As an important strategy to increase the quality, equity, and responsiveness of health services, social accountability in primary health care has been emphasized. Social accountability is a concept rooted in governance that designates being answerable for actions and refers to strategies that employ information and participation to demand fairer, more effective public services and being …

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Sponsored by nominated senator, Agnes Zani, the Community Health Service Bill 2020 seeks to provide a legal regime for counties to recognize and remunerate their respective Community Health Volunteers. Community Health Volunteers are the basic foundation of health systems in Kenya guiding communities on health improvement, disease prevention, and treating common ailments and minor injuries …

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With 83.37% of the world’s population owning a smartphone, it is only right that we integrate health systems toward the digital direction that the world is headed. Over the past few years, there have been significant efforts worldwide to digitize health systems.  The plan for Universal Health Coverage has driven the exploration of various innovative …

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The Ministry of Health, Department of Primary Health Care, with support from Amref Health Africa and PATH Advocacy held an engagement workshop between 27th June and 2nd July 2022 in Samburu to review the AWP for FY 2021/2022 and develop an AWP for FY 2022/2023. The engagement workshop also included partners from various organizations: LVCT …

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The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Nyeri County Government and Amref Health Africa facilitated CHC trainings across the county in activities that took place between 25th and 27th May 2022. Training was led by the Division of Community Health at the National MoH, Amref Health Africa in collaboration with the Global Fund Sub- Recipient …

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