Last Mile Health partners with countries to design and build community-based primary health systems. Last Mile Health link community health workers with nurses, doctors, and midwives at community clinics. They train and support these teams of community and frontline health workers to bring life-saving services to the doorsteps of people living far from care. Last Mile Health partner with governments to build strong community health systems that extend primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities. To achieve our vision of a health worker within reach of everyone, everywhere, we work with our government partners to:
- Strengthen Health Systems
- Train Health Workers
- Deliver Primary Healthcare
- Global: contribute to the movement for universal health coverage through research, open-source resources, technical assistance, partnerships and advocacy.
- Ethiopia: supporting the Ethiopia Ministry of Health to strengthen the National Health Extension Program in order to ensure equitable access to essential health services and improve the quality of health services.
- Liberia: working with the Government of Liberia and local partners to make primary healthcare universal by deploying a paid, professionalized health worker to every rural and remote community.
- Malawi: working with Malawi’s Ministry of Health as they improve access to health services for 15 million people living in rural areas.
- Sierra Leone: working with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation to ensure the community health workforce has the knowledge and capabilities to manage, deliver, and sustain community-based primary care in rural and remote communities.
- Uganda: worked with the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Health to increase the capacity of community and frontline health workers to deliver high-quality primary health services and reduce the preventable disease burden in rural communities with a focus on COVID-19 prevention and response.
Organisation
Country: Liberia
Email: info@lastmilehealth.org
