PRIDE Project Annual Report

Primary Healthcare Revitalization, Integration and Decentralization in Earthquake-affected Areas (PRIDE) is a USAID-funded project to improve primary healthcare services and health outcomes in Bagh and Mansehra districts of Pakistan.

PRIDE came into being in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on 8 October 2005, bringing devastation to a 30,000 sq. km. area, killing 75,000 people and leaving 3.5 million homeless. Loss of habitat and infrastructure was enormous: 600,000 homes, 6,000 schools, and nearly 800 health facilities were destroyed.