Last week in Addis Ababa, the UN Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria (MDG Health Envoy) released their report Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Investment Case and Financing Recommendations. We were incredibly excited to see the launch of this report and the impact that its findings… [ More ]
Following the Campaign’s South-South Collaboration Workshop in Accra, the team packed their bags and hopped on a short flight from Accra to Kumasi, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana. Kumasi is the central hub of the Ashanti Region, where the Campaign is supporting the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to recruit, train, equip and… [ More ]
This blog post originally comes from Living Goods, a non-profit organization out of Uganda, Kenya, and Myanmar working to build a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Read the original article here. How Living Goods uses smart mobile tools for better health outcomes and real-time data… [ More ]
This week marks our final installment in the Data for Decision Making series! For our final interview we talked with Dr. William (Bill) Brieger, Senior Malaria Specialist at Jhpiego and a Professor in the Health Systems Program of the International Health Department at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For over two decades Dr…. [ More ]
The lack of data on frontline health workers, particularly community health workers, constrains training, service delivery, and decision-making in global health. To better understand why this data is critical, and what can be done to improve it, mPowering Frontline Health workers and the One Million Health Workers Campaign in a series of interviews to hear… [ More ]
