A pilot project started in 2008, provides the most vulnerable families in mining areas with professional training, basic equipment and economic coaching.
UNICEF provided the team with basic equipment and restored the premises for training in the only surviving gym in war-torn Grozny.
The primary care health services are provided by "village doctors" who are not qualified physicians by Western standard but are healthcare workers with limited medical training, basic equipment and a restricted pharmacopeia [ 12, 14].
In recent years, the project has gone full steam, rehabilitating clinics and hospitals, and providing them with basic equipment, medication and training for medical staff.
It is supplying the centres with essential drugs, basic equipment, support and training for health workers and therapeutic supplementary foods such as UNIMIX and Plumpy'nut, a vitamin-rich peanut paste.
They often lack the most basic equipment and are chronically understaffed by poorly trained, overworked healthcare personnel.
Although transport and service vouchers were provided only in the intervention arm, health facility strengthening (health worker training, provision of basic equipment and supplies, and support supervision) was done across both intervention and control arms.
In addition, UNICEF supplies essential drugs, basic equipment, support and training for health workers, as well as supplementary foods such as Unimix, a fortified flour, and Plumpy'nut, a vitamin-rich peanut paste.
Two research training facilities and one clinical research site have been upgraded and most laboratories were refurbished with basic equipment and information technology support systems.
