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This week at UNGA79, leaders from Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, and Liberia engaged in a powerful dialogue on scaling community health initiatives. Hosted by…

Mr. Wanyungu praised the county for its outstanding performance, particularly in household registration, with Vihiga achieving 90% coverage—having registered 146,379 out of 163,379 households.

The session explored the critical role of health workers, especially community health workers (CHWs), as they tackle intersecting challenges like climate change, non-communicable diseases, and pandemics within primary care settings.

Despite global efforts, half of the world's population still lacks essential health services, while millions of CHWs remain underpaid, unsupervised, and unequipped. A single policy shift could revolutionize health systems.

The active involvement of both the County Assembly and executive leadership demonstrated the supportive environment for health initiatives in the County. The Governor reiterated his commitment to strengthening the health system, ensuring access to clean water, and promoting good governance.

We recognize that each country we work with is at a different stage of maturity in its community health programs. However, through projects like BIRCH and platforms like CHU4UHC in Kenya, we see the impact of strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts in enhancing community health systems. By continuously improving the enabling environment, Living Goods ensures the success of our implementation support work, ultimately leading to stronger health outcomes for communities.

Having started as a community health extension officer and worked his way up to the sub-county health focal person, Mr. Masinde now oversees the collection and compilation of vital health data.

CHWs are currently carrying out household registration on the government eCHIS. This will help track households’ health data over time and facilitate
reminders in the CHWs’ app to conduct visits once they start providing health services in Q3.

“Avant, notre travail se limitait à mobiliser les femmes et les enfants pour la vaccination. Mais après avoir reçu la formation en juin, nous sommes habilités à faire beaucoup plus”, explique Tiemtoré. En plus de la formation sanitaire, les ASBC ont reçu des smartphones dotés de l’outil gouvernemental eCHIS et ont été formés à leur utilisation pour le diagnostic, le traitement et l’ orientation des clients. “Je n’avais jamais utilisé de smartphone.