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Healthy Learners trains teachers to become school health workers (SHWs) who ensure timely diagnosis and treatment for school-aged children, reducing sickness and absenteeism. SHWs make preliminary diagnoses and triage decisions, treating mild conditions at school while making referrals to associated clinics for more severe conditions. The clinics, meanwhile, offer expedited care to those patients referred by SHWs. This collaborative approach results in better health outcomes, improved attendance, and a reduction in illness-related complications, all at an ongoing annual cost of less than USD 1.51 per child, less than ~1% of Zambia’s expenditure on education for primary school children. As of June 2024 Healthy Learners has trained over 4,000 SHW who serve more than 850,000 children across 480 public schools.

won the ¶·Å£ÆåÅÆÔÚÏß Optimus Foundation COVID Prize competition in 2021 and helped Zambia to be one of the first countries on the continent to reopen schools safely. Healthy Learners is at a crucial inflection point with the model being adopted as policy by the Ministry of Education of Zambia, which concurrently established a School Health and Nutrition Department responsible for supporting the scale-up and management of the program.Ìý

Africa Frontline First (AFF) aims to institutionalize and scale 200,000 professionalized community health workers (CHWs) across 10 African countries by 2030. is a collaborative initiative that supports the financing and strengthening of integrated and sustainable community health service delivery to achieve health for all.

The ¶·Å£ÆåÅÆÔÚÏß Optimus Foundation is providing financial and technical support to AFF to incorporate outcome-based funding design and identify AFF countries most fit to develop outcome-based elements into their financing plans. Ultimately, this will help mobilize new and better sources of financing for countries’ community health systems.

Traditional care systems are not meeting the needs of most patients living in poverty, resulting in millions of preventable deaths annually. Early access can avert nearly all deaths of children under five years old. has documented rapid health improvements from its proactive care model, including sustaining a rate of child death in Mali lower than any country in sub- Saharan Africa for five years running.

Three core program components shrink the time from symptom onset to treatment. Community healthcare workers (CHWs) proactively search for households with pregnant mothers and children, provide care in the home and refer more complex cases to expanded government-run health centers. In 2023, Muso advocated in Mali for the successful recognition of CHWs as an official part of the health system. And in Côte D’Ivoire, Muso supported a new strategic plan for community health with concrete steps towards the professionalization of CHWs, with pay in alignment with the national minimum wage.

Integrate Health saves lives in the world’s most neglected communities by integrating professional community health workers with improved care in public clinics. This powerful combination transforms the poorest-performing government clinics into lifesaving centers of excellence. currently serves more than 200,000 people through several health centers across Togo. Integrate Health is not only expanding access for patients but also enhancing the quality of primary healthcare delivered Over three years, they've observed a 50 percent reduction in child mortality in the pilot communities where Integrate Health works. Building on this success, Integrate Health has expanded significantly in Togo and replicated the model to Guinea. In a significant step toward long-term sustainability, Integrate Health successfully transferred key activities of the Integrated Primary Care Program to the Kozah district health authorities in 2023.

Significant gaps exist in the effective delivery of reliable and affordable healthcare facilities in rural India, where close to 900 million people live. According to studies, 75% of India’s health infrastructure is concentrated in urban areas where only 27% of the population lives⁷. Prompt and appropriate care could reduce maternal and child deaths significantly. is an impact-driven, technology-enabled startup with a vision to make primary healthcare more accessible, equitable, integrated, and evidence-based. Karma Healthcare operates e-Doctor clinics providing nurse-assisted online medical consultations by qualified doctors, diagnostic services and referral services to underserved communities in semi-urban and rural India. Founded in 2014, Karma has expanded its assisted telemedicine model to over 50 locations across 8 states in India. The company has witnessed a threefold increase in its patient base over the last three years impacting more than 350,000 lives with validated positive health outcomes.

Jacaranda Maternity is a social enterprise that provides high quality, affordable, respectful family health care services in Kenya. runs a chain of maternity hospitals and facilitated over 10,000 successful deliveries and only 4 neonatal deaths per 1,000 deliveries to date. The price per delivery is affordable for mothers without health insurance or covered only by public health insurance.Ìý