Muso

The Mission

Save kids' lives

How It Works

Speed! The key is to professionalize—train, pay, supervise, and equip—community health workers (CHWs).  These CHWs provide fast treatment at the doorstep and accompany sicker patients to the nearset clinic. Clinics are tuned up with better equipment,supplies, and training, and care is free for kids and moms.

The Dream

The core model—proCHWs + tuned clinics + free care—becomes a part of government health services across Africa.

Why We're In

Muso delivered. In a rigorous trial in Mali their approach dropped child mortality by an astonishing 90%. More recently, another rigorous study in Mali documented a 60% drop in child mortality despite that a war broke out half-way through it—it is in fact the largest, fastest drop in child mortality ever documented in a conflict zone. Now Muso is working in two more countries—Côte d’Ivoire and Zambia—to embed and scale the model through government health systems. Muso has become a leader in the rapidly growing movement to professionalize community health workers across the globe, and while this is tough time for any idea that requires increased government spending in Africa, we think Muso's record justifies an all-out effort and the backing it needs.