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Ugandan health authorities acknowledge that one challenge for community health workers is transportation. The burden of poverty here can leave health facilities lacking ambulances or even fuel to move them.
World Bicycle Relief, a Chicago-based nonprofit, promotes the Buffalo Bicycle in remote parts of Africa. It collaborates with governments, non-governmental groups, and others who use the bikes to improve access to health services.
In Uganda, an East African country of 45 million people, efforts to market the bicycle have focused on supporting health workers, who visit people’s homes and report any issues to authorities.
Ugandan health authorities acknowledge that one challenge for community health workers is transportation. The burden of poverty here can leave health facilities lacking ambulances or even fuel to move them.
World Bicycle Relief, operating locally as Buffalo Bicycles Uganda, has collaborated with Ugandan health authorities since 2023 to equip 331 workers in two of the country’s 146 districts.
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Community health workers using the bicycles reported a 108% increase in households reached each week, and the time to reach health facilities dropped by nearly half, according to a study published in May by World Bicycle Relief. The impact of the bikes is being felt in the town as well as the villages.
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