Download the VillageReach 2025 Annual Report, “25 Years of Transforming Health Care Together.” For Djadji Joanna, a 28-year-old nurse aide in Abidjan, the journey to motherhood wasn’t a choice, it was a surprise. “I didn’t realize it until I was four months...
The energy at the 2025 Global Digital Health Forum was unmistakable. Innovators, policymakers and practitioners gathered with a shared sense that a long-anticipated shift in health care delivery was finally within reach. The COVID-19 pandemic forced digital health...
Posted originally on Carla Blauvelt’s LinkedIn. Amid seismic shifts in global public health financing and delivery, it is more important than ever that health innovations are designed, evaluated and implemented in ways that enable institutionalization – the...
The name “AlôVida”—merging “Alô” (hello) and “Vida” (life)—captures a simple yet profound promise: a greeting that could save lives. In Mozambique, where vaccine-preventable diseases still claim too many young lives, this national...
When we talk about universal health coverage, one thing is clear: it’s not enough for health systems to exist; they must be able to respond. Responsive Primary Health Care (Responsive PHC) is about ensuring that services are available when and where people need them,...
Health systems across Africa are facing a pivotal stress test, one triggered not by disease outbreaks, but by the sudden retreat of donor funding that has long underpinned essential services. Sudden and significant reductions in donor funding from major partners...
In 2025, VillageReach marks 25 years of advancing health equity through innovation, partnership and health systems transformation. From the beginning, VillageReach has focused on ensuring that everyone, especially those in the hardest-to-reach communities, can access...
Last month, I spoke at the MENA Telehealth & Virtual Care Expo in Riyadh. The conference brought together some of the brightest minds shaping the future of virtual care, including tech innovators, global health experts, policy wonks and development partners. While...
Tropical Cyclone Eline struck Mozambique in 2000, bringing weeks of heavy rainfall and devastating floods. When telecommunications executive Blaise Judja-Sato visited the country at the request of the legendary advocate Graça Machel to assess how introducing satellite...
“The health access gap in Africa is great and we need to act urgently. Healthtech provides us with an opportunity to bridge that gap. What we did for fintech, let’s do with healthtech” asserted Dr. Kamil Shoretire, Director of Health Planning Research and Statistics,...
