WHEPSA-SENEGAL promotes the balance between social and sanitary conditions.
WHEPSA-SENEGAL help the government and the local authorities to make local communities responsible to resolve their health and devlopment issues themselves.
WHEPSA-SENEGAL aim to help government and local authorities to improuve life conditions of populations in general and specially for women, children, teenagers and seniors.
Thus, the driving principles of WHEPSA-SENEGAL are :
- To make populations responsible for defining and taking charge of their own prioritary health issues ;
- To implicate populations in the processes of conception, planification and realisation of all comunitary activities related to health promotion ;
- To realise relationship between communities, local authorities and local health structures for a better synergism ;
- To incrise local expertise and traditionnal knowledge ;
- To develop the involvment of multiple area of expertise within interventions ;
- To improve the self resoultion of health issues by the populations
- To adapte the health interventions with social et cutural realities.
On the health matter, WHEPSA SENEGAL aim in priority :
- maternal health,
- children survival,
- familly planification,
- IST/HIV/AIDS prevention,
- fight against paludism,
- fight aginst epidemics and endemics,
- fight against harmfull practices,
- reduction of poverty,
- devlopment of femal eadership.
In addition to the population involvment within the organisation and the health services management, WHEPSA-SENEGAL emphasizes the setting up of solidarity and maintnance of investments.