Africa: How To Stop the Health Worker Brain Drain in Africa? Invest in People and Innovations
This year the World Health Organization added 37 African countries to a list of nations at risk of facing worsening health worker shortages due to “brain drain” – a well-documented phenomenon of health workers emigrating to work in high-income countries like the U.S.,...
The Responsive Primary Health Care Path to UHC
2023 has been a year of overlapping challenges for Malawi. We’ve weathered the deadliest cholera outbreak in our country’s history, Tropical Storm Ana, and Cyclone Freddy—all in the wake of the economic and health devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic.VillageReach Annual Report DRC 2022 (French)
Annual Report for DRC 2022.
Uniting Against Polio – Kenya’s Lab Sample Transportation Story
In June 2023, Dr. Pius Mutuku and his team were alerted of three patients whose lab samples had tested positive for polio from the Hagadera Refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya. The samples indicated the presence of a non-wild variant of poliovirus, known as...Polio Lab Sample Transport Program Overview in 15 countries – Program Update, July 2023
VillageReach was brought on to assess the polio specimen referral systems and to co-design and implement customized solutions in 15 countries at high risk for polio outbreaks – aiming to improve the speed and quality of polio sample transportation from health...
Breaking Barriers, Repositioning Africa In The Global Health Architecture
The Africa Centre for Disease Control’s annual International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) is a unique Africa-led platform for leaders across the continent to showcase new and exciting scientific discoveries while advancing programs and policies...Building a Pipeline of Supply Chain Professionals through Education: Malawi
VillageReach and Kühne Foundation LEED-Program (Logistics Education in Emerging and Developing Countries) are partnering in Malawi to assess the local educational needs in Malawi and help the universities with the curricula design, the structure of the study programs,...
Enhancing Healthcare: VillageReach and Tec4med for Better Access and Quality in Underserved Communities
VillageReach is a global health organization specializing in the systems that deliver health products and information to the hardest-to-reach people.