OPIS Foundation

  The Opis Foundation is committed to providing health care to the world's most medically underserved children and their families through the development and support of   innovative primary care, medical programs, education and awareness.

Children's health focuses on the well-being of children from conception through adolescence. It is vitally concerned with all aspects of children's growth and development and with the unique opportunity that each child has the ability to achieve their full potential as a healthy adult.

For too many children in poor rural and urban areas, there is no consistent, quality health care in their lives. The end result is too often the same. Children lack the essential health services to grow and thrive. In the most heartbreaking scenarios, they develop life-threatening illnesses-or lifelong conditions-needlessly, for want of decent health care.

There is a huge and growing gap between the rate at which children are dying in poor versus rich countries, and a new study finds that this poor-rich divide is even greater within third world countries.¹ Children are mainly dying from prenatal problems such as: pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and malnutrition.  Which all are easily preventable.

The circumstances leading to children's deaths include unhygienic and unskilled delivery practices, incomplete vaccination, poor feeding practices, failure to sleep under treated bednets, and failure to receive the right medicine for pneumonia and fever in time. At least 6 million of the 10 million childhood deaths that occur each year can be prevented with existing technologies and systems.

The Opis Foundation is taking dramatic steps to prevent children dying including reaching every child and mother, starting in pregnancy, with life-saving knowledge and health care and encouraging families, communities, and health systems to provide children with timely immunizations, feeding, care, and medicines.