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Empowering Community Health Workers in the Philippines

How digital health solutions can close gaps in public health care especially in remote and geographically disadvantaged areas

Across Philippine villages – especially in the rural countryside – community health workers more widely known as Barangay Health Workers or BHWs act as both frontline health centre staff and community health mobilizers, bridging national and local health programs to remote locations and augmenting the totality of the country’s public health workforce which, since the last few decades, has been facing crisis-level shortages.