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Counties urged to invest in digital health for sustainable and efficient healthcare systems

October 28, 2024

Joan Oracha, Chief Programs Officer at Living Goods, highlighted the importance of sustainable funding for digital health, urging counties to allocate sufficient budgets to maintain digital health programs.

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#187 Willing to Take Risks with Liz Jarman

October 28, 2024

In the latest episode of Life Beyond the Numbers, Willing to Take Risks, I chat with Liz Jarman, CEO of Living Goods, as she prepares to step down at the end of 2024. Liz offers invaluable insights into succession planning and leadership transitions, sharing how she’s scaled operations sustainably and fostered a high-performing culture.

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How technology is enabling better healthcare for rural communities

October 28, 2024

Millicent is just one of many healthcare workers in Kenya who have benefited from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative. This program equips health professionals with the knowledge and tools to identify serious diseases early, prevent their spread, and offer ongoing patient support.

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Why health facilities will no longer need paper records

October 28, 2024

Patients seeking health services will soon no longer need to carry paper records when they move to another facility or doctor. At the click of a button, the health practitioner will be able to pull up records of the client no matter where they accessed services before.

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Digital tools help cut malaria cases in Busia as CHPs take charge

October 28, 2024

“Through the integrated community case management (iCCM), the community-based healthcare workers have been delivering treatment interventions closer to caregivers and sick children and reducing the need for travel to distant healthcare facilities,” said Mr Thomas Onyango, Country- Director of Living Goods.

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Leveraging Data to Strengthen Uganda’s Health Supply Chain System

August 12, 2024

In Uganda, as in many countries globally, effective healthcare supply chain management is critical to ensuring that essential medicines and medical supplies reach those who need them most, especially amid current challenges such as the medical interns’ strike and the mpox outbreak.

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State accelerates digital transformation of healthcare

May 22, 2024

For the last decade, the Ministry of Health in partnership with Living Goods International has been planning to institutionalise a unified digital platform encompassing all levels of care.
Now catalysed by a national push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic, Kenya is embarking on a transformative journey to digitise its healthcare system.

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Community health workers struggling to use digital phones, apps – ministry

May 22, 2024

The scope of work of a CHP includes basic preventive and promotive health, health education, basic first aid at the household level and referral for facility based healthcare. Each health promoter is allocated 100 homes within their neighbourhood where they provide community health services.

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OPINION: Kenya’s Path To Ending Malaria Lies In Renewed Commitment To Primary Health Care, Mass Vaccination

April 25, 2024

As the world observes Malaria Day this year, it's worth acknowledging that Kenya's fight against malaria is a story of resilience, innovation, and unity.
However, it's also a story of persistent challenges and the need for continued investment, stakeholder collaboration, and community engagement.

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Interview with Liz Jarman (Living Goods)

March 18, 2024

For me, community health workers form the bedrock, if you like, the foundation of any health system, and make that health system, the term being used now is resilient. I think we all recognize the need for a resilient health system during the pandemic, during COVID, and there’s going to be future pandemics, so really building that resilience, not just for today, but for the future.

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Empowering women and transforming economies globally through inclusive partnerships

March 10, 2024

The Social Impact Partner Spotlight series highlights various Cisco non-profit organization partners that are helping transform the lives of individuals and communities. This blog features Cisco’s partnership with Living Goods, One Acre Fund, Solar Sister, and Trickle Up, highlighting the amazing work these organizations are doing to advance economic empowerment, especially for women, globally.

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How a coalition of partners in Kenya is supporting government efforts in deploying primary healthcare and community health

October 18, 2023

The Community Health Units for Universal Health Coverage (CHU4UHC) platform that includes Living Goods seeks to support the government’s efforts in deploying primary healthcare and community health.

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Kenya Takes Bold Step Towards Universal Health Coverage with the Launch of a Digital Health Tool

October 16, 2023

NAIROBI, 16 October 2023—The Kenyan government’s nationwide launch of an electronic community health information system (eCHIS) marks a significant step in the nation’s journey towards…

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Focus on Community Health Systems, a promising beginning.

October 11, 2023

It is exciting to see all stakeholders acknowledge that to drive and deliver high impact community health programs, CHWs must be digitally empowered, equipped, supervised, and compensated.

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How Busia has increased uptake of family planning services

September 4, 2023

The Community Health Workers are equipped with educational materials, which they use as a guide on a range of family planning products, how they work, and their side effects.

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Medic & Living Goods’ Partnership Championing Digital Community Health in Kenya

June 23, 2023

When it comes to driving sustainable and meaningful change for community health workers, the path is best walked in partnership. Since 2015, Living Goods and …

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How we can empower volunteer health workers

August 2, 2022

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