Attending this year’s Global Digital Health Forum, starting today? Be sure to check out @Living_Goods at various sessions today through Wednesday. See below for details and follow here for live tweets! #GDHF2020
The @Living_Goods team understands the importance of mask wearing. We’re happy to be a part of #WorldMaskWeek, and I challenge all of my followers to #WearAMask so we can reduce the spread of #COVID. Add your pic and join the challenge! @PandemicAction
.@gavi is working with @Living_Goods community health care workers to increase vaccinations for millions of children. Our partner @Cisco is enabling them to use transformative technology to help provide life-saving care, even during Covid-19. https://t.co/tI8FO6kgrM
Unaweza kuzuia coronavirus. Hii ndiyo njia moja: kaa nyumbani, haswa ikiwa wewe ni mgonjwa. Tumia barakowa (mask) unapotembea penya watu na usiguse uso wako!
"Community first. It's the first tier of primary health care. And we need #PHC as the long term strategy to respond to #COVID19 and respond to the next pandemic." @stefanswartpet from @UNICEF highlights the need to strengthen community health at @UHC2030 webinar. #HealthForAll
Governor @hon_nyoro launched Kiambu's #COVID fund & we're happy to join forces to safeguard residents' health. We've supported public education sessions, printed 32k posters, sent info SMSs to CHVs & supplied health teams with equipment for virtual mtgs. We're #InThisTogether
Working with @MOH_Kenya and 7 county governments, we put #Covid19 information material into the hands of 16,000 CHVs who are using them as resources to educate families on prevention and management of the disease. Together we can #KomeshaCorona. @ngechu_ruth@HowieAkimala
Regular hand washing with soap and running water is key in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. In Kenya, we’re providing soap, spirit & cotton wool to almost 3,000 CHVs in 7 counties - along with accurate information to educate their communities. #CommunityHealthWorks
I have this afternoon officially received and handed over a consignment of health care items donated by our partner in Community Health: Living Goods. The consignment will assist our CHVs in the fight against COVID-19 in Isiolo County. Together against COVID-19.@Living_Goods@MOH
In this time of health crisis, we're supporting concerted government #Covid_19 response efforts and have seconded 6 staff who are working with @MOH_Kenya's Community Health Division to support strategy, planning and coordination of health interventions in Kenya #InThisTogether
In Kenya, we are complementing ongoing county government and @MOH_Kenya efforts to fight the spread of #Covid19 by donating 500 public-use hand washing stations to 5 counties- providing easily accessible areas for wananchi to comply with increased hygiene measures. #KomeshaCorona
Empowered CHWs = empowered communities. We’ve printed and disseminated over 16,000 @MOH_Kenya approved fliers to CHWs in 7 counties ensuring they have info for community awareness on the go. In Kakamega, @MOH_Kenya disseminated these fliers during CHW Covid sensitization meetings
One of our researchers, @lizmwaniki254 spoke to a handful of low-income community members living in informal settlements in Nairobi to understand how the Government's COVID-19 directives are being received, understood and implemented. Read about it here: https://t.co/dHlY2aow7n
Patrick Amoth, DG, MoH: From our modelling, we may get 1,000 cases by the first week of April; 5,000 by mid-April and potentially 10,000 by the end of that month.