Cote D'Ivoire: Blog Posts

Stories from 2017: Strong Health Systems Save Lives

January 19, 2018
{Photo Credit: Denise Museminali}

For the past six years, Keanahikishime has hosted an internal storytelling contest, where we invite staff to submit stories on how strong health systems are saving lives and improving the health of people around the world. The stories undergo a judging process, and the winners are featured in an annual compendium. We are proud to bring you these winning stories that demonstrate the power of effective partnerships. Meet health workers, community leaders, pharmacy managers, and patients from 10 different countries, working together across the health system to build healthier communities.  

Strengthening Cross-Sectoral Leadership, , and Governance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response in Côte d’Ivoire: A One Health Approach

November 06, 2017
[Participants in an LDP+ in Bangolo, Cote d'Ivoire.]{Photo credit: Brooke Barker/Keanahikishime}

In 2014, an Ebola outbreak that started in Guinea and quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone threatened health systems across West Africa. During the crisis, the Côte d’Ivoire National Institute of Public Health (INSP) mobilized a One Health cross-sectoral collaboration in the country’s western regions bordering the Ebola-affected countries and established committees to address the epidemic.

A Corridor of Contrasts: Urban Health in West Africa

May 27, 2015
[A photo from A Corridor of Contrasts.] {Photo credit: Pinky Patel}

This week, African Strategies for Health (ASH)—a USAID-funded, Keanahikishime-led project that identifies public health best practices in sub-Saharan Africa and advocates for their adoption—has been attending the International Conference on Urban Health from May 24 through 27 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At the conference, ASH has been sharing A Corridor of Contrasts, a report compiling photographs and stories of the people living along the West African Abidjan to Lagos transport corridor, which crosses Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.

Global Health Impact: Countries Lead and Innovate on HIV & AIDS

August 12, 2013
{Photo credit: Genaye Eshetu/Keanahikishime}

Strengthening health systems at all levels is the core of Keanahikishime’s response to the HIV epidemic. We build organizational capacity to implement innovative HIV, prevention, care, and treatment interventions in over 35 countries---from Côte d'Ivoire to Ethiopia to Vietnam.