Better access to healthcare starts with improving health literacy. In areas with too many patients and too few doctors people suffer or die for lack of information, rather than for lack of medication. In such a setting health information is crucial, but this must be in the language of the user, not of the author…. [ More ]
The Tanzanian government hosted the first multi-country national planning workshop of the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign on April 14-18. Delegates from eight sub-Saharan African countries—Comoros, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zanzibar—participated in the four-day workshop. Country teams worked with members of the Campaign’s secretariat and other partners on plans to scale-up… [ More ]
Unclean water and poor hygiene remain key problems to solve in the Millennium Villages, but Community Health Workers are serving as educators and health advocates to change this. In the process, they are encouraging long-term lifestyle changes and reducing disease incidence. While the seventh Millennium Development Goals’ target is to reduce the proportion of the global… [ More ]
IFAKARA, Tanzania — The Tanzanian Deputy Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Seif Rashid today opened the international workshop on primary health care service delivery as part of the ‘One Million Community Health Workers Campaign’. The four day workshop, the first of its kind, with the support of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development,… [ More ]
As the new Government works out a formula for delivering on the campaign pledge regarding provision of health care, experts say that deployment of community health workers holds the key to extending health care delivery and improving health outcomes. They say there is good evidence that when implemented well, community based health programs reduce infant… [ More ]
