Country Voices

From October 18 to 22, 2021, the Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) conducted an on-the-ground evaluation of community health (CH) models in Togo’s Kara region, to collect the data that would form the basis of recommendations for Togo’s Community Health program. During the field visit, FAH's Tapsoba Boukary had the privilege to speak with Bassar N’gadjassain, a passionate … [Read more...] about Elevating Country Voices: Togo

Originally published in the summer 2019 newsletter of the Financing Alliance for Health. Mr. Mwango Mlenga has been a passionate District Health Promotion Officer in Zambia’s Ndola district for the past nine years. In his current role, Mr. Mlenga is responsible for organizing, planning, budgeting, work allocation, reporting and supervision of CHWs in his constituency. He … [Read more...] about Elevating Country Voices: Zambia

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

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