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
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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 »
In rural communities around the world, community health workers (CHWs) have long been trusted providers of healthcare. Every day, CHWs cover long distances to make sure that all their neighbours – even the most remote – have access to health services. On this International Day of Rural Women, we celebrate
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As a global team of more than 90 multidisciplinary teammates located in 20+ countries, we are proud to be a team full of diversity and rich culture. To showcase the unique strengths of our greatest asset – our people – we are launching a Q&A series to share more about
Meet the Team: Charles and Ian, Internal Operations Read More »
Follow our Product teammates’ journey to the Koboko, Nebbi, and Maracha Districts of Uganda to gain valuable insights through usability testing and focused group discussions with community health workers.
User experience at the center of everything we do Read More »
Medic is thrilled to welcome Robert Mutai as Chief Program Officer, joining our global team at a pivotal moment for increased scale and deepening partnerships
Welcoming Robert Mutai, Medic’s Chief Program Officer Read More »
Overview of partnership In March 2020, when COVID-19 had not fully established itself in Kenya, an opportunity emerged for Medic and Palladium Kenya to not only co-develop an integrated COVID-19 surveillance system with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other stakeholders, but also to exchange knowledge between the two organizations
We’ve recently successfully completed our first remote usability session, facilitated by Partners In Health (PIH) in Malawi! It was a valuable learning experience for both teams involved and we are so excited to share the process and findings with the greater community. Part of Medic’s responsibilities as the steward of
Remote usability testing with Partners In Health Read More »
A joint partnership equipped 564 community health workers with a mobile app, called MaliKaKeneya, to screen six communes of the Bamako District in Mali for COVID-19.