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In 2009, 305,000 children under the age of five died in Mozambique and Uganda. The main causes of death were diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria. Access to good quality healthcare in the community could save thousands of these lives
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Community based agents are chosen by their neighbours and peers as trusted deliverers of healthcare. If a CBA is working as a volunteer, they are often given in-kind support by their neighbours.
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inSCALE is seeking solutions to the difficulties and limitations experienced by community based agents to diagnose and treat diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria in young children, whatever these may be
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The reliable transfer of data between communities and health management information systems is essential for effective disease management. inSCALE will evaluate the use of mobile technology by CBAs in the sharing of data
Watch an interesting news piece filmed by Al Jazeera in Kiboga district, showing the impact of malaria on children and families in rural Uganda, and the amazing work of Village Health Teams volunteers, Uganda’s’ community health workers trained by Malaria Consortium.
Click here for full storyLondon, 05 January 2012: Last December, inSCALE held its first technical advisory group meeting. The Malaria Consortium invited a group of nine experts from all over the world to Kampala, Uganda, to discuss progress of the inSCALE programme and the design of innovations that will help Community Health Workers in Uganda and Mozambique performing their daily work.
Click here for full storyUganda, 20 December 2011: Saul Morris, the Senior Programmes Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, expressed a strong interest during his most recent visit to Uganda in the evolution of Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) in the country. ICCM brings diagnosis and treatment of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea where most needed: at village level. Community Health Workers are trained to diagnose these diseases and provided with free drugs for all children under five.
Click here for full storyHas malaria been given more attention than pneumonia in the fight against child mortality? If so, why?
Click here for full storyKarin Källander, regional programme coordinator of the inSCALE project, recently attended meetings at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on achieving impact at scale. The meetings focused scaling up family health innovations including the role of community health workers and how to most effectively scale up their activities.
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