Tiyatien Health: Justice In Health (Liberia)

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The Problem

The world faces a shortage of 4 million health workers. The atrocious gap is especially acute in Africa, which bears 33% of the world’s maternal and child disease, yet has only 2.8% of the global health workforce. Nowhere is the crisis worse than in rural areas of post-war nations like Liberia, where conflict decimated the health system, leaving 51 doctors to serve 4 million people. Conventional hospital-based services have failed to reach rural Liberians, 60% of who lack access to health care.

Plan of Action

Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Tiyatien Health partners with the Liberian government to pioneer a model community health worker (CHW) system that is redefining how post-conflict nations rebuild rural public health services. Filling the massive health worker shortage in rural post- conflict areas, our CHWs form a novel locally-led primary care workforce that delivers comprehensive home-based medical and social services -- providing access to care for the poorest of the poor.
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Global Poverty
HIV and AIDS
Sex and Relationships
Human Rights
Global Health
Millennium Dev Goals
Women's Rights

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