By Sara Leonard | Development Specialist
Four years ago, Project HOPE’s India team launched Project UDAY, a comprehensive diabetes and hypertension prevention and management program supported by Eli Lilly and Company. UDAY, meaning “dawn” or “sunrise” in Hindi, was designed with the overarching goal to prevent, detect and reduce the risk of diabetes and hypertension among program participants in Vishakhapatnam, in the state of Andra Pradesh, and Sonipat, in the state of Haryana. Our team developed an evidence-based approach for training community health care workers and enhancing the skills of health care professionals to address NCDs which it has been busy implementing.
“Project HOPE’s approach in UDAY is mobilizing patients through patient networks and at the same time strengthening the service delivery via health care workers,” said Cheena Malhotra, Program Manager for Project HOPE India. “Project HOPE has been very pleased with the success of the program where participating health workers showed 95% of improvement in knowledge on the posttest verses 15% at the beginning of the training.”
Thanks to donors like you, we will be able to continue strengthening the health systems capacity in these two states in India in order to bring about long-term and meaningful benefits for people at-risk of or living with diabetes. To learn more about Project UDAY and our work in India, check out our website!
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