Newsletter

2023-2027

Making professional community health workers the norm worldwide

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2023-2027

Community Health Impact Coalition

The Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) aims to make professional community health workers the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding and policy. An audacious 40-country movement, the Coalition now comprises thousands of community health workers and dozens of global health organisations in low- and middle-income countries that have a shared goal of improving community health system design. We fund CHIC to further advance this crucial work.

CHALLENGE

Community health workers bring primary health services straight to their neighbours’ doorsteps. They provide reliable information, carry out health promotion and prevention activities, implement vaccination campaigns and treat illness. In low- and middle-income countries, they are often the first point of care for vulnerable and underserved populations. Yet millions of them are not salaried, skilled, supervised and supplied, making their work less effective and healthcare inaccessible for patients.

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ACTION

The Coalition works across three pillars:

● Research - equipping international norm setters with evidence to create guidelines that support community health workers.

● Advocate - influencing global financing institutions to increase funding for community health workers.

● Activate - mobilizing national networks to win policies in support of professional community health workers

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guidance for counting community health workers

issued with UNICEF, The Global Fund & others

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countries with a confirmed policy

to support community health workers nationally

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©Last Mile Health

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©Safari Doctors

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©Muso

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©Wuqu Kawoq

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©Dimagi

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©Last Mile Health

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©Community Health Impact Coalition

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©Safari Doctors