Plan International works on various health projects around the world including providing essential medicines in Kenya, building and equipping health centers like one in northern Brazil, and educating communities on health and hygiene through games and sessions in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Indonesia. The document highlights examples of Plan's work improving access to healthcare, distributing medical supplies, conducting health training courses, and supporting facilities that help people with disabilities gain independence.

1. Health See Plan’s projects in action Working towards health: Badhu Devi, a volunteer Plan International Community Health Worker for the past 11 years, uses this medical kit to help care for children in her village.

2. Essential medicines: A health worker in Kenya distributes HIV and AIDS drugs, which is just one of the essential health services they provide.

3. Healthy babies, healthy communities: A baby is weighed at a health centre, built and equipped by Plan in northern Brazil.

4. Safe and healthy mothers: Pregnant women from Nepal meet to discuss how they can be safer during delivery and stay healthy after.

5. Hygiene games: Plan celebrates Global Hand-washing Day in Bangladesh by setting a world record, raising awareness about hygiene at the same time.

6. Standing on her own two feet: Rukhsana was born disabled, but thanks to programs at a Plan-supported clinic, she is now able to sit, stand, eat and write independently.

7. Pedal power: Bicycle powered ambulances in Zambia transport patients from their homes to a health centre.

8. Health smarts: Community members attend a Plan-supported health and hygiene session at relief camp in Pakistan.

9. Emergency care: Plan-supplied water and hygiene kits help to bring Haiti's deadly cholera outbreak under control.

10. Learning to care: Home-based caregivers display their certificates awarded after attending a Plan training course.

11. Under the net: Plan staff demonstrate how to use a mosquito net and educate community members about the importance of protecting children from malaria.

12. Focus on abilities: Children with disabilities in Egypt learn and play at community-based rehabilitation facility.

13. Bananas make healthy treats: Plan helps provide a nutritious lunch for students in a remote rural area of China.

14. Little doctors: Children in Indonesia play a game of snakes and ladders to learn about basic health and hygiene.

15. Getting tested: A patient gets tested for HIV as part of a Tanzanian program to prevent transmission of the virus from mother to child during and after pregnancy.

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