Integrate Health develops a primary healthcare delivery system that combines trained Community Health Workers with enhanced health clinics to provide accessible and affordable care in West Africa. This approach addresses the lack of quality healthcare services by integrating local health initiatives with government programs, ensuring improved health outcomes for underserved populations.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
In West Africa, many communities lack access to quality primary healthcare services, resulting in poor health outcomes, especially for women and children. Existing healthcare systems often struggle to integrate local health initiatives with government programs, hindering effective and accessible care for underserved populations.
Solution
Integrate Health addresses these challenges by developing a primary healthcare delivery system that combines the efforts of trained and salaried Community Health Workers (CHWs) with enhanced health clinics. This integrated approach ensures proactive case-finding and provides home-based care, achieving population-level coverage. By partnering with governments, Integrate Health strengthens national healthcare systems and delivers high-quality primary healthcare services to women and children in remote communities. The organization also focuses on systems strengthening, including integrating data-driven decision-making into health operating plans and building local institutions' capacity to sustain community health services.
Target Audience
Integrate Health primarily serves women and children in underserved communities in West Africa, as well as governments and health organizations seeking to improve primary healthcare delivery and strengthen national healthcare systems.
Features
- Employs trained, equipped, supervised, and salaried Community Health Workers (CHWs) for proactive case-finding and home-based care.
- Provides technical and financial support to public sector clinics.
- Offers an ambulance program with motorcycle ambulances and trained drivers for emergency transport, particularly for pregnant and postpartum women.
- Utilizes the Tonoudayo app to log tasks and cases, ensuring smooth transitions when CHW replacements are necessary.
- Implements Project BIRCH to strengthen community health systems and ensure effective utilization of resources in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
- Facilitates access to fully paid maternity leave for CHWs, ensuring continuity of care through replacement CHWs.