MDG Health envoy –New Report Highlights Benefits from Investments in CHW Programs

MDG Health envoy July 2015 - “A high-level report released at the Financing for Development Conference finds that community health workers (CHW) can save 3 million lives per year, stop future epidemics and create employment. There is a strong case for investing in Community Health Worker (CHW) programs as part of integrated health systems.

The report, “Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Investment Case and Financing Recommendations” —was released by leaders from the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Republic of Liberia, the U.N. Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Financing the Health MDGs and for Malaria, Partners in Health, the Clinton Foundation, the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, and the MDG Health Alliance.”

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