Amref Health Kenya: Innovative Partnership for Universal and Sustainable Healthcare

This month, I’m proud to present Amref Health Kenya, who together with their partner PharmAccess Foundation, collaborated to change the healthcare landscape in Kenya through a universal health care model called Innovative Partnership for Universal and Sustainable Healthcare (iPUSH).

More than 75% of Kenyans rely on out-of-pocket expenditures to access healthcare, a situation made much worse by COVID-19. The goal of the program is to expand financial resilience in Kenya by empowering low- income communities to effectively access health services and save for any additional health expenditure.

The program included a socio-economic mapping of 300,000 households in six counties conducted by 2,700 community health workers using an innovative mobile platform, which identified 100,000 indigent households eligible for health insurance subsidies. As a result, 94,000 additional people are now insured in Kenya, and health data is routinely collected by community health workers for provision of quality health services. 40% of those households are now able to save for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses.

Amref Kenya is planning to use this program to advance the asks in the PMNCH COVID-19 Call to Action.

Thank you Amref Kenya for being a PMNCH partner for change!