Our Partner: ASSADE

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ASSADE is a rural health organization in Guatemala. ASSADE runs a clinic that offers various outpatient and specialized care services to the indigenous population.

There exist three levels of healthcare: primary care is widely accessible, secondary care is specialized care that typically requires a referral, and tertiary care is highly specialized and is necessarily inpatient care that can only be accessed at a hospital. ASSADE’s clinic bridges the massive disparity in the distribution of the country’s medical infrastructure which receives limited government support and is predominantly concentrated in urban areas, such that the indigenous community’s accessibility to the higher levels of care is extensively obstructed. In particular, ASSADE provides a safe space for women to receive healthcare services such as pap smears, ultrasounds, STD control, family planning methods, natal care, cryotherapy, and cervical cancer screenings such as colposcopies.