Welcome back for this week’s installment of the #addyourcount series! This week we interviewed Mr. Simon Murithi, Project Officer at Amref Health Africa, Directorate of Capacity Building. He has a background in Public Health and a keen interest in the integration of ICT to strengthen community and health systems. Currently, Simon is managing local and regional… [ More ]
Written by: Amy Veinoglou, 1mCHW West Africa Portfolio Manager On September 16th, the 1mCHW Campaign team joined the Ghana Health Service (GHS) senior management and representatives from the Ministry of Labor’s Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to visit the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) site in Amansie West District. The visit was organized by the 1mCHW Campaign… [ More ]
The next interview in our #AddYourCount Series is with Mercy Owuor, the Community Programs Director of Lwala Community Alliance in Kenya. Lwala’s goal is to “build the capacity of the people of Lwala, Kenya, to advance their own comprehensive well-being.” What are some of the services provided by your current CHW program? Lwala Community Alliance… [ More ]
Welcome back for this week’s installment of the #addyourcount series! This week we interviewed Elia Msegu, project manager of AMREF Health Africa’s Tanzania program. What are some of the services provided by your current CHW program? The CHWs in our program provide immunization services, act as community-based distributors of modern family planning services, and help… [ More ]
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 ]
