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 »
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.
Our team is continuously working to enhance the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) framework. We can not do this alone, so, we are asking you to provide valuable feedback via a survey which is open now and available till 31st July.
In December 2021, Medic hosted the first CHT Community Round-up – the start of a series of monthly calls to engage the community, share product news, and open the floor for valuable, direct feedback to our team.
Post author: Jennifer Quesada, Software Developer Countries around the world continue to grapple with the most effective way to access and analyze robust, centralized data around the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, we collectively face the critical need to respond quickly to local outbreaks, limiting the toll of the virus at …
The product team at Medic conducted an experiment with County Health Administrators based in Kenya’s Siaya County who use the event-based monitoring system application – powered by the Community Health Toolkit – called mDharura.
FCHVs share how mHealth training and remote care coordination have become a lifeline between frontline health workers and patients during COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal.
Announcing the latest release of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), including new features, improved performance, and much more.