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Attending #CHWSymposium2025? Join us on November 13 at 10 am EST/3pm GMT for "Session A.07: Digital Training and Innovation: Expanding Capacity for Community Health Services." Metti Edessa, from the Last Mile Health Ethiopia team, will share insights on our work training community health workers to take on non-communicable diseases in remote communities. Learn more about this innovative work ➡️ https://bit.ly/41UP2ll 

🌍 Exciting Opportunity Alert! Join the Africa Frontline First Initiative as a MERL Specialist in Accra, Ghana! 🌟 Are you passionate about strengthening health systems through innovative monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) initiatives? As a MERL Specialist, you'll play a crucial role in coordinating and enhancing AFF’s MERL function. You'll lead the implementation of our MERL framework, ensuring accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting. Your work will directly impact community health programs, supporting policies for Community Health Workers and driving meaningful change. ****About Africa Frontline First: Our initiative aims to support ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, building resilient community health services with an expanded workforce of 200,000 CHWs by 2030. This effort is critical to reducing morbidity and mortality from diseases like COVID-19, Malaria, TB, and HIV, and advancing health security and economic recovery. Africa Frontline First is a collaborative effort led by the Financing Alliance for Health, Last Mile Health, and Community Health Impact Coalition under the leadership of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This position is only open to candidates who are currently located and authorized to work in Ghana. This role is hybrid and located in Accra, Ghana. APPLY USING THE LINK BELOW: https://lnkd.in/dMfhm99f

Community and frontline health workers are critical in getting vaccines to those who need them most, especially in rural and remote communities. From Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, six reasons why #proCHWs are the unsung heroes of global immunization: https://bit.ly/3Xdgvf0

Attending #CHWSymposium2025? Join Last Mile Health, Liberia's Ministry of Health, and Community Health Impact Coalition partners to learn about the essential role community health workers play in expanding access to immunizations. Our session on 13 November at 8 am GMT will highlight:  🌍 What Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance's first health systems strengthening strategy means for immunization coverage 🌍 How Liberia is leveraging #proCHWs for the malaria vaccine rollout 🌍 How clinical mentors in Guinea support #proCHWs to overcome vaccine hesitancy in local communities And much more! Register for the #CHWSymposium2025 to join us: https://lnkd.in/eW63p9T8

Growing up in rural Malawi, Ireen Laimosi saw her community suffer illness caused by unclean water. Her drive to help prevent sickness motivated her to become a professional community health worker, and today she provides education on healthy water and sanitation hygiene practices. “I feel so great knowing that I work in a community just as the one I grew up in,” says Ireen. “The households are so welcoming and have so much confidence in my guidance and my work. I show them they have the power to save themselves.” Read Ireen's story: https://bit.ly/4cEtU6w

At Last Mile Health we believe that every person, no matter where they live, deserves access to quality healthcare delivered with dignity. Our current newsletter highlights how that belief is turned into action: 🌍 In Ethiopia, community health workers are being equipped to screen and manage non-communicable diseases—an important step toward building stronger, more responsive primary healthcare systems. 🤱 In Liberia, peer-support groups led by community health workers are helping new mothers access care, share knowledge, and build community from the ground up. 💻 In Burkina Faso, digital tools are transforming how our Africa Frontlin First implementing partner Living Goods supports community health systems, strengthening data, efficiency, and impact. And across global forums, from the UN General Assembly to the International Conference on Primary Health Care, our team continues to advocate for one clear message: community health workers are essential to achieving health for all. I’m deeply inspired by the partners, governments, and community health workers making our vision real every day. You can read more about their work in our latest newsletter: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5Cfgp9f #proCHWs #digitalhealth #globalhealth

Out now: our quarterly newsletter, featuring Last Mile Health's latest updates: 🩺A new policy brief on NCDs--and how community health workers can address this growing disease burden 🤱🏿In Liberia, community health workers lead mother-to-mother peer support groups to share healthy practices and reduce maternal and child mortality 🗒️Research in Sierra Leone equips the Ministry of Health to drive improvements to the country's community health program ...and more! Read the full newsletter here: http://bit.ly/4nwRINM

We're not the only ones talking about CHWs & immunization... Today, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance shares six reasons why community health workers are the unsung heroes of global immunization. And we couldn't have said it better ourselves! 1) CHWs close crucial gaps in immunisation 2) CHWs connect with the hard-to-reach 3) CHWs can help drive demand and boost resilience 4) Training CHWs to administer vaccines is cost-effective 5) CHWs reduce costs and increase impact 6) CHWs are essential for vaccine equity and preparedness Get the details: https://lnkd.in/enxu2sTC

We’re hiring a #MERL Specialist to join the Africa Frontline First team in Ghana. If you’re passionate about using data to strengthen access to quality community health care — or know someone who is — please take a look at this exciting opportunity: https://lnkd.in/ee2GKVCe. #JoinOurTeam #Hiring #JobAlert #JobOpportunity #MonitoringAndEvaluation #DataForImpact #GlobalHealth #CommunityHealth #CHWs #DevelopmentJobs #GhanaJobs #AfricaJobs Last Mile Health

"Ethiopia has made remarkable progress in saving mothers' lives, cutting maternal deaths by 73% over the past two decades. In 2000, about 1 in every 100 women died during childbirth. By 2023, that number had dropped to about 1 in 500. The work of [community health workers] has been vital to making this happen." More from The Global Fund on the impact of paid, professional community health workers in Ethiopia: http://bit.ly/3I5cnKl