The World Health Organization (WHO) designated 2021 the International Year of Health and Care Workers. This year, we are honoring health workers by providing personal protective equipment (PPE) which includes gloves, surgical masks and face shields or another form of eye protection.
Community health workers engage in provision of care, through routine services such as integrated community case management as well as COVID-19 specific activities like case identification. They need minimum PPE to maintain essential health services and fight COVID-19 (“to keep safe and keep serving”).
Without PPE, community health workers are not able to provide essential health services to communities already underserved by health facilities. To date, we have committed and delivered PPE to 339,544 community health workers in 16 African countries. Track our progress on PPE deliveries, here, and work with us to provide PPE for community health workers by donating today.