Apr 3, 2023
When Ekram Redwan began her career in Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health in 2012, the country faced a massive shortage of health workers. “The proportion of health workers to population was way below the WHO standard,” she recalls. The flagship Health Extension Program, which trains and deploys female community health…
Jan 24, 2023
What happens when Last Mile Health and our Ministry of Health partners develop a pilot program and determine that it’s an effective tool for training community health workers? We work together to replicate that success—and improve on it.
In 2021 and 2022, Last Mile Health and Ethiopia’s…
Dec 5, 2022
It’s a busy day for Beatrice Banda. As a community health worker in Malawi, she loves providing care to members of the community–but this important work is slowed down by the extensive paperwork she has to complete for every patient. “Collecting comprehensive information on a paper-based system…
