Mali Health improves maternal and child health by supporting women, communities, and the community health system to develop local solutions that ensure every mother and child has access to quality primary care.
We aim to end preventable maternal and child mortality by helping communities build participatory, community-led, and equitable health systems that meet the needs of the most vulnerable members of their community.
BUILDING A COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEM 
Mali’s decentralized health system presents many challenges, and many opportunities. When we help communities manage their resources to improve the quality and availability of maternal and child healthcare in their health centers, the results are astounding. By supporting community members, we help the health system to function the way it was designed to – with full community participation and local ownership.
OUR IMPACT 
$50,000
The amount that 5,200 women in peri-urban communities are saving every year, 25 cents at a time
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Mali Health community health workers have not lost a single mother or child in their care in over 8.5 years
87%
Facility-based delivery rate at partner health centers, versus 55% nationally
98%
Vaccination coverage rate at partner health centers, versus 20.2% nationally
UPDATES
Meet the women of Coopérative Bènkadi in Sanankoro
One morning in March, at the beginning of Mali’s hot season, we went to meet Fatoumata to learn more about the activities of the women of Sanankoro, and their cooperative. Despite the blazing heat, 40° C (104° F) in the shade, Fatoumata generously welcomes us under...
Collecting data and waste for Gnaman ni Sôrô ni Kènèya
The following are excerpts written by Adam Aicha Hanne, an MPH – PharmD student who spent her summer practicum working with the Mali Health team in Bamako. She worked on the Gnaman ni Sôrô ni Kènèya project with the Community Capacity Building department. The goals of...
Meet ASACO BAKON
In Mali’s decentralized health system, ASACOs (community health associations) are instrumental to not only the delivery of primary health care services – particularly maternal and child healthcare – but they are also the primary structure that ensures community...
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P.O. Box 51632
Durham, NC 27717
Hamdallaye ACI 2000
Rue 100 Porte 200
Commune IV du District de Bamako, Mali
info@malihealth.org
+1 617 475 0995
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