Organization
Gateway Health Institute (GHI)
Mission
Our Motto, Your Health. Your rights are core to what we want to achieve. We aim to have a positive impact on the health and rights of hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations through advocacy, community empowerment projects, knowledge management, research, and innovative technology.
Organizational Expertise
Capacity Building, Health, Lab or Field Testing, Research
Technologies & Fuels
Natural Gas / Methane, Solar
Clean Cooking Activities
More than 50% of premature deaths due to pneumonia among children under 5 are caused by the particulate matter (soot) inhaled from household air pollution.
According to the WHO, around 3 billion people still cook and heat their homes using solid fuels (i.e. wood, crop wastes, charcoal, coal and dung) in open fires and leaky stoves.
Such inefficient cooking fuels and technologies produce high levels of household air pollution with a range of health-damaging pollutants, including small soot particles that penetrate deep into the lungs. In poorly ventilated dwellings, indoor smoke can be 100 times higher than acceptable levels for fine particles. Exposure is particularly high among women and young children.
Partnership
We are a member of the pneumonia innovations team of the UN's Special Envoy for Health MDGs and Malaria and received a people's choice award at the 2015 World Pneumonia summit. for our innovation to treat childhood pneumonia. We are specifically interested in continuing our work to prevent and treat childhood pmeumonia in LMICs.
Regions Operating In
Sub-Saharan Africa
Country Based In
South Africa
Address
432 Fred Nicholson Street
Mayville
Pretoria, South Africa 0084
Website
Primary Point of Contact
Name: Dr. Coenie Louw
Title: Executive Director
Email: louwc@ghi.ngo
Phone: +27795067954
Secondary Point of Contact
Name: Mrs. Betsie Koekemoer
Title: Finance Officer
Email: betsie@ghi.ngo
Phone: +27745295890
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