Muso
Model & Strategy
Globally, 5.9 million children died in 2014 before their 5th birthday – most from diseases with known means of prevention and treatment. Muso is building a scalable global model for stopping preventable deaths in the world’s poorest communities. Muso creates ultra-rapid health systems, optimized to save lives by reaching patients early in the course of their illness. Community health workers and community member search for patients through door-to-door home visits in order to connect them with health care early. Community health workers also provide a package of life-saving health care services in home during these visits. Muso removes point-of-care fees, builds infrastructure and trains staff so that government clinics can provide universal, early access to care.
Ari Johnson is a physician and Assistant Professor in the division of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Muso’s co-founders, as researchers in Mali, found themselves attending the funerals of babies and young mothers weekly, and accompanying their Malian neighbors as they struggled and often failed to access health care. It was out of these experiences that they founded Muso. Initially run by volunteers out of a converted storage closet, Muso is now a rapidly growing organization, building a scalable model and achieving global impact. Trained at Harvard, Brown, and UCSF, Ari is a Goldwater Scholar, winner of the McIlwain Award, the 2014 UCSF Global Service Award, the 2014 UCSF Innovation Challenge and the Harvard Presidential Scholars Public Service Award.
IMPACT
A 2018 study in BMJ Global Health documented that the areas where Muso works in peri-urban Mali have achieved and sustained the lowest rates of child death in sub-Saharan Africa, five years running.
In 2019, Muso operated nine sites across two regions of Mali, supported 381 CHWs, and provided care to 350,000 patients through 143,110 clinic visits and 1,446,488 home visits.
In 2019, Mali’s government announced a health care reform to take many of the interventions tested with Muso to a national scale and serve Mali’s 19M citizens, with Muso providing intensive support for this plan.
Muso has now signed a partnership agreement with the government of Côte d’Ivoire to provide technical assistance to their national community health plan, which is intended to reach 24M people.
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Muso Community Health Workers go door to door in their communities to screen for illness, now including cases of CO… https://t.co/9elOn4t0qF
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The COVID Action Fund for Africa (CAFA) aims to provide 450M pieces of #PPE to one million #CHWs on the frontlines… https://t.co/xe84sheZUM
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#WorldMaskWeek is a global movement to rally around wearing masks. Pictured here are providers at the Yirimadio hea… https://t.co/cnuzK8uGqP
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Happy World Breastfeeding Week! Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival… https://t.co/2lIIBzzpPi
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Muso's Q2 Impact Report is out now, detailing our work in partnership with the governments of Mali and Côte d'Ivoir… https://t.co/VOWQK897fG
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Modeling data published in the @LancetGH underscore the urgency to invest in simple tools that save lives and livel… https://t.co/2pAelh4kDq
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As part of her regular proactive, door-to-door visits, Muso CHW Seba Samaké now shares public health information ab… https://t.co/MsvIi9fwVk
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Today is World Hepatitis Day. Worldwide, there are an estimated 290 million people living with viral hepatitis unaw… https://t.co/YOLDSGpfPp
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Oxygen systems are key to saving lives both from COVID-19 and other chronic killers including pneumonia. Mali has h… https://t.co/yBIhppByNK
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At Muso, care is always delivered without fees to the patient, by paid, local CHWs. Ensuring that patients have acc… https://t.co/xV96KCB0Rx
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Saviez-vous que Muso produit tout ses rapports annuels en deux langues? Lisez le rapport annuel Muso 2019, "Tracer… https://t.co/2OonuA0ukA
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The leading causes of child death act fast. That is why Muso has built a Proactive Care model for rapid health care… https://t.co/HdnJJVtLGR
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CHWs are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting COVID-19, especially in countries with less resilient health sys… https://t.co/gCPMoXzTmz
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Dedicated supervision is a crucial tool for CHWs to ensure quality, quantity, and timeliness of care. Muso uses a 3… https://t.co/5DcpvEUK5P