Underprivileged Communities
Directing our outreach where the distance between people and healthcare is greatest.
The gap is not evenly distributed
Health outcomes in Pakistan vary sharply by income and geography. For households at the lower end of that distribution, the barriers compound: the nearest laboratory is further away, the journey costs a larger share of income, a day of lost work matters more, and the likelihood of encountering a service in a language and manner that makes sense is lower.
A programme that treats all communities identically will, in practice, serve those who were already best served. Directing outreach deliberately toward underserved communities is what prevents that — and it is the practical meaning of accessibility in our founding objectives.
Principles for this work
Go to people
Remove the cost barrier
Work through local trust
Communicate plainly
Preserve dignity
Measure honestly
The research behind the targeting
Where programmes are directed is informed by our health sciences research on disease burden and access, rather than by assumption.
Areas served will be published here
The communities and districts our programmes reach, and how they were selected, will be published here as programmes are established.