Millennium Villages

Apr 26

Improved Eyesight Gives Patients a New Lease on Life in Ruhiira

By Natalia Mroz

Thanks to an annual eye care initiative launched in 2011 in Ruhiira by the Millennium Villages Project in partnership with the Tommy Hilfiger Foundation, villagers like Mzee Rwebituzi are able to regain their sight and their lives.

Apr 30

Social and Emotional Learning in Ruhiira, Uganda

By Golda Calonge

The practice of cross-generational sex (CGS), has extremely negative impacts on school-age girls in Uganda, increasing their risk of HIV infection and reducing their self-esteem. The service and emotional learning (SEL) initiative in the Ruhiira Millennium Village aims to provide support and education for vulnerable adolescent girls. Above is a photo of girls participating in Eminyeeto, a young women's empowerment program in Ruhiira.

Apr 05

With 1,000 Days Left to Reach MDGs, A Look Back and Forward

By Jesper Frant

With the 1,000-day milestone to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in mind, the Earth Institute's Sustainable Development Seminar gathered professors Jeffrey Sachs, Prabhjot Singh, and Vijay Modi reflect on the progress of the Millennium Villages Project.

Mar 13

Emerging TB Treatments Require New Paradigm for Drug Classification

By Jesper Frant

Due to a recent resurgence in tuberculosis research focused on drug development, several new antituberculosis drugs are in the pipeline, and the standard of care for tuberculosis might soon change.

Feb 27

African Voices: Community Health in Northern Ghana

By Fatahiya Yakuba, Community Health Nurse - Kpasenkpe Health Center - West Mamprusi District, Northern Ghana

This post is part of a series from the Millennium Village site of SADA in northern Ghana which was launched in late 2012. Through their own voice, the series explores how the lives of community members are changing over the duration of the project. Please check back with us as they continue to tell their stories.

Feb 14

New Paper: Healthcare Services for Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Within Reach

By MVP

A new paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has determined that providing rural sub-Saharan Africans a close-to-client health system by paid, full-time community health workers by 2015 would cost $2.6 billion per year, or just $6.86 per person covered by the program.

Feb 07

First Caesarian Section Sees Healthy Mother and Baby in Ruhiira

By MVP

For mothers and newborn children in the Ruhiira, Uganda Millennium Village, a new operating theatre at the Rwekubo Health Center can mean the difference between life and death.

Feb 06

Crowd-Sourcing CHW Scale-up - Part I

By Dr. Prabhjot Singh

In part one of a two-part blog series, Dr. Prabhjot Singh explains the origins of the One Million Community Healthcare Workers Campaign and how the campaign will be using crowd-sourced input to inform and drive its activities.

Jan 31

A Vital Link to Health Services in Sauri, Kenya

By Claire Bulger

Community Health Workers take advantage of low and high-tech tools to provide a critical link between village residents and the local healthcare clinic.

Jan 29

Mother, Teacher, Health Worker, Business Woman: Elizabeth Kabach Does It All

By Elizabeth Kabach

Elizabeth, age 37, talks about her life in northern Ghana in the Builsa District where a new Millennium Village site is just starting up.

Jan 29

The African Union Endorses New Community Health Worker Campaign And 2013 Roll-Out

By MVP

Community health workers are bringing life-saving care to the most vulnerable in the Millennium Villages throughout rural Africa.

Apr 29

Health Care Turns from Unattainable Luxury to Basic Service

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Zina Salum, 24, flanked by two barefoot girls in bright dresses, waits patiently for her turn on a bench at the Ilolangulu dispensary in the Mbola cluster (Tanzania).

Jun 12

Health care boosted by a special training in Ruhiira

By Anubha Agarwal

Sounds of laughter intermingled with thumping feet and clapping hands ring across the room as community health workers (CHWs) in Ruhiira perform a traditional Baciga dance.

Jun 17

Koraro Homes Get a Face Lift

By Jessica Fanzo & Aregawi Tedella

The Millennium Village of Koraro is located in the Hawzien district in northern Ethiopia, an area surrounded by jagged escarpments and dusty, arid land.

Jun 19

Medical Equipment Donated to Ruhiira

By Shakilah Bint Shiekh

Martins Okongo, opens the boxes General Electric (GE), the multi-national American technology and services conglomerate, has entered into a partnership with the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Ruhiira, as a sign of its commitment to supporting Uganda to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Jul 07

Nigerian Mosquito Net Deliveries Protect Millions from Malaria

By Ray Chambers

In the effort to end malaria deaths, Nigeria is square one: it is Africa’s most populated country, and represents one quarter of the continent’s malaria burden.

Sep 09

Community Health Worker Training in Dertu, Kenya

By Jackline Oluoch

The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory).

Dec 05

Mbola health team marks World AIDS Day

By Gerson Isaac Nyadzi & Deusdedit Mjungu

On December 1 of every year Tanzanians join other people in the world to mark World AIDS Day.

Jan 28

Tanzania government draws lessons from Mbola for the fight against malaria

By Deusdedit Mjungu

Since it’s inauguration in mid 2006, the Mbola Millennium Villages Project (MVP), Tanzania, has addressed the disease burden in the area and malaria is cited as one of the most important health issues facing the community.

Jun 22

Coding Progress: Matt Berg on ICT in the Millennium Villages

By Amy Shaw

When is a text message more than just “hello?” When a community health worker can text symptoms of an illness and receive an instant diagnosis without leaving a patient’s home.

Aug 17

Faith’s story of hope: Towards virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV

By Philip Wambua

It is 10:50 am on a cloudless August day in Western Kenya. The HIV and AIDS Counselor from Sauri Health Centre and I have taken the short drive to the home of Lilian Awino Adhiambo, a 32 year old mother of 6 children aged 9 months to 13 years.

Apr 14

UNAIDS and MVP review the first results of their partnership

By Philip Wambua & Yanis Ben Amor

Teams from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and several UN bodies met in Nairobi in February to review the progress registered so far in the partnership launched a year ago between UNAIDS and the Project.

Feb 23

Infection Free Health Facilities: Ruhiira Scores First Place!

By Shakilah Bint Shiekh

Reducing infection risk in Ruhiira, Uganda

Jul 29

Empowering Local Women to Take Charge of Community Health

By Katherine Kalaris

Part of a blog series from MVP summer interns.

Jul 10

Senegal’s Minister for Health applauds partnership with MVP

By Natalia Mroz

Jeffrey Sachs, Minister Awa Marie Coll-Seck and Amadou Niang open this year's Millennium Villages retreat in Dakar, Senegal.

May 18

Millennium Villages Project Corrects Lancet Paper

By Paul Pronyk

Correction of Lancet Paper.

May 08

Child Mortality Declines Sharply in Millennium Villages

By MVP

A new paper published in The Lancet reveals a significant drop in mortality recorded among children under the age of five resulting from an integrated approach to rural development

Mar 19

Six Months in Ethiopia as a Health Volunteer

By Richard Buchta

Richard Buchta (left) volunteers from GlaxoSmithKline to help train local health extension workers to start tuberculosis surveillance programs in Koraro, Ethiopia.

Oct 21

Kenyan Minister Asserts MVP’s Impact on Nation-Wide Malaria Breakthrough

By Charity Ngilu

Former Kenyan Minister of Health.

Jan 17

Breakthrough in Saving Lives in Rural Africa

By Jeffrey Sachs

Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs meets with Rokia, a community health worker in the Tiby Millennium Village in Mali. Mobile phones provide the workers with a vital link to a larger health care system. Photo: Millennium Promise

Aug 24

Aspen: Where Passing is Synonymous with Independence.

By Jessica Masira

Jessica is the Team Leader for Sauri Millennium Village (Kenya). This is her first trip to the USA and she'll be blogging with us this week on the go from the USA Pro Cycling Challenge for Millennium Promise.

Jan 31

Falanes: Beating AIDS Against All Odds

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

Five years ago, Falanes Josephat hit rock bottom: she suspected her husband of being HIV positive, got tested and found out she was too. In poor, rural Malawi, this meant one thing: death. Five years on, not only is she still alive, she has a job and even a future.

Feb 02

Sauri Looks Back on Five Years of Success

By Salome Munyendo

Located in Western Kenya, Sauri was the first Millennium Village (MV) to see the light in 2005. Five years on, the project area has grown to nearly 70,000 people and has registered numerous successes in its multi-sectoral approach.

Feb 22

Innovative Tropical Laboratory in the Middle of the Ghanaian Rainforest

By Nela Berlanga & Yanis Ben Amor

When I arrived to the Bonsaaso Millennium Villages Project (MVP) site, my first impressions regarding the status of healthcare delivery were above expectations: I was pleasantly surprised about the great work that MVP and the Ghana Health Service had carried out in this cluster.

Mar 18

Hygiene: Talking About It to Clear the Air

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

‘Before, we were using the bush. Now we have latrines for boys and girls, and the headmaster told us how to use them.’ The 12-year-old boy’s candid explanation is a reminder of the lack of hygiene that still prevails in schools in rural and poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa.

Jul 06

New Health and Community Facilities in Sauri

By Salome Munyendo

Members of the small community of Uranga, in Western Kenya, don’t have to walk long distances anymore to access healthcare. Now, they can visit St. Elizabeth Onding dispensary, which was inaugurated recently by local officials and the Sauri Millennium Village team.

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