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- EIN 20-3171837
- (415) 854-0080
- 3254 19th Street 2nd Floor San Francisco CA 94110-1917 USA
- www.musohealth.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Health, International, International Development, Public Health
Mission: Through action, training, research and advocacy, muso works to end preventable deaths in vulnerable communities by stopping cycles of poverty and disease.
Programs: Healthcare delivery: since 2008, muso has partnered with the malian ministry of health to design and test a model health care system that improves child survival and ensures quality health care for all community members. We designed a health system to deliver life-saving tools to prevent and cure disease quickly and efficiently to everyone who needs them. Our model systematically removes financial, informational, infrastructural, and geographic barriers to health care. We employ three key strategies: (1) community health workers conduct door-to-door home visits, actively searching for sick community members. They provide prevention, counseling, diagnosis and treatment of simple disease, and accompany patients to the health center as needed; (2) health care financing reform removes fees for those who cannot afford to pay; (3) clinical capacity building through the construction of clinical facilities and training of medical providers. We employ these three strategies to reach patients earlier and connect each of yirimadjo's more than 77,000 citizens with quality health care.
economic and community empowerment: our support fills a critical financial access gap to enable women living in poverty to successfully enter the marketplace. Muso fosters participants' economic self sufficiency through training, savings and low and no-interest loans. Supported with technical assistance and trainings, participants grow their individual enterprises, enabling them to support the health and well-being of their families.