Capacity Building

 

The Community Based Malaria Program builds healthcare system capacity by integrating community outreach, health care financing reform, clinical training, and infrastructure development, in partnership with local, regional, and national Ministry of Health structures. Clinical training is designed to improve the quality of care both for malaria and other areas of primary care, with a particular focus on maternal-child health. Trainings develop high-impact clinical skills, including malaria diagnostic protocols and techniques, integrated malaria case management, data collection for malaria prevention and treatment, malnutrition, and the prevention of health-care associated infections. Through interactive clinical teaching rounds, the program aims to cultivate a culture of participatory clinical learning and evidence-based medicine that facilitates ongoing quality improvement.

As the CBMP systematically removes access barriers to care and utilization increases, expanded and enhanced infrastructure is necessary. In partnership with the Yirimadjo CSCOM and Community Health Association (ASACO), Project Muso constructed and equipped a new clinical care building at the Yirimadjo CSCOM, and renovated the previous clinical block into an expanded maternity ward and administrative area. Project Muso also installed alcohol-based hand-sanitizer stations at each point of patient contact to improve infection control. This partnership with the Yirimadjo CSCOM ensures that Project Muso does not offer overlapping services, and that it strengthens local public health care infrastructure and quality control.