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Ruth was pregnant with her sixth child when she lost her husband and the father of her children, yet she made better decisions for herself and her baby - guided by a community health worker who kept showing up. Ruth John is a mother of six who lives in Mz

At the start of September, twenty-three team members traveling from five countries spent two days together at our largest in-person retreat yet under the theme Individual Strengths, Collective Impact. We highlighted individual achievements, celebrated the

How a public health inspector in Zanzibar supervises community health workers with different needs and what changed when she stopped planning meetings alone. Rehema Chananta works as a public health inspector at the Magogoni Dispensary, a government healt

Language is not just spoken, it's also how we listen. At D-tree, our team works alongside midwives in remote clinics, people recently diagnosed with diabetes and government officials deciding where to put limited resources. To truly understand their reali

Today is International Day of Play, a day to celebrate the power of play. Here are some of the families in a community that today, as a result of community health workers' home visits, think differently about play and understand the importance of play on

Since 2011, D-tree has worked in Malawi to keep pregnant women, mothers, and their children from falling through the gaps in the health system. The women and children we work with are not hard to reach because of geography. They are hard to reach because

Aditya Kulkarni, 2025 winner of the Marc Mitchell Award for Leadership & Innovation, has developed a wireless, AI-enabled, smartphone-based fetal monitoring solution. Last year, D-tree supported the Marc Mitchell Award for Innovation & Leadership for the

Community health workers (CHWs) are often the first - and sometimes only - point of care for communities. To do their jobs well and truly be that connective tissue between the health system and communities, they need timely, accurate guidance on what's ha

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Amira, 32 weeks pregnant, visits a clinic in Tanzania for one of her antenatal care visits. She is diagnosed with high blood pressure and prescribed medication. Weeks later, she runs out of pills. At home, a community health worker visits her as part of t