A doctor-led association strengthening community health across Cameroon through health education, outreach services and partnerships, combining community engagement with digital platforms to reach people that health information and services usually miss.
Health education and outreach with communities across Cameroon.
Everything CHA does is designed to reduce barriers to quality health information and services for the people who need them most, in the community and online.
Accurate health information in the languages communities actually understand, delivered through community talks, radio and social platforms. We work beyond awareness, using social and behaviour change approaches to shift the everyday practices that drive health outcomes.
Direct screening and care reaching the most vulnerable through field campaigns: blood pressure, malaria, reproductive and maternal health, delivered where communities live and linked back to the facilities that serve them.
Health content produced and distributed on the platforms our communities already use. Our flagship series has run for 80 episodes and built an audience of over 2,000, reaching people every week that field outreach alone could never touch.
Strategic funding proposals and institutional partnerships to sustain and scale our operations, working alongside health organisations, government and donors who share our vision for community-led health improvement.
A community-driven health education platform delivering accurate, relatable health information in Pidgin English. We tackle misinformation at its root using the language people actually speak to improve health-seeking behaviour and reduce preventable illness.
Follow on Facebook →Engaged audience receiving regular Pidgin-language health content.
Live every Saturday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm. Health talks across Cameroon.
Meeting communities in the languages they actually use at home.
Every topic reviewed by a medical doctor before publication.
We break down important health topics in Pidgin English accurate, relatable, and made for our communities.
Mental health na something weh plenty people no tok about for our community. Dr. Wilfred explain how we fit take care of our mind just like we take care of our body.
Malaria na one of di biggest health wahala for our region. We explain di signs, how for prevent am, and when for go hospital all for simple Pidgin weh everybody go understand.
Every woman weh dey carry belle need for go hospital for check-up. Di earlier di better. We explain why antenatal care dey save lives and how for access am for our community.
Moments from our fieldwork, outreach, and partnerships across the South West Region.
Dr. Tabe leading an antenatal education session.
Post-natal follow-up visit with a new mother.
Team with Fako America Youths at the Maternal Health Project.
Recording outreach data during a field visit.
Group health education at a local health facility.
Community Health Association was founded on 24 December 2021 by a group of medical doctors and health professionals determined to change how underserved communities across Cameroon access and understand health information.
We operate as a non-profit, apolitical association rooted in Limbe with a mandate to grow nationally through partnered institutions.
Constituted in Limbe on 24 December 2021 by medical professionals.
Official acknowledgement from the Senior Divisional Officer for Fako.
Headquarters in Fako Division, South West Region, Cameroon.
Registered under Cameroon Law N° 90/053 · Ref. 920/G37/VOL.1/SAAJP.
We work through content creation, sensitization, health campaigns and outreach activities for easy access to quality health care services and to strengthen community involvement in health issues.
We believe in communities where people can reach their full potential for health and wellbeing where good health information, clinical care, and community support are within reach of everyone.
Expand individuals' knowledge of the diseases that affect them and their communities.
Understand and document what prevents communities from accessing quality healthcare.
Make quality healthcare services easier to reach for individuals within their communities.
Partner with associations and organisations that share our goals and vision.
These values shape everything we do from how we create content to how we run our outreach activities.
Our partners see us as an educational tool. Every activity must teach, inform, and empower.
Our activities are regular and predictable. We communicate changes promptly.
No amateur shall be responsible for any transfer of professional health knowledge.
Our ideas are innovative and responsive to new community health challenges.
We actively build partnerships with stakeholders who share our vision.
We believe teamwork takes us faster to realising our goals.
We are conscious of diversity in opinions and approaches, and we respect it.
Three interconnected programmes working together to improve health knowledge, access, and outcomes for vulnerable, rural, and underserved communities across Cameroon.
A community-driven health education platform delivering accurate, relatable health information in Pidgin English. We tackle health misinformation at its root using the language people actually speak to improve health-seeking behaviour and reduce preventable illness.
Regular posts on priority health topics in Pidgin English accurate, relatable, and accessible to everyone regardless of education level.
Weekly health education live on Eden Radio Limbe 98.1 FM every Saturday, 3:00pm to 4:00pm reaching communities across Cameroon.
Direct community health education talks integrated with field outreach activities, meeting people where they are.
Our flagship community outreach project, delivered in partnership with Fako America Youths, addresses maternal health outcomes for less-privileged pregnant women in the Limbe subdivision.
CHA actively pursues research collaborations and grant funding to expand our programmes, with a focus on maternal and child health, community health worker systems, and health education innovation.
Building on our Maternal Health Project, we pursue scalable models for preventive care, antenatal coverage, and nutritional support for vulnerable mothers.
Strengthening community-based health delivery through training, supervision, and integration of CHWs into the formal health system.
Leveraging KwataStyleMedicine and radio platforms to test innovative approaches to health communication in low-resource settings.
CHA is led by a board of medical doctors and health professionals committed to community-led health improvement across Cameroon.
Leads CHA’s overall vision, governance, partnerships and fundraising, and champions the association’s community health mission across Cameroon.
More about +Dr. Wilfred Azua Ekokobe is a medical doctor and public health professional with over nine years of humanitarian health leadership in Cameroon’s North West Region, where he manages large-scale health, nutrition and emergency programmes with an international medical organisation. He studied public health at the University of Manchester as a Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholar, and is a 2024 Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity at George Washington University. He is the founder of KwataStyleMedicine, CHA’s flagship Pidgin-language health education series, and leads a private healthcare clinic in Limbe. He works in both English and French.
Supports the President in steering CHA’s clinical direction, community programmes and partnerships across the South West.
More about +Medical doctor and founder of Community Health Services Clinic, Limbe, home to the city’s only 24-hour emergency obstetric ultrasonography service, which has served over 9,000 pregnant women. Head of the Cholera Management Unit at Bota District Hospital and recipient of the Cameroon Red Cross Best Humanitarian Award 2022.
Provides strategic direction and technical oversight across CHA’s programmes, partnerships and quality standards.
More about +MD, MSc, MBA, DTMH, PMD Pro. Dr. Lemonge Norbert is a physician and global health enthusiast with over nine years of hands-on leadership across the health sector in Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and DRC. Having grown up in communities with limited healthcare, he is passionate about reaching communities at the last mile by leveraging digital solutions. He embeds within national health programmes to guide prevention strategy and turn health data into decisions that reach the people who need them most. A bilingual English-French communicator, he translates complex programme data for donors, ministries and communities alike, and brings this same evidence-first, last-mile approach to CHA’s strategy and technical direction.
Programme design and implementation lead, bringing operational expertise to CHA's community outreach activities.
Leading CHA's communications strategy, partnerships outreach, and digital presence including KwataStyleMedicine.
Provides legal counsel and governance support to the association.
Key moments, milestones, and achievements from CHA's work to improve community health in Cameroon.
KwataStyleMedicine is now live every Saturday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm on Eden Radio Limbe 98.1 FM bringing health education in Pidgin to homes and communities across Cameroon.
Our flagship health education platform on Facebook surpassed 1,000 followers a milestone reflecting the community's trust in accessible, Pidgin-language health information.
CHA partnered with Fako America Youths to deliver antenatal care, health talks, and clinical services to pregnant women in the Limbe subdivision anchored on the principle that every woman deserves a healthy pregnancy.
Community Health Association received official acknowledgement from the Senior Divisional Officer for Fako Division, formally establishing CHA as a legal association under Cameroon law.
Five medical professionals and health advocates gathered in Limbe on 24 December 2021 to formally constitute Community Health Association, electing the Executive Bureau and adopting the founding constitution.
Whether you want to partner, volunteer, join our membership, or simply learn more — we would love to hear from you.
Fako Division, South West Region, Cameroon
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Ref. No. 920/G37/VOL.1/SAAJP · 10 August 2022 · Fako, SW Region
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