ACCESS Program - ACCESS Partners

Jhpiego, an international health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., builds global and local partnerships to enhance the quality of healthcare services for women and families through training and support for healthcare providers including doctors, nurses, midwives and health educators working in limited-resource settings throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

Jhpiego has Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, HIV/AIDS, and Family Planning and Reproductive Health to strengthen services to women and families in more than 40 countries around the world.

Save the Children is a leading nonprofit humanitarian relief and development organization working in more than 40 countries throughout the developing world and the United States. Our mission is to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need. Saving Newborn Lives is Save the Children's global initiative to improve the health and survival of newborns in the developing world.

Constella Futures (formerly Futures Group) specializes in the design and implementation of public health and social programs for developing countries. We work with government agencies, foundations, corporations and nongovernmental organizations to address conditions that compromise the well-being of people around the world. Founded in 1971, Constella Futures has worked on projects in more than 100 countries. Areas of program concentration include reproductive health, the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other communicable infections, and maternal and child health. We provide services in public policy development, strategic planning, estimation of resource needs, advocacy and community mobilization, social marketing, and research and evaluation.

The Academy for Educational Development (AED) is an independent, nonprofit service organization that is committed to solving critical social problems in the United States and throughout the world through education, research, training, social marketing, policy analysis and innovative program design and management.

In partnership with our clients, AED strives to:

meet today's social and economic challenges through education and human resource development;

apply state-of-the-art education, training, research, technology, management, and communication techniques to solve problems;

improve knowledge and skills throughout the world as the most efficient means to stimulate growth, reduce poverty, and promote democratic and humanitarian ideals; and

serve our institutional partners with expertise, creativity, commitment, and integrity.

With roots dating to 1929, the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is the oldest women's health care organization in the U.S. ACNM provides research, accredits midwifery education programs, administers and promotes continuing education programs, establishes clinical practice standards, creates liaisons with state and federal agencies and members of Congress.

The mission of ACNM is to promote the health and well-being of women and infants within their families and communities through the development and support of the profession of midwifery as practiced by certified nurse-midwives, and certified midwives. The philosophy inherent in the profession states that nurse-midwives believe every individual has the right to safe, satisfying health care with respect for human dignity and cultural variations

IMA World Health is a nonprofit organization providing comprehensive technical and material assistance for overseas health programs of partner churches, faith-based development and relief organizations, and public and private agencies with similar goals. Major activities focus on disease elimination and treatment; strengthening health care systems; procurement of medicines, medical supplies and equipment; and serving as liaison between international funding entities and overseas health-related community organizations, with emphasis placed on partnership, technical exchange, training and capacity building. As a Member association of 12 Protestant relief and development agencies, IMA World Health works through a worldwide network of faith communities affiliated with its Member agencies.