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What we deliver

Four decades, four pillars

Couple-years of protection added. Pregnancies averted. Nets in homes. SFH measures impact in the outcomes that actually move public-health needles — here’s how the work shows up.

  1. A community pharmacy proprietor stands beside a branded 'Family Planning Services Available Here' sign — one of the outlets through which SFH delivers its family planning programme.

    Programmes designed for outcomes

    Pillar one · How we design

    Public health isn’t activity-counting. SFH programmes are designed around the outcome metrics that actually move needles — not the input ones that don’t. Every programme carries a measurable target, a clear theory of change, and a published result.

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  2. SFH Access warehouse — pallets of boxed health commodities stacked on blue racking under a corrugated roof, ready for last-mile distribution.

    Last-mile distribution

    Pillar two · How we deliver

    Commodities only matter if they reach the household. SFH Access to Health handles procurement, warehousing, quality assurance, and last-mile delivery across the region — from regional hubs all the way down to community outlets.

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  3. Independent measurement

    Pillar three · How we measure

    The SFH Institute of Public Health runs evaluations, operational research, and routine monitoring — so impact is measured, not assumed. Findings feed back into programme design and are published openly for partners and peers.

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  4. Open annual reporting

    Pillar four · How we report

    Every year, audited financials and programme outcomes go into a public annual report. Donors, partners, and journalists see the same numbers we do — and we’ve kept that record unbroken every year since 1985.

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Key results

Outcomes that compound

Forty years of consistent delivery — the numbers that show up, year after year, across the SFH network.

Each year50M+Lives reached.

Across SFH’s five country offices and the donor-funded portfolio — counted, evaluated, and published every year since 1985.

  • Cumulative since 198520M+Long-lasting insecticidal nets distributed
  • Each year5M+Couple-years of protection added
  • Each year1M+Unintended pregnancies averted
  • Each year2M+Disability-adjusted life-years averted

Cumulative and annual figures drawn from our most recent annual report. Numbers are approximate and updated each reporting cycle.

Programmes

Eight thematic areas. One operating model

SFH’s portfolio is organised around the conditions that drive the most years of healthy life lost in our communities — from family planning and maternal care to TB, HIV, and the diseases of climate and water.

Supporting programmes

  • Diarrhoeal Disease

    ORS and zinc distribution, community case management, and prevention messaging to bring down childhood diarrhoea mortality.

  • Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

    Household water-treatment products and behaviour- change programmes for communities without reliable safe-water access.

  • Tuberculosis

    Active case-finding, treatment support, and community awareness — integrated with HIV services where co-infection burden is highest.

  • Non-Communicable Diseases

    Screening, lifestyle counselling, and access to care for hypertension, diabetes, and other emerging NCDs across our country offices.

Research & publications

Evidence from the field, published openly

Programme implementation generates data — and SFH publishes it. Operational research, programme evaluations, and routine monitoring all feed into a public library of reports, factsheets, and the SFH Papers working series.

Our research priorities follow the programmes — methods for reaching adolescent girls and young women, durability of LLINs in the field, integration of TB and HIV services, the economics of last-mile commodity distribution — and inform practice across the SFH country offices.

  • Annual reports
  • Factsheets & briefs
  • SFH Papers (working series)
  • Quarterly newsletters
  • Programme evaluations