AWARE Health and Research Foundation is an AWARE GROUP organization registered under Section 8 (previously Sec 25) of the Companies Act. The Foundation is continuously engaged in health promotion and medical services activities since its inception.

The Foundation conducted health awareness and health promotion in rural areas. It also trained community health workers at the Rural Hospitals and imparted health promoters training to several young men and women at the AWARE Bhagwatipuram Campus. AWARE Health & Research Foundation promoted National Health Promoter network for those individuals who are engaged or involved in health-related activities at rural and semi-urban areas.

AWARE Health & Research Foundation established several health centers in many parts of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and a few in Odisha. Medical professionals from allopathic as well as alternative systems of medicine such as Ayurveda and Homeopathy were also trained and engaged in rural health maintenance and reconstruction activities. Some of these health centers later continued their activities independently even after support from the Foundation concluded.

Presently, the Foundation is managing Rural Hospitals at Padkal (in Mahabubnagar District), Kunavaram (Khammam District), Chinnapuram (Krishna District), Yedulapuram (at Khammam District) and Kamalapur (Parlakhemundi of Odisha State). These hospitals were established from year 1979 onwards.

The Jeevana Shravanthi Boat Hospital of AWARE is very unique and served medical and healt needs of Tribals along river Godavari for three decades. AWARE Hospitals - a 300 bed multi-super specialty hospital of AWARE Group at L.B. Nagar, Hyderabad is presently managed under lease.

AWARE Health & Research Foundation regularly conducts free health camps at different locations. During these health camps services of specialist doctors such as physicians, gynecologists, cardiologists, ophthalmologists, dentists are made available. Apart from health check-up and advise for further management, free medicine is also distributed during the health camps. The patients requiring further treatment are advised to utilize Arogyashree scheme of the Government and take further steps in improving the health.

AWARE Health & Research Foundation is implementing the Adivasi Mahila Pragathi program on awareness, use and supply of sanitary napkin at Tribal areas of East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. This program is sponsored by GAIL India Limited under CSR partnership. The Foundation has developed its own brand of Sanitary Napkins for this purpose and also for supply of sanitary napkins as a social enterprise. It was involved in relief and rehabilitation activities during natural disasters such as Krishna and Kerala floods, providing sanitation, hygiene and medical needs for victims in affected areas.

The Foundation took up Covid19 prevention and relief program at East Godavari and Krishna districts of Andhra Pradesh, Khammam, Ranga Reddy and Bhadradri-Kothagudem districts of Telangana.

• Focus area Health & Medical Services. Health includes preventive and maintenance, community health and training of health workers. Medical Services include Rural Hospitals, Health Camps
• Footprint in terms of established infrastructure covers Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha. Significant work in Tribal and Rural areas of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha
• Parent Organisation AWARE has a legacy of 45 years, commencing from the year 1975
• Parent Organisation has established para-medical institutions offering B.Sc. Nursing & B.Sc.MLT programs
• Developed own brand of Sanitary Napkins

AWARE has designed and implemented wide range of development activities as part of its integrated development approach. Health is one of its development agendas. When AWARE, the parent organisation grew in scale in terms of types of activities and coverage spanning thousands of villages across few states, associate organisations were established to focus on specific development activity such as Health.

Hence, though AWARE Health & Research Foundation as in independent entity was established in 1994 as an offshoot of AWARE, the experience of the Group in development sector is of 45 years.

AWARE Health & Research Foundation has a wider geographic footprint, is well received in rural and tribal areas due to its broad-based socio-economic development programs and is therefore capable of achieving the desired impact among the target population. It has health and medical infrastructure in the form of rural hospitals across three states and five locations.

The Foundation has proven and time-tested track record in successful program implementation. AWARE Group along with its Founder and Chairman, Dr. P.K.S. Madhavan are recipients of 35 National and International Awards including from four Presidents of India, the Chief Justice of India, Governors, His Holiness Dalai Lama. Independent studies and reports on efficacy, impact and sustenance of AWARE programs have acknowledged the significant contribution of AWARE to nation development and sustenance of development even after withdrawal of AWARE from target areas.

The Foundation is well established in terms of capacity and experience to offer meaningful partnerships with the Corporate in human development for implementing wide range of development activities across a larger geographic area.