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For decades, community health workers have shown their ability to save lives, enhance resilience, and support healthy communities. Now is the time for ministers to commit to professional CHW (#proCHW) policy and reach #healthforall. Get more details on how and why from Community Health Impact Coalition in The Lancet: https://buff.ly/4fiFxQB

Today is Universal Health Coverage (UHC) day—a reminder that everyone everywhere deserves to access the quality health care they need. Yet the reality is concerning, we're far from achieving the United Nations global target of UHC by 2030. According to the World Health Organization, progress to expand health services coverage has stagnated since 2015. Meanwhile, over the last 20 years, financial protection has steadily worsened, leaving 2 billion people experiencing financial hardship and 1.3 billion people pushed into poverty due to health spending. At mothers2mothers (m2m), we see firsthand how transforming UHC could be for the women and families we work with. With UHC, mothers wouldn't miss out on vital, life-saving care for themselves and their children, and people would have access to earlier diagnoses and treatments. To understand why this approach is so effective, meet Ruth—an inspiring community health worker in Uganda employed by m2m as a Community Mentor Mother Coordinator—who makes quite an impression as the only woman who rides a motorbike through her community. This enables her to cover 13 to 20 kilometres (8-12 miles) every day, reaching families who have limited access to health care with essential health services and information. Read more about Ruth's incredible impact here:https://buff.ly/3ZA7uxq

Women are the backbone of community health, and they need safety and support across all stages of their careers. How can governments and partners make this the reality as they recruit, enable, and retain women CHWs? Read 16 actionable recommendations in Last Mile Health and Integrate Health’s Framework for Action: https://bit.ly/womenCHWs

mothers2mothers is celebrating a major milestone—achieving a 0% mother-to-child transmission of HIV rate among our enrolled clients last year, together with our incredible partners. What underpinned this achievement and our other outstanding impact in 2023? 🩷 Our ability to keep clients in care: Ending HIV, keeping families healthy, preventing and managing non-communicable diseases… all rely on keeping people engaged and on treatment for the long term. 🙌🏽 m2m's focus on quality and sustained investment: For over 20 years, we have prioritised quality programming, and use a composite quality index to measure and ensure excellence in service delivery. 📱 Strategic use of digital tools: To amplify our impact, we use a range of digital tools—including apps and a chatbot—for service delivery and case management. Together, we’re making a real difference! #HealthForAll #DigitalHealth

Today is Human Rights Day! This year, the United Nations is focusing on how human rights are a pathway to solutions, playing a critical role as a preventative, protective and transformative force for good—a theme that we explored for World AIDS Day earlier this month. Mentor Mother Team Lead Faustina Ocansey from Ghana explained how she didn't give up on her right to health—and how she is using that experience to ensure her peers can enjoy that right too. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCw47HtB

Join us today as we celebrate mothers2mothers Spokeswoman Esther's birthday! Wishing you a very special day 💜

Today we're wishing mothers2mothers (m2m) ambassador JB Gill a happy birthday! Thank you for your commitment to m2m 💙

How was mothers2mothers able to achieve what was once thought to be impossible—a 0% mother-to-child transmission of HIV rate among our enrolled clients for the first time last year, together with our partners? Adolescent Peer Mentor, Josophine Kalombola, says in her rural community in Malawi, m2m’s digital tools help her to keep her clients on treatment for the long term—which is critical to reduce paediatric HIV infections and keep mothers healthy and alive. Josophine can follow up with clients immediately when they miss appointments, thanks to an App on her phone which tracks her clients' progress. She also provides her clients with support by phone in between in person meetings. And m2m’s WhatsApp chatbot, the Virtual Mentor Mother Platform (VMMP), gives her clients access to a wide range of essential health information when and where they need it. Among her success stories: a pregnant adolescent client living with HIV—who struggled with shame and low self-confidence—got the courage to go the health facility for antenatal care after reading about healthy pregnancy and motherhood on the VMMP at home. You too can help Josophine ensure more women and families access and stay in care with a donation to m2m. All U.S. donations until the end of the year will be DOUBLED up to a total of $15,000, thanks to a generous donor. Donate here: m2m.org/donate

This #GivingTuesday, you can help us celebrate the power of mothers2mothers (m2m) Mentor Mothers like Millicent in South Africa, who are delivering health and hope to their peers in their communities. And by making a donation, you can DOUBLE your impact! Today, and through the end of the year, all U.S. donations will be doubled up to a total of $15,000, thanks to a generous donor. Donate here: buff.ly/3ZwN9ue Why? Because we are also celebrating a milestone: ZERO. Millicent and her cohort of fellow Mentor Mothers achieved a 0% mother-to-child transmission of HIV rate among our enrolled clients in 2023, together with our partners—proving that what was once thought impossible IS possible.  How did we do it? Take m2m client Ntombikayise’s story. When m2m Mentor Mother Millicent met her, she had stopped taking her HIV medication and feared being judged if she visited the health center. She was pregnant and had a terrible cough. Millicent’s support changed everything. She referred her for a tuberculosis (TB) test and supported her to take both her HIV and TB treatment. Today, Ntombikayise has recovered from TB, takes her HIV treatment every day, and her baby girl is HIV-free. Your donation can help ensure that more women, like Ntombikayise, can build a brighter future for their family. Give today! buff.ly/3ZwN9ue

Yesterday was World AIDS Day and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched the #Triple10Targets campaign through the end of 2025. What is the campaign about? In 2001, United Nations Member States adopted the 10-10-10 societal enabler targets as part of the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, pledging action to address punitive and discriminatory laws, policies and practices that undermine the HIV response. With these targets up for review in 2025, the world is running out of time. ⏳ Swipe through to learn more.