Snehita Projects

Snehita Women's Health Foundation has launched the outreach program REACH. Respond | Empower | Act For Community Health — and thus Reach Every Home. REACH program is envisioned to initiate genuine dialogue that propagate accurate and correct information which helps the needy to receive right guidance and appropriate medical services. Snehita will be provided training programs by eminent doctors on Cancer, Reproductive Health and Life Style Diseases which in turn each dedicated Snehita creates an optmistic environment by providing guidance to the health needs of individuals in their vicinity.
Snehita launched the REACH program on 18 February 2018.It was indeed a great start for Snehita's new initiative.The participation was overwhelming.The REACH Program is envisioned to initiate genuine community participation, strengthen early detection messaging, and support women in accessing timely care through outreach, education, and follow-up.

Snehita Women's Health Foundation proudly announces its partnership with RTI International and the National Institutes of Health, USA for the development, evaluation, and implementation of a mobile phone based oncology education platform for doctors in low and middle-income countries, the initial phase of which is in Kerala. Dr Regi Jose,Medical Director of Snehita is the Lead Principle Investigator from India. Other partners include World Health Organization- IARC, Regional Cancer Centre,Thiruvananthapuram,Gokulam Medical College,Govt.Medical College,Thiruvananthapuram,Government of Kerala Health Services,Indian Medical Association and Studio Medica.

The International Innovation Grant (IIG) provides research funding in support of novel and innovative projects that can have a significant impact on cancer control in low and middle-income countries.It is intended to support proposals that have the potential to reduce the cancer burden in local communities, while also being potentially transferable to other low or middle-income settings. This year five researchers across the globe have been awarded IIG.
Snehita Women's Health Foundation was the implementation partner of prestigious NIG grant award on mHealth in collaboration with RTI International which was named as MOncoEd a mobile application, was developed and used to train primary care physicians on early detection of Breast,Cervix and Oral Cancers(2016-2019) U.S. National Institute of Health(R21CA224387).This award supports validation of a breast cancer risk assessment tool tailored for Indian women using large cohort data, strengthening evidence-based screening and counselling.