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.
Post authored by Bara Ndiaye, Technical Lead * Veuillez trouver en dessous, la traduction en français de cet article. * Muso‘s network of Community Health Workers (CHWs), active in Mali since 2008, has been supported by the Community Health Toolkit (CHT) since 2017. Muso CHWs provide proactive care, a package of home-based health
Post authored by Antony Khaemba, Project Manager COVID-19 surveillance and early detection are critical to preventing the spread of the disease, and to protect those who are most vulnerable. Over the past several weeks, our team has worked in close collaboration with Kenya’s Ministry of Health (MoH), the Palladium Group, mHealth Kenya, Environmental Systems
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Post authored by Helen Olsen, Impact Manager; Alix Emden, Operations Lead; Josh Nesbit, Board Member, and Kenn Sippell, Director of App Services. Health workers around the world are on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 at great personal risk. A deadly combination of extreme working conditions, stress, fatigue and prolonged
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Post Authored by Shreya Bhatt, Chief of Staff, and Sudip Pokhrel, Government Partnerships Advisor *This post is a continuation of our blog series to share important updates and commentary on our Covid-19 response efforts and updates.* In the past several weeks, airports and other major ports of entry around the
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Post co-authored by Josh Nesbit, Board Member; Isaac Holeman, Chief Research Officer; and Shreya Bhatt, Director of Partnerships. *This post is a first in a series of posts to share important updates and commentary on our Covid-19 response efforts and updates.* As Covid-19 spreads across countries where we support partners
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Kennedy Odiambo Oreunjo is the County Director of Health in Siaya County, Kenya. He is a public health specialist with a master’s degree in Public Health and Community Health & Development and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Health. He is passionate about engaging communities in finding affordable solutions
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Post authored by Maria Ma, Impact Analyst and Helen Olsen, Impact Manager. At Medic, we recently hit a big data milestone – over 1 million community health worker actions were recorded in a single month using our mHealth tools! This number represents both the highest single month of community health worker (CHW)
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Post authored by Isaac Holeman, Medic’s Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder. Collaboration has always been the heart of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT). Fifteen partner organizations supported its launch last October, and since then, their voices and those of users and implementers around the world have inspired more than 275
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Post authored by Kanika Malik, one of Medic’s former Project Managers based in New Delhi. Pictured above (left to right) Jacqueline Edwards, Brian Ssennoga, Chris Lukolyo, Kanika Malik, and Michael Korir In what is becoming a tradition for our team, Medic teammates participated in the 2019 ICT4D Conference in Kampala last month.
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