In celebration of Kenya’s upcoming national launch of the CHT-based electronic community health information system (eCHIS), we’re reflecting on the breadth of Medic’s more than decade-long commitment of collaboration and impact in-country. In part one, we highlighted Medic’s journey supporting community health in Kenya. In part two, we highlighted our …
In celebration of Kenya’s upcoming national launch of the CHT-based electronic community health information system (eCHIS), we’re reflecting on the breadth of Medic’s more than decade-long commitment of collaboration and impact in-country. In part one, we highlighted Medic’s journey supporting community health in Kenya. In part two below, we highlight …
Medic & Living Goods’ Partnership Championing Digital Community Health in Kenya Read More »
In celebration of Kenya’s upcoming national launch of the CHT-based electronic community health information system (eCHIS), we’re reflecting on the breadth of Medic’s more than decade-long commitment of collaboration and impact in-country. In part one below, we highlight Medic’s journey supporting community health in Kenya. In part two, we highlight …
Empowering Digitized Community Health in Kenya: Medic’s Journey of Impact and Growth Read More »
The Government of Mali is taking a bold and progressive stance in reforming its health system, placing a priority on complete digitization of community-level health to improve planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting on progress towards maternal and child health outcomes, particularly the availability of actionable data for decision-making. Mali is …
Through the Bayer Foundation-funded Digital Health Ecosystem (DHE) project and in partnership with PATH, Medic launched the Community Health Toolkit Entrepreneurship Accelerator (CHTEA).
Technological stewardship has been key in advancing different areas of our lives; from improving access to information, resources, and most importantly health. As we celebrate the gains made, we also recognize the need to continuously ensure that even the hardest to reach communities are equipped with the necessary skills that …
Providing first mile healthcare in Diapé, Adzopé District- Côte d’Ivoire Read More »
The Service Designers at Medic are spread across four countries, where our team lives and works closely with our implementing partners and the communities we serve. The core mandate of the team is to create designs for strengthening community health information systems, to enable sustainable and equitable universal access to …
Meet the team: Jane Katanu, Service Design Manager Read More »
Health systems, in their current forms, exclude people from care. However, a global network of 3.3 million Community Health Workers (CHWs) – committed and trusted members of the communities where they live and work – are an integral part of a new model of proactive and patient-centric care, one that …
Equipping CHWs with tools in Kitui County, Kenya Read More »
Building world class open source software is important in improving the quality of care in our communities. By ensuring that through this process, we focus on being people led, we are able to understand critical information from the onset thus focus on the right areas of improvement especially on user …
Understanding the experiences of CHT users through surveys Read More »
Authored by: Philip Ngari, Program Manager, Medic Responding to community needs in Malawi Malawi is one of the countries with very high levels of poverty and also high HIV prevalence, with about one million people currently living with HIV. The country also has high under-five (39 per 1000 live births) …
Partners In Health to open source their full CHT-based community health app – YendaNafe Read More »