Originally published in the spring 2018 newsletter of the Financing Alliance for Health. Mr. Alpha Bangura rushes into his office in Freetown, Sierra Leone glistening with sweat from the midday sun. As the National Community Health Director at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, he spends a lot of his time traveling around Sierra Leone, or attending marathon meetings in … [Read more...] about Elevating Country Voices: Sierra Leone
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Elevating Country Voices: Kenya
Community health services are delivered within a community health unit (CHU), which is the first point of care within the health system. The community health policy prescribes that each CHU should have 10 community health volunteers (CHVs) and 5 community health assistants (CHAs). CHVs deliver their service under the supervision of the CHA. Kilala Location has approximately … [Read more...] about Elevating Country Voices: Kenya
Elevating Country Voices: Liberia
Originally published in the fall 2018 newsletter of the Financing Alliance for Health. Community health programs are being launched all across the world, and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. It is reminiscent of the post-Alma Ata period in the 1980s, but unfortunately, most of those programs performed sub-optimally due to poor design and under-investment. Now at the 40 … [Read more...] about Elevating Country Voices: Liberia