A new project kicks off in Iraq to protect the mental and reproductive health and provide psychosocial support to displaced Iraqi families who are returning to areas liberated from Daesh. 

Salamtak III (Your Health) is the third phase of the program funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), which will run for the next 12 months in Iraq, in Nineveh Governorate, with the aim of providing psychosocial support and reproductive health to displaced Iraqi families who are returning to areas liberated from Daesh. 

The intervention in the past years improved access to primary and secondary health services for more than 12,000 people, in Hamdaniya district, Bashiqa and West Mosul area, targeting the host community and displaced people who are returning to their homes, in addition more than 3,000 women and adolescents have accessed reproductive health and psychosocial support services in the 3 intervention areas, and individual psychological care has been provided to more than 1,800 people.

In this III phase, on the other hand, the presence of medical staff and psychologists at 3 Centers in Mosul district, as well as social workers (Primary Health Care in Hermat in West Mosul, Primary Health Care in Nimrud, Hamdaniya, and Ma'an Na'ud center in Bashiqa, Mosul sub-district) will be supported. Within this intervention, a new Department of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support of about 200 sq. m. will be built and equipped at Al Salam Teaching Hospital in Mosul, allowing an increase in users (of services offered) of about 277 percent. During the year, some 2,950 women and adolescents between Mosul, Nimrud and Bashiqa will have access to reproductive health services, along with 727 children who will benefit from access to pediatric services at the Bashiqa center. While psychosocial support will enable the implementation of 318 group support sessions and 843 individual counseling sessions for individuals. Awareness and prevention campaigns will reach about 5,640 people.

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