It was a proud moment: out of nearly one hundred entries, the Community Health Workers (CHW) program of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was singled out by the World Health Organization (WHO) for an award of excellence.
Here we were, the participants at WHO's second Global forum on human resources for health in Thailand, at the end . . . [more]
This year, Sauri Millennium Village, Western Kenya, marked the half-way point in the project. With five years of successful innovations and interesting challenges behind it, and five to go to the Millennium Development Goals deadline, our aim now is to strengthen our links with the local authorities and ensure that they will take our interventions on board, and pursue them beyond 2015.
With this in mind, . . . [more]
Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites.
The technology was presented to community health teams at a continent-wide workshop held in Nairobi in February 2010. The ChildCount+ application utilizes mobile phone technology to enhance maternal care and care for children under 5 . . . [more]
The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory).
In this difficult, arid area where communities move in search of water and pasture, the role played by Community Health Workers (CHWs) is vital and helps save lives. Though Dertu has a dispensary with a functional six bed . . . [more]
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