'Primary Health Care' offers a way of preventing as well as curing health problems and can be made available to everyone. It can take many forms, such as:

• Training village health workers to diagnose and treat common diseases, and provide family planning services.
• Supporting and using traditional healers and medicines that are available locally.
• Providing access to the 200 essential drugs recommended by the World Health Organisation.
• Ensuring a clean, regular water supply and an adequate diet for everybody.
• Immunising against childhood diseases.
• Educating people so they understand the causes of ill-health and can learn about how to lead a healthy lifestyle to avoid illness.