Mali Health

06/25/2025

For those thinking about the future of healthcare and health systems on the continent, this series is where the most critical conversation is happening.

If you believe in a future that is led by local experts and by the consumers and providers of healthcare developing solutions in their communities, please join these enlightening, enriching, and action-oriented conversations.

If you did not catch it, the first roundtable shared wise observations from experienced leaders across the continent who are charting a path forward and who raised so many important considersations, and opportunities. Be sure to watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO9-ktVbJZM

We look forward to tomorrow's conversation - sure to be as informative and engaging as the first - and hope to hear even more about the communtiy-led and grassroots strategies that are contributing to efficiency and impact.

Can Africa do more with what it already has?

Join us on tomorrow, June 25, for the 2nd roundtable in our “Seizing the Moment” series.

With external aid declining and a $12 billion gap looming, African countries must urgently reimagine . This roundtable will explore how governments, civil society, and the private sector can collaborate to deliver smarter, more efficient, and people-centred health services.

→ June 25, 2025
→ 1PM GMT | 2PM WAT | 3PM SAST | 4PM EAT
→ Register now: https://ow.ly/L2oS50WfCFg

04/19/2025

📣 Join us next week for a conversation with our team in Mali.

The effects of the USAID shutdown are being felt deeply in Mali, where we are seeing disruptions to essential health services, especially maternal and child health.

Join us hear more about the impacts on families and communities, and organizations like ours who work with them.

🗓️ Mali Health Grassroots Update
📍 Zoom
🕒 24 April 2025, 12pm Pacific | 3pm Eastern | 7pm Bamako

This is a chance to listen, learn, and stay connected to some of those most affected by the funding cuts. We hope you’ll join us.

09/22/2024

Mali Health is launching a giving circle to support women in Bamako, Mali in West Africa.

🌟 Are you passionate about supporting women and making a lasting impact? 🌟

Join us to learn more about collective giving and stand in solidarity with women dedicated to improving the health of their families and communities in Bamako, Mali! Together, we can create meaningful change.

By joining the giving circle, you’ll have the opportunity to:

💖 **Make a meaningful difference:** Your contribution will go directly to women in Bamako working to improve health and wellbeing for their families, communities, and each other.

👩‍🏫 **Learn and connect directly:** Hear firsthand from women addressing health challenges in Bamako, learning from their experiences and how they’re working to create positive change in their communities.

🤝 **Connect with like-minded individuals:** Build relationships with others who share your passion for making a difference!

🌍 **Amplify your impact:** Pooling your resources with others will achieve greater results—the beauty of collective giving.

Plus, it will be fun! So grab a friend and join us today!

We can make a difference for a cause that truly matters!

Learn more and sign up today : https://malihealth.org/giving-circle/

06/17/2024

The world is not on track to meet SDG 3.1: Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100 000 live births by 2030. In Mali, the MMR stands at 325.

If the reduction of maternal deaths continues at its current rate, one WHO estimate shows that SDG 3.1 would not be met in the African Region until 2100, after 125 million mothers died from a cause related to childbirth.

But this is a problem that can be solved, if we choose to solve it.

Please join us, Pathfinder International, and several partners this Thursday for a conversation about how women and communities can and must be at the heart of the solutions.

Maternal health equity is an urgent challenge that can be solved May 9, 2024 | Mali Health Worldwide, we are losing ground on maternal health outcomes. Maternal deaths are rising in many parts of the world, and we are not on track to meet SDG 3.1: Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to....

06/12/2024

Worldwide, we are losing ground on maternal health outcomes.

At the same time, most maternal deaths, especially those in Mali, can be prevented.

On Thursday 20 June, join Mali Health team members Oumou Camara Ouattara and Dr. Lamine Sogoba as they participate in an important discussion on the shifts we need to make to end preventable maternal mortality by putting women and communities at the heart of our approaches and solutions.

We're honored to work with Pathfinder and partners in the region to call for more attention and resources to help community health systems face and overcome this urgent challenge.

05/05/2024

The work of midwives is indispensable to helping women and children access quality healthcare in their communities.

Whether serving at a community health center or as a traditional birth attendant, midwives are essential links in the chain to quality healthcare; sometimes they are the only one.

Our work - whether supporting women to understand and finance their healthcare, deploying community health workers, or facilitating participatory quality improvement strategies - simply would not be possible without midwives.

Midwives are crucial to the community-led and women-centered strategies that foster strong, resilient, equitable community health systems - and better health for all.

Thank you to Awa, Haby, and all midwives in Mali who work so hard to provide care to women and children in their communities every day, despite all the challenges they face.

04/22/2024

This year's theme is .

In the peri-urban communities where we work, 87% of residents say that plastic waste management is a major challenge in their community.

With the Gnaman ni Sôrô ani Kènèya project, we're working with three peri-urban communities in Bamako turn that challenge into an opportunity, by building local, sustainable livelihoods that reduce and reuse plastic waste - leading to healthier futures for all.

Communities like Kalabambougou are talking about and taking charge of plastic waste - and we all can join them.

Learn more here: https://malihealth.org/gsk/

04/05/2024

For World Health Worker Week, we are celebrating the incredible work of our community health workers in peri-urban Bamako who have not lost a mother or child in their care in over 10 years!

As we join the calls for in every community, we also want to recognize the contributions that communities make to invest in and support their health workers every day.

The evidence is clear that community health workers are essential to primary healthcare systems. In Mali, we have the opportunity to support women-centered and community-led health systems where communities have the leading role, in collaboration with health authorities, policymakers, and international donors.

This , we're sharing why we think communities deserve a stronger voice in conversations about investing in and why we shouldn't overlook their contributions:

During World Health Worker Week, let's remember that communities and patients are not just the recipients of health worker services, but investors in them.

12/28/2023

The second year of Gnaman ni Sôrô ani Kènèya, our adaptation of the Sustainable Community Project approach of Green Africa Youth Organization, has been all about community engagement.

We have been organizing in three peri-urban communities and over 1,000 community members, including over 800 women, have participated in community events like this one in Sabalibougou to discuss social norms and their perspectives on , , challenges, and . Our media messages, based on what we've learned, reached over 180,000 people.

Next year, we’ll begin to launch the , model, beginning with and cooperatives that will create livelihoods for women and youth that not only reduce waste, improve sanitation, and reduce environmental health hazards, but will create new sources of nutritious, local foods where access is scarce.

12/22/2023

This time last year, you helped us raise funds to support 400 women and mothers to begin income-generating activities so they could provide for the basic needs of their families.

Women received training in local traditions like fabric dyeing and henna tattooing, and received support to buy the materials they would need to launch their micro-enterprises.

After just six months, the average profit women earned was $75 ! That amount goes such a long way to providing nutritious food, soap, medicine, and healthcare - especially at such a challenging time in Mali.

We are so grateful for your support, and especially the enormous impact it has made in the hands of women living in peri-urban communities!

12/22/2023

The participation of communities, especially women and youth, is one of the pillars of Mali's community health system, but reaching that goal has been a challenge.

New strategies could help ensure that this core value is realized, and Dr. Sogoba and Dr. Bathily are sharing the experiences and successes that our partners have had in implementing participatory quality improvement methods.

Together, we can ensure that every community health system in Mali can engage meaningfully with the communities they serve, include women and youth, and provide quality healthcare.

Since Mali Health began our participatory quality improvement work nearly ten years ago, we have worked directly with 28 community health centers (CSComs) and 11 health districts. Though we focus on overlooked peri-urban communities, we also adapted our approach for use by CSComs in rural communitie...