Month: April 2014

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to greet you on behalf of HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) & Visakha HRIDAY-SHAN. HRIDAY is a Delhi based voluntary organization of health professionals, social scientists and lawyers, engaged in activities aimed at prevention and control of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) through health promotion in multiple settings including schools, workplaces and communities. Adolescents and children are at the heart of HRIDAY’s work, which emphasizes on building life skills for youth to voice their health priorities and contribute to the global health and development agenda. HRIDAY works in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. The programme has been listed as a ‘best practice’ model and recommended for global replication by WHO, which has also awarded HRIDAY-SHAN the Director General’s Certificate of Appreciation in the area of tobacco control in 2002. HRIDAY has also been awarded the Best Practices in Global Health Award (2011) by the prestigious Global Health Council (www.hriday-shan.org<http://www.hriday-shan.org>). As an offshoot of HRIDAY, Delhi, Visakha HRIDAY-SHAN (Student Health Action Network) has been active since 2004 and is organizing various health promotion activities in Vizag with youth as the Ambassadors. read more