ROW’s vision of “a future when the best treatments will be available to ALL people, at ALL times, in ALL the world” leads us to be inclusive of the most underserved communities. It is the rural and “peri-urban” (those adjacent to a city) communities in low-income countries that are the last to receive important services such as healthcare.
Targeting the Least Served Communities
THANK YOU!
December 19, 2019
2019 Program Report
February 13, 2020
As highlighted in our October 2019 update (https://rowpharma.org/community-health-workers-and-epilepsy/), ROW launched a partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) in the Linda Compound near Lusaka, Zambia. The partnership will test the effectiveness of using community health workers (CHWs) to provide ongoing support to households that include children impacted by epilepsy. The CHWs will also actively engage with leaders in schools, churches and community organizations to help address the harmful stigma around epilepsy.
BCH has made impressive progress since the September launch. This includes the development of CHW materials, training of the CHWs, identification of families for support and assigning of clinical officers to each family. Ten CHWs were successfully trained and passed the required assessments. They are now working with 40 participating families, visiting each family every two weeks.
We are thrilled at the strong start to this partnership and look forward to seeing what lessons are learned in the coming months. Based on a successful pilot in Zambia, we envision expanding our support for CHWs to additional countries.
THANK YOU . . .
. . . to everyone who participated in our GROW GLO campaign (https://rowpharma.org/help-grow-glo/). Contributions exceeded $3,500, with more coming in through monthly donations. This is enough to serve more than 200 people with epilepsy in Masindi, Uganda for five months with medication and support provided by Guiding Light Orphans (GLO) (https://www.guidinglightorphans.org).
