New Malaria Consortium report - Community-based primary healthcare: the key to unlock health for all
Oliver Williams
*apologies for cross posting*
Good morning,
It gives me great pleasure to share with you Malaria Consortium's latest advocacy report: ‘Community-based primary healthcare: the key to unlock health for all’
The report makes the case for the urgent need to invest in community-based primary healthcare (CBPHC) as a cost-effective means of extending vital health services to remote, hard-to-reach communities, and tackling burdens of diseases such as NTDs.
CBPHC involves training volunteer community health workers to provide basic health services, such as diagnosis and treatment for malaria, NTDs, pneumonia and diarrhoea, to their communities.
All causes of under-five child mortality can be tackled with sufficiently trained, supported and supervised community health workers, and therefore this report advocates for the scale up of CBPHC to support disease elimination, address the growing global health worker gap and achieve universal health coverage for all.
To find out more you can read the report here.
You can also watch a short ‘all you need to know’ video highlighting the key recommendations.
We would appreciate your support in sharing this report with your partners, networks and coalitions. Please find some example messages to share on social media:
- New report advocates for scale up of community-based primary healthcare to tackle #malaria, #ntds & #pneumonia. http://bit.ly/2v4b6vi
- All causes of under-5 death can be tackled by community-based primary healthcare. New report advocates for scale up http://bit.ly/2v4b6vi
- Rural communities often lack access to vital health services. #CBPHC provides cost-effective answer. Find out more http://bit.ly/2v4b6vi
- Community-based primary healthcare can be the key to extend health services, unlock #health4all & #UHC. Find out how http://bit.ly/2v4b6vi
If you have any questions, or would like to discuss issues raised in the report further, please let me know.
Kind regards,
Oliver
Oliver Williams
Advocacy Manager
Malaria Consortium
Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT
Tel: +44 (0)20 7549 0220
disease control, better health
Malaria Consortium improves lives in Africa and Asia through sustainable, evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote child and maternal health.