NEW YORK, September 25, 2014 – Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University will lead a team at the NGO Millennium Promise to support the Government of Guinea in its rapid Ebola response. The work, which begins immediately, will focus on four core activities: The rapid design and implementation of a real-time, national-scale informatics system. Based… [ More ]
As World Contraception Day approaches, the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign would like to highlight the positive effects contraception has had on increased birth outcomes and children’s health. Community health workers (CHWs) have been pivotal to these efforts. They provide much needed access to contraception and family planning methods and play a central… [ More ]
From August 27th – 29th Dimagi, Inc. and the Grameen Foundation hosted a MoTECH Suite Workshop in Accra, Ghana that was attended by our field specialist, Amy. MoTECH Suite is an open source software platform that enables organizations to deploy and manage a wide range of mobile health (mHealth) applications. The MoTECH Suite Workshop explored… [ More ]
Countries around the globe are working together to strengthen health systems: last week we celebrated the 500-day milestone until the target date to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As the development community transitions to a new framework, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we at the One Million Community Health Worker (1mCHW) Campaign wish to… [ More ]
Recently at the Kenyan Ministry of Health, stakeholders came together to help develop more concrete, nation-wide standards for Community Health Services (CHS). Our field specialist, Ivy Mushamiri, attended the event and updated the team here at the One Million Community Health Worker (1mCHW) Campaign on Kenya’s community health worker (CHW) policy progress. In 2010, Kenya… [ More ]
