From Planning to Impact
Sites are selected to concentrate screening within defined communities, reaching each population deeply rather than spreading events thinly, because depth is what makes complete twelve-month follow-up possible.
Exact locations across Greater Accra will be announced closer to launch.
Three Lorry Park Screenings
Community-based blood pressure screening events at major transport hubs where trotro drivers and market women converge, the heart of the transport hub ecosystem.
Three Church-Based Health Fairs
Hypertension resource fairs at church communities, leveraging trusted parish networks and existing congregational gatherings to reach additional populations.
Pilot Timeline
- 1Foundation
- 2Training
- 3Dry Run
- 4Screening
- 5Follow-Up
- 6Evaluate
What Comes After the Pilot
What the pilot proves is whether the model holds. What comes after is what the model enables.
Post-pilot, the Initiative's focus shifts from running screening events to embedding the follow-up model into partner-led programs aligned with Ghana's Free Primary Healthcare Programme.
We are building toward three things:
- A licensable closed-loop follow-up curriculum that trained partners can deliver, so the model travels without the Initiative's staff on every site.
- Embedded continuity-of-care support within FPHC-aligned community and institutional networks.
- Longitudinal outcome data (retention, control, and loss-to-follow-up at 30, 90, 180, and 365 days) that informs national hypertension policy.
The Initiative's long-term value is not how many people we screen. It is how many stay alive on treatment because the system held.
Fund the Staying
Hypertension is detected in seconds. Care continues for years. Your contribution funds the systems that ensure a blood pressure diagnosis leads to care, retention, and control: twelve months of structured follow-up, training and supervision for community health workers, and the data discipline that turns each screening into outcomes evidence.
When you give to the Initiative, you fund the staying.
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