, CABDA works through existing structures such as community health strategy that encourages use of community health promoters linked to health facilities through referrals to ensure that communities take charge of their health issues. This pillar shall also empower members and community health volunteers together with their household’s social- economically.
CABDA also advocates for patients and households to be beneficiaries of the government initiative on Universal Health Coverage and social protection programme to cater for their medical expenses with the aim of safeguarding communities and households against catastrophic costs. Advocacy has been key to lobbying for domestic resource mobilization and the county allocating resources towards health care sustainably done through engaging policy makers at the County assembly to influence budgetary allocations. This pillar focus on communicable diseases conditions including Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDs among other emerging health conditions with a goal of “Improving health care of communities and households in Western Kenya”.
