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. |
| Partner Type | Implementer |
| Organization Type | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organizational Expertise | Capacity Building, Health, Lab or Field Testing, Research |
| Technologies and 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 |
| Countries Operating In | South Africa |
| Address | 432 Fred Nicholson Street
Mayville |
| City | Pretoria |
| State/Province | South Africa |
| Postal Code | 0084 |
| Website | http://www.ghi.ngo |
| Primary Point of Contact | |
| Salutation | Dr. |
| First Name | Coenie |
| Last Name | Louw |
| louwc@ghi.ngo | |
| Phone | +27795067954 |
| Secondary Point of Contact | |
| Salutation | Mrs. |
| First Name | Betsie |
| Last Name | Koekemoer |
| betsie@ghi.ngo | |
| Phone | +27745295890 |
