•  General cleanness/ hygiene
•  Awareness against communicable    diseases.
•  Polio/EPI
•  Typhoid
•  Dysentery
•  Malaria
•  Measles
•  Diarrhea
•  Scabies
•  Hepatitis
•  Tuberculosis
•  ARI etc.

•  SGs are based on the catchments area of BHUs with members from 15-25 persons from each section of the community i.e. elders, councilors, leaders, students, religious people, local teachers etc.
• SGs help PPHI in arranging community/school-madrassa health sessions, M&R etc.

Acknowledging the break down of Management Services as the basic issue in the provision of Primary Healthcare in Pakistan, the Federal Government, through the Special Initiatives Division, launched a country wide Program to be known as the President's Primary Healthcare Initiative ( PPHI ). In the NWFP and FATA, the Program was, practically, initiated in 2007 when the respective district governments and DoH, FATA transferred funds to PPHI.

The basic objective of the PPHI is to improve health service delivery at the primary level through improvement of management of the health institutions. For this purpose, Agency/ District Support Units ( A/DSUs ) have been established in each selected District/ Agency to take over the management of Basic Health Units ( BHUs ).Agency/ District Support Manager ( A/DSM ), who is head of the A/DSU, is responsible for the smooth provision of Primary Healthcare Services to the rural population, majority of which is poor and resource-less.

As a matter of policy, the Government considers it as an essential initiative for the alleviation of poverty. PPHI endeavors to achieve this objective through improvement in the basic infrastructure of the health facilities, ensuring availability of medicines and staff and by coordinating various activities relating to the healthcare service delivery at primary level including promotive, preventive and curative healthcare.. The Program is fully owned, and funded by, the Federal and Provincial Governments.

After induction of the new Government, the Program has been re-designated as the People's Primary Healthcare Initiative and attached with the Cabinet Division, Islamabad

The focus of the PPHI is to provide quality healthcare services through efficient and effective service delivery system that is accessible, equitable, acceptable, affordable and sustainable. PPHI strives to improve the health facilities in the rural areas, primarily focusing on curative care, along with the system of outreach activities for provision of preventive and promotive services keeping in view the following guiding principles;

•  Efficient Human Resource Management,

•  Enhanced Community Participation,

•  Local Resource Mobilization,

•  Promoting Communication Channels.

To bring the PHC infrastructure to an optimum level of performance in terms of all the eight constituents of the PHC, and, to assist in re-engineering the (district) health management and to hand over vibrant and highly integrated RHFs to a reformed management, within the assigned time.

The PPHI program has the following objectives;

• Improvement of basic hygiene.
• Adequate supply of drinking water.
• Participation of population.
• Health and hygiene education.
• Appropriatemethods of treatment
• Maternal and child care, including reproductive health and family planning.
• Improvement of nutritional status.
• Expanded program of Immunization (EPI).