One Million Community Health Workers

One Million Community Health Workers

1mCHW Campaign South-South Collaboration Workshop Report is Now Available!

The One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign has finally released a report on the outcomes from its 2015 workshop, Financing Community Health Worker Systems at Scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report shows that there is a timely opportunity to invest in government-led scale-up of community health worker programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Released today, the… [ More ]

#AddYourCount Series: Community Health Global Network

Welcome back for this week’s installment of the #addyourcount series! This week we interviewed Elizabeth Wainwright, Managing Director of Community Health Global Network (CHGN), and Walter Rutto, a CHGN Cluster member in Kenya. CHGN’s mission is to “encourage communities to recognize their assets and abilities, identify shared concerns and discover solutions together, in order to… [ More ]

#AddYourCount Series: Living Goods

1mCHW is excited to be kicking off a new blog series called #AddYourCount, which is focusing on providing an insider view to CHW programs and the work that they are accomplishing on the ground. The first interview in our series is with Alfred Wise, the Country Director of Living Goods Branch in Uganda. Living Goods… [ More ]

Update from the field: CHWs in Ghana Provide Critical Health Services

Hello everyone, my name is Katy Iglehart and I am the West Africa Portfolio Intern with the 1mCHW Campaign. I spent a month in Accra, Ghana, supporting the Financing Community Health Worker Systems at Scale in sub-Saharan Africa conference, and then spent a few weeks in Kumasi, Ghana, helping conduct a situational analysis with the… [ More ]