IntraHealth International

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IntraHealth International is a non-profit organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. dedicated to working with developing countries to improve their public health capabilities. Originally established as a program of the medical school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979, IntraHealth became an independent non-governmental organization in 2003. The organization has worked in more than 50 countries, and is currently active in 28.

IntraHealth focuses on:

Developing sustainable human resources for health
Strengthening and supporting primary health care providers
Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Improving maternal, neonatal and children’s health
Increasing access to family planning

IntraHealth is working to increase community health services in Rwanda, with a $34 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.^[1]