Improving health
The right to health
You can give women and children a safer, healthier life to live.
Our promise to improve women and girls’ health
Poor health and poverty go hand-in-hand. So CARE fights poverty by improving the health of millions of the world’s poorest people – particularly women and girls. By the year 2020, we commit to helping 100 million women and girls to exercise their rights to sexual, reproductive and maternal health and a life free from violence. Read our 2016 progress report on what we’ve achieved so far.
Child health
Every child deserves the chance to live a healthy and secure life.
Maternal health
Healthy mothers, children and families are the key to a better future for everyone.
Sexual and reproductive health
Every woman and girl has the right to make her own decisions about her sexual and reproductive health.
HIV and AIDS
HIV is more than just a health problem – it feeds a vicious cycle of poverty and injustice.
Clean water
Access to clean water saves lives – and frees women and girls from the daily burden of walking miles to collect water.
Hygiene and sanitation
Better hygiene and access to basic sanitation can save millions of lives every year.
Founded in 1945 to send 'CARE packages' to people recovering from war, we have been fighting poverty in the world’s poorest countries for 75 years.
We work in 104 countries around the world, saving lives in emergencies and finding long-term solutions to poverty for millions of people every year.
We empower women and girls to fulfil their potential – because when one woman is helped out of poverty, she brings her family and community with her.
Your support is what makes our poverty-fighting work possible. You can trust us to spend our funds wisely and effectively to help people in need.