Deliver Healthcare
In partnership with governments, we deliver effective community-based primary care with a focus on women and children at the last mile.
Imagine your two-year-old daughter wakes up one morning with a fever. You realize that she could have malaria, an illness that can be life-threatening without treatment. The only way to get a diagnosis and access to treatment would be to walk for up to a day just to reach the nearest clinic. This is a daily reality for families living in the world’s most remote communities.
Now imagine that community health worker Serrena Kun visits your daughter at home. Serrena is your neighbor, and she has the necessary training to diagnose your daughter’s fever and provide her with the medicine she needs. If your daughter does not improve, Serrena will work with her supervisor Diana Denis, a registered nurse, who will treat your child at the community clinic or refer her to a hospital.
At Last Mile Health, we partner with governments to extend primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities by designing, growing, and sustaining national networks of community and frontline health workers.
Professional community health workers serve their neighbors’ daily health needs by delivering an integrated package of life-saving primary care services in areas including maternal and newborn health, child health, immunizations, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and environmental health and hygiene. They provide crucial community-level disease surveillance and serve as a first line of defense against everyday health threats and global emergencies.
When community health workers like Serrena are trained and supported, they can improve health outcomes and save lives. In Liberia, they now treat 45% of all reported malaria cases for children under five—and they are key to community education and patient tracking for Liberia’s new malaria vaccine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they maintained routine community-based primary health services without disruption.
In addition to supporting Liberia’s community and frontline health workers to deliver quality primary healthcare, we partner with the Ministry of Health and communities to design and implement innovative solutions to address persistent health and equity gaps, and position them for country-level scale. This includes expanding access to quality services in areas such as immunization, nutrition, and family planning, like the recent pilot of the injectable contraceptive Sayana Press in Liberia’s Rivercess County.
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