Global Health

WiRED International Accelerates Release of New Programs

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By Allison Kozicharow; Edited by Elizabeth Fine

Introduction

Though not halfway through 2025, WiRED International is rapidly launching new programs, IT distribution innovations and health education modules. The urgency is critical to address the significant healthcare professional shortage in low-resource countries — a situation made much worse by the U.S. Trump administration’s withdrawal of humanitarian aid.

WiRED’s efforts to ease the global health burden center around training community health workers (CHWs) who provide clinical services, conduct community-wide health education and act as bridges between their communities and professional medical services. As vaccines and medicines run out, trained CHWs can offer care and comfort to their populations during the current world crisis.

What follows is a summary of a few of WiRED’s recent programs, training materials and activities.

Health Module Access Program App

WiRED began the year with our breakthrough new HealthMAP phone app release. HealthMAP is an exclusive mobile phone app that allows CHWs anywhere — trained by WiRED or other programs — to access hundreds of health training modules, download and study them offline. The app is now available for both Android users and Apple users.

When ARVs Are Gone

In reaction to the abrupt elimination of USAID, WiRED has created a three-part module series to urgently address the skills CHWs need to assist people living with HIV/AIDS, who face a grim future without antiretrovirals (ARVs).

The training is divided into three modules under the banner of “When ARVs are Gone”:

  1. HIV/AIDS Symptoms Management (released on March 8 — see story here)
  2. Providing Mental Health Support for People Living with HIV (released April 28 — see story here)
  3. Palliative Care for HIV/AIDS sufferers (coming soon!)

WiRED’s CHW Training Program Curriculum
  • World Health Organization compliant
  • Evidence-based, peer-reviewed, developed by doctors and nurses
  • Presented in interactive training modules
  • Instantly downloadable to phones/tablets for offline study
  • Taught by local instructors
  • Completion certificates available after successful qualifying examination
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) program required for all CHWs to maintain certification
  • All material offered without cost and registration
  • More details in journal article in Frontiers in Public Health, found here

We invite all CHWs, regardless of where they were trained, to join our free CME Tracker program. Through WiRED’s HealthMAP app (Android users; Apple users), they can access dozens of infectious disease modules and hundreds of other educational modules to fulfill their annual CME requirements. All modules are available without cost for offline study; as with all WiRED CHW training programs, the CME Tracker is entirely free.

Web Posting Examples from WiRED

So far this year, WiRED has posted many stories. Reread a few of them!

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