Highlight Of Current Works

• Prioritized HIV Prevention and treatment Services for Key populations in Bangladesh

• Prevent new HIV infections and reduce incidence by improving and expanding access to combination HIV prevention (including comprehensive harm reduction) services for KP;
• Increase case-finding among KP by improving and expanding access to differentiated HIV testing services (HTS);
• Improve access, adherence to and quality of ART services for KP in need, lowering HIV-related morbidity and mortality and reducing onward transmission of HIV; 
• Strengthen community and government health systems, empower marginalized communities to claim their right to health in a stigma-free environment, and improve linkages and cross-referrals and build capacity to manage and deliver HIV services;
• Advocate for legal reform at the policy level and advocate and engage with local gatekeepers and law enforcement agencies to reduce stigma and enable implementation of HIV services for KP;
• Improve systems for M&E and strategic information (including updated IBBS data (ongoing under current grant), a revision of size-estimation data (using OP funds) and operations/implementation research). 

• Urban Primary Helath Care Services Delivery Project- UPHCSDP-II

         Improve accessibility (financial and physical) to PHC services in the urban areas covered by the project

         Ensure the delivery of quality PHC services to urban populations-the project will ensure essential service delivery package (ESD+) focused maternal and child health in urban areas, particularly for the poor

         Increase the utilization of PHC services by the urban poor, especially women, new-born and children

         Strengthen institutional arrangements for the delivery of PHC services in urban areas

         Increase capacity of the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to ensure the delivery of PHC services, according to their mandate

         Increase sustainability of the delivery of urban PHC services by strengthening ownership and commitment of the ULBs to ensure the delivery of PHC services particularly for the poor

Light House has been awarded for implementing the UPHCSDP-II project in Rangpur City by Partnership Agreement with the Rangpur City Corporation from August 2019. Its purposes are to improve the health of urban poor by improving access to the healthcare services, and changing the ways through which health services are provided in the urban areas. Its aim is to improve the reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health & nutritional status; to reduce vulnerability to the communicable diseases; to combat the non-communicable diseases; and to enhance the quality of life of the target population who are living in urban setting. The project Service delivery model to utilizes frontline health workers and health centres, connecting them with the public health facilities to improve access, coverage and quality of health services at both individual and at community level.

Light House UPHCSDP-II project is working in Rangpur City Corporation covering the 15 wards (16-30 no. Ward) through 4 Static clinics (CRHCC-1, PHCC-3) and 36 Satellite Clinics. A total 85 staffs were actively working this project.

The components of this project include comprehensive reproductive health care services, Family Planning services, Adolescent Reproductive health care, Child health care, Limited curative care, Communicable disease control, STI/RTI prevention program, Violence against women, Tuberculosis control program, primary eye care services, Medicine distribution, Education on health awareness, counselling, provision of clinical and pathological services, disease identification through pathological test, provide treatment or refer for better services. We have behaviour change communication activities through field and clinic level. 

• Accelerating Universal  Access to Family Planning,  Shukhi Jibon

Most at Risk youth & Adolescent-10000

Parents & stakeholder – 3000 

• Increase health seeking behavior of 25,000direct beneficiaries who are especially vulnerable including most at-risk youth and adolescents including transgenders, lesbians, RMG workers and parents and community leaders on SRHR services through creating awareness and making them empowered
• Create functional referral linkage with 25 public and NGO facilities for providing SRHR services to 15,000 targeted youths and adolescents
• Sensitizing 5,000 stakeholders for ensuring increased access of especially vulnerable including most at-risk youth and adolescents including transgenders, lesbians, RMG workers to SRHR information and services.  
• Connect 100 young advocates and policy makers for fostering supportive policies to promote youth and adolescents’ health and rights through print and electronic media 
• Create mass awareness to change community norms related to gender, adolescent sexuality, early marriage, and childbearing using media platform 

• Promoting Peace and Justice-Bogura

b). Increase awareness of legal rights to access legal aid services to the poor, women, children, religious and ethnic minorities and other marginalized groups as well as the acceptance of the use of the formal justice system among communities. 

• Promoting Peace and Justice-Tangail

b). Increase awareness of legal rights to access legal aid services to the poor, women, children, religious and ethnic minorities and other marginalized groups as well as the acceptance of the use of the formal justice system among communities. 

• Strengthen organizational capacity of dealing SRHR project for young people

1. Promoting Peace and Justice-Meherpur

b). Increase awareness of legal rights to access legal aid services to the poor, women, children, religious and ethnic minorities and other marginalized groups as well as the acceptance of the use of the formal justice system among communities.