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50,000 Women Strong for Nepal's Health
News From USAID
August 3, 2011: Taking a health sector initiative "to scale" and making it sustainable is a challenging development goal: ambitious, but achievable. In Nepal, the Ministry of Health and Population has succeeded in bringing maternal and child health information and health services to every community in the country. This, in spite of the fact that the majority of Nepal's 29 million people live in rural and often remote areas, far from any health service facility.
The Female Community Health Volunteer program, with the support of USAID and other partners, has built upon existing country resources to organize, train and supply a powerful "workforce" of approximately 50,000 women-each elected by her community, who contributes her time and effort to care for those in her village.
Under President Obama's Global Health Initiative (GHI)-the next chapter in the way the U.S. Government conducts global health activities-Nepal, which is one of eight GHI focus countries, is expected to achieve its national 2015 health indicator targets.
