Author: James Wariero

Transforming Health in the Millennium Villages

by | 9.15.2010 at 10:20am
Community Health Workers in Mbola, Tanzania learn how to use RapidSMS system on their mobile phones donated by Ericsson.

If someone asked me what is the single most important thing that has caused these positive developments in health I would say the Community Health Worker (CHW) system. There are definitely other equally important program interventions in setting up health facilities, ensuring commodity security for health-related consumables, and providing equipment and staffing to optimize the utilization of these health facilities, but the deployment