Financing Community Health Programs with Africa Frontline First
In today’s conversation, co-hosts Jonathan Jackson and Amie Vaccaro are joined by Nan Chen, Co-Executive Director of Africa Frontline First. Africa Frontline First is on a mission to increase financing for community health worker programs across Africa to save and improve lives. Half of the world's population lack access to essential health services and community health workers, who expand primary health services door-to-door even in the hardest to reach communities, are an essential part of the solution. But financing remains the primary challenge to scale and sustain community health worker programs, despite a 10:1 return on investment. Today’s conversation centers on the ways that Africa Frontline First, a partnership from the Community Health Impact Coalition, the Financing Alliance for Health, and Last Mile Health, is working to make financing more available and effective for these life-saving programs, as well as the role of technology in accelerating impact.
Show Notes:
- Africa Frontline First Website
- Africa CDC
- Community Health Reform Cycle
- Reaching the Last Mile commitment that was the outcome of the process discussed of “listening to aligning to committing”
- US $100M Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund launch
- AFF partner, Living Goods, supported the launch of new Community Health strategy in Burkina Faso
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Hosts: Jonathan Jackson and Amie Vaccaro