Although the WHO has provided a commitment towards the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health as one of the fundamental rights of every human beings under its constitution and the commitment is being reaffirmed by the member state in every World Health Assembly and other international gathering; majority of the population, particularly in developing countries and also in India has been denied health care as a basic human right and human security. The chronic poverty and disproportionate disparity have disfranchised the poor to avail of minimally needed health care and support.

The inequalities in health statues and unequal access to health care services, have been more glaring incase of women and girls, while the women from poor families with cumulative social, economical, educational and cultural deprivation are severely effected by the denial of or limited access to affordable and available health care facing the burden of maternal mortality and morbidity. The adolescent girls (particular in unprotected environment) face a multiple health risk; which include early child marriage; early motherhood, early child bearing, unwanted pregnancy, forced prostitution, trafficking, child labour, sexual abuse and violence, unsafe abortion, STIs and HIV infection, and above all the denial of friendly information and services. The deep social prejudices against girls have also led to feticides and infanticide, even as reported among the educated population. The infant and child mortality are the other major health problems. The women have also little say in the fertility regulation, thereby adversely effecting population stabilization.

Women and health
The Organisation has been according strategic priority in its programme and policies to women and health.

SANKALP has been designing and implementing innovative, decentralized and gender-sensitive health progarmme in coordination with grass-root women and community-base organistion addresses the needs of women through out their lives and taking to account their multiple roles and responsibilities.

The Organisation has been taking a life-course approach to women’s health by recognizing interrelated stage cross the life span; rather than reducing women’s health to women’s reproductive health.

All the policy level the Organisation has been striving to remove all barriers to women’s health services and to provide a broad range of health care services particularly to the women in disadvantages and difficulties. The users’ right to gender women health matter to be taken.

Expanding access to primary health care
The Organisation has been making efforts to provide more accessible, available and affordable primary health care services of good quality, which includes; family planning information and services.

Health training progarmmes are also being organized for health workers and grass-root social sectors Organisations to raise the awareness to gender sensitive health programmes and to underline privacy and confidentiality in information and services; and to provide interpersonal and communication skills to respond to the needs of primary health care.

Adolescent health and development
Adolescent, youth and young people are the most neglected population groups in the country’s health strategies; they lack the necessary support for their development; including access to information, skills and health services.

Three major principle guide SANKAP’S activities on adolescent activities on adolescent health and development, these include; i) addressing inequalities and facilitating the fulfillment of human rights as stipulated in internationally agreed human rights instruments the conventions on the Rights of the Child; ii) taking a life course approach that recognizes the continuum from birth through childhood, adolescent and adulthood; iii) implementing a public health programme that are revenant and effective in addressing major health issue relating to adolescent and young people.