Access
Geographically and socially accessible care, supported by community-based navigation and referral pathways.
Creating Access
to Healthcare
We provide essential healthcare services, focusing on preventive care, mental health, and holistic well-being.
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Healthcare that works for everyone.
Access
Bringing timely, affordable, and appropriate care within reach of communities long shaped by geography, cost, and social barriers.
Inclusion
Health systems designed to respond to the realities of rural households, informal workers, persons with disabilities, trans persons, and tribal communities.
Continuity
Prevention, referral networks, and ongoing support that guide families through care rather than stopping at a single visit.
By the Numbers FY 2025-26
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AAROGYA SARTHIs supporting access to healthcare and essential services
Five pathways to community health.
Community-Owned Healthcare
Hospitals and primary care infrastructure governed by community health committees. The SUHAM hospital and its mutual health model illustrate how community ownership can strengthen access to affordable and accountable care.
Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health
Sexual and reproductive health awareness, menstrual health, maternal care, and integrated nutrition programmes that address anaemia and malnutrition among women and children.
Mental Wellness
Community-based mental health interventions including peer counselling, mental health clubs, awareness campaigns, and rehabilitation support for persons with mental illness.
Inclusive and Affirming Care
Trans-affirmative healthcare, tribal community health, and rehabilitation support for persons with disabilities, ensuring care is accessible, inclusive, and responsive to diverse needs.
Social Protection and NCD Screening
Unified help desks connecting families to ration cards, Ayushman Bharat, widow pensions, and disability benefits, alongside community-based screening for diabetes, hypertension, and anaemia.
Programs shaping AAROGYA.
Each initiative is co-designed and implemented with community-rooted organisations that help shape, strengthen, and sustain the work over time.
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SUHAM Healthcare Ecosystem (ENABLE + ACCESS)
ENABLE focuses on nutrition programmes addressing anaemia, malnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies in women and children, through community-based distribution and awareness campaigns. ACCESS operates a community-owned hospital and mobile clinic with a mutual health insurance model, where ₹300 for a five-member family provides free consultations, affordable medicines, lab tests, and referrals. The hospital is governed by an Executive Health Committee, a group of women who lead the institution.
SUHAM Trust
Chengalpattu and Salem, Tamil Nadu
20,000 households accessing sustainable healthcare · 65% anaemia reduction
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Vadivam Trans Health
Trans-affirmative healthcare help desks, navigation support for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatment, awareness programmes in health facilities, and sensitisation of healthcare providers. Vadivam creates enabling environments where trans community members can access dignified care without discrimination.
Transgender Resource Centre (TRC)
Madurai, Tamil Nadu
7,000 individuals engaged through help desk services, treatment support, and awareness · 5 healthcare facilities now trans-friendly
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Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
SRHR awareness programmes, menstrual hygiene management, maternal health support, and NCD screening through health camps. The programme integrates livelihood support to improve socio-emotional and economic well-being, recognising that reproductive health outcomes depend on more than medical care alone.
Arunodhaya Centre for Street and Working Children
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2,965 individuals accessed healthcare · 63% improved awareness of reproductive health · Integrated livelihood support for 500 women
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Integrated Social Protection and Health Initiative
Unified Help Desks support enrolment in welfare schemes such as ration cards, Ayushman Bharat, widow pensions, and disability benefits, while raising awareness of social protection and providing navigation support. Health camps screen vulnerable women for non-communicable diseases including diabetes, hypertension, and anaemia.
Swasti
Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu
15,500+ individuals accessed services · 9,500+ enrolled in social protection schemes · 6,000+ screened for NCDs
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Community-Based Rehabilitation for PWMIs (Persons with Mental Illness)
Community-based rehabilitation for persons with mental illness (PWMIs), alongside awareness programmes to reduce stigma, caregiver support networks, safe spaces, and integration into community life. The programme works with families and caregivers as much as with individuals, recognising that mental health care depends on supportive social systems.
Association for the Physically Disabled (APD)
Salem, Tamil Nadu
500 PWMIs supported through rehabilitation · families and caregivers trained · stigma visibly reduced · 3,000 individuals reached through awareness
I became a community health connector after I was trained as a lay first aider. Before this, I was struggling to support my family and had little confidence. Today, I earn an income, support my daughter’s education, and help people in my village access healthcare when they need it. I visit households regularly, provide basic first aid, identify health concerns, and guide families to the right health services. When someone is unsure where to go or afraid to seek care, they come to me. Being from the village, people trust me. I feel respected, confident, and proud that I can support others while standing on my own.
Community ownership, and AAROGYA SARTHIs.
The strength of AAROGYA lies in the people and structures that carry the work forward.
Community health committees help govern local health infrastructure, while AAROGYA SARTHIs serve as trusted navigators who connect families to care, support preventive health practices, facilitate access to social protection, and strengthen continuity of care.
Together, they help ensure that health systems remain inclusive, accessible, and rooted in community priorities over time
