Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is a private not-for-profit health care organisation. Building on the Ismaili Community’s health care efforts in the first half of the 20th century, AKHS provides primary health care and curative medical care in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, and Syria.
Its primary health care programmes are designed to reach vulnerable groups in society, especially child-bearing women and young children, with low-cost, medical technologies: immunisation, systematic prenatal care, aseptic deliveries, and oral rehydration therapy for diarrhoeal disease. AKHS’s overall major initiatives currently include:
- Assisting communities to develop, manage, and sustain the health care they need.
- Providing accessible medical care in modern, efficient, and cost-effective facilities.
- Working in partnership with other agencies in the development of communities and the enhancement of their health.
- Educating physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.
- Conducting research relevant to environments in which AKHS institutions exist.
- Contributing to the development of national and international health policy.
AKHS is one of three agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that support activities in the field of health, the others being the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), and the Aga Khan University (AKU).
WWW site includes an overview of AKHS activities.