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Mission Statement
Fit, Fast, Forward
About This Cause
PSI India, a non-profit, non-governmental local organisation (NGO) registered under the Indian Societies Act, started operations in 1988 in India. Active in seven states and selected aspirational districts within them, PSI India’s mission is enable people to pursue and lead a healthy and happy life. PSI India transforms the lives of the millions of population in the country by scaling diversified, affordable, innovative health solutions through technology integration and creating resilient health systems by adopting the health system strengthening approach. PSI India complements the efforts of the government of India and state governments in aspirational districts on priority health areas of maternal and child health, AYSRH, WASH, tuberculosis, family planning, non-communicable diseases, etc. PSI India intentionally puts women and girls at the centre of its work and uses high impact interventions and efficient strategies to enable demand aggregation, strengthen supply side and co-create an enabling environment with the government. PSI India’s strength is its human talent and is recognized by the Great Place to Work Institute as a great place to work from past three years. Recently, PSI India has qualified to be certified as one of the first NGOs to be certified as Happiest Places to Work. PSI India’s Work with Public & Private Sector: PSI India has worked extensively with several state governments namely, U.P., Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha along with the central government, and has taken along the private sector. Citing a few examples here: PSI India with SPIRES partnered with the government and innovated for PPIUCD insertion by creating a PPIUCD inserter. With its ease of insertion for the provider, who did not have to bother about first having forceps and second having it sterile, the ‘PPIUCD inserter solution’ gave impetus to the efforts of the government on post-partum family planning. In another partnership with the government of U.P., PSI India successfully synergized the energies of both public and private sector under the BMGF supported 8.5 mln USD EAQ project by devising a technology-based digital solution to increase the participation of private sector in family planning public health schemes and make private sector an extended arm of government health system. This web-based application named, ‘Hausala Sajheedari’ turned out to be a game-changer in the landscape of strategic purchase as it provided swift solution to age-old concerns of accreditation, empanelment and reimbursement faced by the private sector The technology solution was successfully transitioned to SIFPSA under PPIA mode and had accredited over 1000 private providers and empanelled 400 clinics. Integrating family planning with maternal child health, PSI India advanced the patient centered care model through its SPARQ project in partnership with the government of U.P. This integration approach worked well under the Sankalp Project, where PSI India tied up with the private sector, to primarily pilot test the community based approach of ‘screen and treat’ for treating the early signs of cervical cancer (CaCx). PSI India builds up it projects by capitalizing the efforts of all health services, both public and private, to achieve universal health coverage, including efforts focused on primary health care. Family Planning: PSI India is currently implementing a comprehensive urban health program, named “TCI’ (The Challenge Initiative) in sixty-one cities in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha supported by Bayer Pharmaceuticals through the William H. Gates Institute. TCI is the business unusual program, working for sustainable approach and self-reliance in the cities through institutionalization of family planning ‘high impact interventions’ and coaching & mentoring of local government officials for capacity building and capacity transfer to drive the city towards creating a resilient health system for urban health planning, implementation, convergence and review. The strategy of development of master coaches within the system from entry point is driving local ownership and sustainability of the efforts. PSI India’s strong presence and performance has resulted in selection of PSI India as the nodal agency for FP strategies and interventions in Bihar by NHM Bihar. Maternal and NewBorn Child Health: PSI India has successfully implemented one of the largest maternal and child health project, called Women’s Health Project or Pehel (meaning ‘Beginning’ in Hindi) in geographies spread around Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Under this initiative, capacity of providers and PPIUD centres was improved. Additionally, PSI India was instrumental in testing the ‘Safe Childbirth Checklist’ in several geographies of U.P. in partnership with the Harvard University under the Better Birth program. PSI India went on to implement people centric care in a maternal and neonatal health project called ‘SPARQ’ in collaboration with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Further, PSI India has innovated under the Utkrisht Impact Bond to reduce maternal and new born mortality in Rajasthan. The project facilitates private sector small health care organizations (SHCOs) acquire Manyata Quality certification and accreditation in the long run and improve the quality of intra-partum care through increased adherence to essential childbirth practices and sustain quality through accreditation. Manyata is a quality improvement certification offered by Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) to private facilities providing maternal care. Till date, over 185 facilities have become Manyata certified. AYSRH: PSI India, under The Challenge Initiative advanced the mandate of Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) in urban area. It has successfully created AY friendly facilities and rolled out adolescent health days at both facility and community level to create an adolescent friendly dialogue within the community. Communicable Diseases: Tuberculosis: In the space of tuberculosis, PSI India has a rich legacy of partnering & complementing the government’s Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). With support from Global Fund, PSI India implemented Project Axshya, in 60 districts and nine urban cities across ten states of India – Bihar, Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh, where it worked on enhanced accessibility of TB screening, diagnostic and treatment services through public and private sector to achieve the National Goal of End-TB in India. In addition, PSI India also piloted Drug Resistant-TB (DR-TB) Counselling in 30 program districts (out of total 60) in collaboration with Central TB Division (CTD). Home visits were made to 93% households, which led to identification of 12,570 chest symptomatic patients. Further which 7700 sputum samples were collected and transported to the designated microscopy centre (DMC) for diagnosis of TB, leading to identification and treatment of 13% (1012) TB positive cases. After successful implementation of Axshya, PSI India under the SHOPS+ project, developed and demonstrated an innovative mechanism for door-step delivery of services and products (through existing e-market players). The project successfully designed the e-pharmacy model and integrated it with RNTCP model and as a result during COVID phase 1, poor patients residing in select cities of Madhya Pradesh received uninterrupted TB drugs under the e-pharma model. Non Communicable Disease: Cervical Cancer, Diabetes and Hypertension: Under Project Sankalp, PSI India piloted a community-based 'screen and treat' approach for cervical cancer in partnership with the government of U.P. This approach was adopted by NHM, UP, and SIFPSA through 'Sampoorna Clinics.' Project ‘Uday’ was an intensive five-year research program started in 2012 aiming to fight the rising burden of non-communicable diseases in India, with an initial focus on improving outcomes for people with diabetes and high blood pressure. Based on this unique research, report and advocate framework, this program worked to demonstrate a cost-effective scalable comprehensive model for prevention and management of diabetes and high blood pressure.