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Here we share blogs about our work, collaboration and impact. Read updates from country teams, stories from projects and what’s been on our minds lately.
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D-tree
Is community health still the best investment to improve health for all?
As international aid – and in particular health funding – contracts at an alarming pace, the demand for affordable integrated interventions that are laser-focused...
Riccardo Lampariello | Mar 26, 2025 | 10 min
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D-Tree
Tuberculosis management among migrants using Near Field Communication
A year ago, I visited western Thailand with American Refugee Committee at Alight , a nonprofit organization working to improve lives of refugees...
Rebecca Litner | Dec 02, 2019 | 7 min
Jamii ni Afya
Support, counselling, and follow-up: Leveraging digital tools to encourage new health behaviors
I was born and raised in Pemba, the second largest island in the Zanzibar archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. Growing up in Pemba, I witnessed...
Salum Mbaruok | Feb 20, 2019 | 5 min
Jamii ni Afya
Community Health Toolkit Selected to Support Zanzibar’s National Community Health Volunteer Program
As announced in June 2018, D-tree International is thrilled to have received support from the Fondation Botnar and Human Development Innovation...
Rachel Hofmann | Dec 20, 2018 | 4 min
Jamii ni Afya
Community Health Volunteers, Digital Health, and a path towards Safer Deliveries: Bi Jokha’s Story
Bi Jokha is one of 400 Community Health Volunteers working in Zanzibar with D-tree’s Safer Deliveries Program. Safer Deliveries leverages mobile...
Samira Said | Oct 09, 2018 | 6 min
D-Tree
3 Reasons Why the Supervisor Role is Important in Digital Community-Based Family Planning Programs
The Supervisor’s role in digital community-based Family Planning programs is often considered an afterthought, but we have seen that the role...
Neema Kafwimi | Sep 06, 2018 | 5 min
Jamii ni Afya
Family Planning Plus: A Comprehensive Digital System
Through 8 years of developing and implementing family planning systems with four NGO partners, we have established the solution Family Planning...
Rebecca Litner | Aug 30, 2018 | 4 min
