ActionForHealth: prevent 90% of child death, Mali

Summary

Action for Health posits an alternative to the untenable user-fee health systems in Mali, as well as free care for children <5 for the 4 diseases that cause 90% of child deaths in Bamako project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Four preventable diseases cause 90% of child deaths in Bamako, Africa's fastest growing city: malaria, diarrhea, lung infections, malnutrition. People do not seek preventative care because they cannot afford even tiny user fees. However, people are willing to invest time and labor to benefit their community. Action-for-Health gives them this opportunity, empowering users and creating economic, social and political value. Our pilot of 1837 people is in Sikoro.

Activities

12 Community Health Workers will provide free child health care. Indigent families will contribute “action-fees”, including participating in clean up days, clinic construction, gardening, voting, and enrolling 10-16 year old girls in school.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $41,792
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $6,431
Total Funding Goal: $48,223

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Action-for-health provides a replicable alternative to user-fees to increase health access around the world. We will share our experience with partners at the Ministry of Health, the Millennium Development Goals Center, and all 800 clinics in Mali.

Project Message

“We want to invest in our health. And we can invest in our health. We just cannot invest cash. This program gives us the chance to save our children and build our community.”
- Aminata Keita, Community Health Worker

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Anna Ninan

5413 US Route 5
Westminster Station, VT 05159
United States
401 440 2396
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP)
PO Box 20 5413 US Route 5
Westminster Station, Vermont 5159
United States
802 722 4029
http://www.malihealth.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in MaliMali and can also be found under HealthHealth.

For more information about Mali, read the Human Development Report on Mali or the Wikipedia entry for Mali.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 30, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 7, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

Clinic Construction Completed!

By Leona Rosenblum - Community Health Worker Coordinator, November 30, 2009 12:53 PM

The exterior of the new clinic.
This has been one of our dream goals, and we're finally seeing it become a reality. The Sourakabougou area of Sikoro was badly in need of a clinic. High up on the rocky hills, with no paved road access, it is an isolated spot. On several occasions, pregnant women were not able to make it to the Sikoro clinic to deliver, and those in need of urgent care for illness or accidents could not reach care when they needed it. The lack of a clinic was a serious geographical barrier to accessing care.

The Community Health Action Group decided that a clinic needed to be our next project, so we set to work. And now the Centre de Sante Communitaire de Sikoro-Sourakabougou is a reality!

It has been a long road to get this far, and there is still a ways to go. The government has promised to match our contribution by constructing the maternity ward and providing electricity and access to running water for both buildings. We also need your help to fully equip the clinic to get it ready to open as soon as possible.

The clinic is an integral part of all of our future plans. Under the Action for Health program, children and pregnant women in our target families will receive free care at this clinic. The clinic will host a pilot Frontline/SMS electronic medical records program which will provide valuable information on best-practices for both rural and urban clinics in resource poor settings.

In short, the clinic is a huge step for us, but just the first one. We are happy to be finished with construction so that it can start serving the community that requested its services. We hope that you, our donors, can help us reach this new goal.

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