Muso
For close to two decades, Muso has worked with the Malian government to improve how healthcare is delivered, aiming to end preventable deaths and reach patients within the first few hours of their showing signs of illness. The communities where Muso is active have achieved and sustained the lowest documented rates of child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, even in conflict settings. By 2028, Muso aims to serve 650,000 patients in Mali and Côte d'Ivoire directly through its Rapid Care approach. In parallel, it is providing technical assistance to the governments of these two countries and of Zambia to strengthen health systems by integrating proven strategies in national public health policy and practice.
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Challenge
Millions of people in the lowest income countries die annually from treatable illnesses because they don’t receive timely care. Access and financial barriers further impede timely care for women and children living in poverty, resulting in high maternal and infant mortality.
Mali has the world’s ninth-highest national under-five child mortality rate at 91 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2023. Côte d’Ivoire has the world’s seventeenth-highest national rate with 65 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2020.
Response
Muso trains, coaches, equips and supervises salaried community health workers who go door-to-door in communities, proactively seeking out sick people to treat patients at home or rapidly connect them with strengthened health centres if they require advanced care. All services are without point of care fees for all its patients
The community health workers provide patients with life-saving services, including pregnancy testing, family planning, the screening of newborns and women for danger signs, and the treatment of children with malaria, diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition.
With this direct approach, Muso reaches more than 600,000 patients in Mali and Côte d'Ivoire. The organisation also supports governments in strengthening national healthcare systems and taking its proven approaches to scale nationally.
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