One Million Community Health Workers

One Million Community Health Workers

Mbola health team marks World AIDS Day

  On December 1 of every year Tanzanians join other people in the world to mark World AIDS Day. Apart from speeches, testimonies, as well as voluntary counseling and testing, vitamin A supplementation and de-worming for children under the age of five are normally part of the events organized nation-wide. This is a national campaign… [ More ]

The MVP introduces enhanced mobile technology to reduce child and maternal mortality

  Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites. The technology was presented to community health teams at a continent-wide workshop held in Nairobi in February 2010. The ChildCount+ application utilizes mobile… [ More ]

Empowering Local Women to Take Charge of Community Health

  After a few days in the bustling and construction booming city of Addis Ababa, I felt ready to head north, albeit with a few nerves, to the MVP offices located in Hawzien in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. This was not my first rodeo, right after finishing my undergraduate studies, I had lived and… [ More ]

Senegal’s Minister for Health applauds partnership with MVP

The Millennium Villages Project was honored to have Senegal’s Minister for Health, the Hon. Awa Marie Coll-Seck open its annual meeting today in Dakar, Senegal. Minister Coll-Seck, a renowned leader in the fight against AIDS and malaria and former Director of the Roll Back Malaria partnership opened by heralding her country’s partnership with the project… [ More ]

Aspen: Where Passing is Synonymous with Independence

The second day of the race saw riders tackle the toughest stretch in Aspen through Independence Pass. A very enthusiastic community turned out in large numbers to witness this event, and it was all bikes go in solidarity with the racers. As I witness this event more than 10,000 miles from where the effect will… [ More ]