She Heals the World: At a Glance

Impact Magazine: Issue 32

She Heals the World, launched in 2024 and led by CARE and a wide range of partners, is a global initiative to equip and empower 2.5 million women Frontline Community Health Workers by 2030.

These women are pivotal in bridging the gap between underserved communities and healthcare systems, ensuring equal access to lifesaving services in the world’s most at-risk and hard-to-reach regions.

Three levels to support community health workers:

Individual: Improving skills and confidence through training, essential supplies, and access to digital, economic, and leadership opportunities.
Community: Addressing harmful social norms and fostering local support.
Systems: Integrating informal health workers into formal healthcare systems, listening to their opinions on policy decisions, and advocating for fair pay.

Why invest in community health workers:

They provide care to 5 billion people.
They can help reduce the staggering economic losses ($6 trillion) incurred annually because of poor healthcare.
They could prevent 7.4 million unnecessary deaths every year by 2035.
They can help reduce the staggering economic losses ($6 trillion) incurred annually because of poor healthcare.

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