AUEED provided health services to poor people in Upper Egypt since its establishment by Fr Ayrout. He accompanied volunteers from Cairo to provide these services in Upper Egypt villages. The program was further developed in the eighties of the last century to include 3 pillars: School health, Mother and child health, and Low-fee Medical Services. In 2004, the program started working with people with disability.

AUEED aims, through this program, to empower the community - especially children, women, and people with disabilities - to build their basic health knowledge and access various governmental and non-governmental health services in order to improve family health in Upper Egypt through:

First - School Health Program:

The school health aspect handles prevention from disease through awareness raising and the application of a child-to-child approach, as well as treatment and nutrition for those suffering from anemia and malnutrition, in the poorest villages that suffer from a lack of health services. Efforts are made in 26 Formal schools: in Menya, Assiut, Sohag, Qena and Luxor, in addition to 17 parallel schools in Menya, Assiut, and Sohag

Second - Mother and Child Health Care

 “Mother and Child Health Care” assisted 20 maternal and child care centers around villages and cities of Upper Egypt, working on the health of pregnant ,lactating mothers and children (one to two years old), as well as early detection and intervention to help children with disabilities, through a Capacity building program (portage), the speech program, the functional program for severe motor and intellectual disability (cerebral palsy), physical therapy for motor disability, assistance to integrate the disabled person in social and educational activities, working with mothers of children with disabilities, and with those who are about to marry to raise their awareness of reproductive health.

Third - Dispensaries

The Association runs 5 clinics and analysis laboratories in 5 poor villages, most of which do not have health service centers. This year, the dispensaries provided health services for a nominal fee to about 9,828 beneficiaries of all ages through different specialties: ophthalmology, dentistry, ear, nose and throat, and internal medicine, and women, urinary tract, bones, and analyzes