Jan 30, 2025
In 2024, Last Mile Health marked an exciting milestone in Sierra Leone: we began district-level operations in our Kambia District “learning lab,” where we implement performance and management tools to inform the scale of the national community health worker program. Building on work we have developed to target gaps…
Jun 13, 2024
On June 6, 2024, Last Mile Health and the International Institute for Primary Health Care – Ethiopia (IPHC-E) hosted “Non-communicable diseases: The next frontier for community health workers.” This webinar explored the vast potential for professional community health workers to provide non-communicable disease care in communities around the…
May 1, 2024
In Ethiopia, non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of death. These illnesses—which include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, kidney diseases, and others—account for 52% of deaths in the country.* And for those living in rural and remote communities, lifesaving screening and treatment is often out…
