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When Mary Dawa and her family arrived at the sprawling Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in northwest Uganda seven years ago, something critically important was missing: medical services. But slowly, that began to change.
Earlier this year, a team of locally recruited health workers came to provide Dawa and her community with COVID-19 vaccines. While there, they offered other primary and preventive healthcare services too: routine immunizations, dietary help for malnourished children, screenings for other diseases, and guidance on maternal and neonatal care.
These services are part of a bold, community-focused project that seeks to strengthen healthcare systems across sub-Saharan Africa. Amref Health Africa, the continent’s largest health development organization, is leading this work thanks to a grant from The Pfizer Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Pfizer Inc.
“There is a need to believe in our health systems,” says Dawa, who had fled from neighboring South Sudan. “And I am so proud that these interventions worked.”