PATH Program

Primary Health Care

With help from a broad range of global and local partners, PATH works with national and subnational governments to reimagine primary health care (PHC) through a multi-disciplinary, person-centered approach that improves health and well-being for all people.

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All people should have access to the essential health services they need—and when and where they need them.

Recognizing PHC as the critical pathway to achieving universal health coverage, PATH created its Primary Health Care program to accelerate the development of multi-disciplinary, high-performing primary health care services. Strong PHC is not only essential to accelerating progress toward health for all, it is also the world’s first and best line of defense against health threats, like COVID-19, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has hindered global health progress, magnified barriers to essential health services, and deepened health inequities, it’s also created a once in a lifetime opportunity to advance a truly impactful approach to primary health care. The time to act is now.

Our Objectives

Advancing tailored PHC services that meet individual and community needs
Catalyzing optimally resourced PHC systems
Strengthening PHC system capacity to resiliently respond to health threats

Featured Resources

Dec. 13, 2022
People-centered primary health care for all
Centering people in primary health care
PHC Policy Tracker
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  1. Biosamples are transported by a mobile unit to ensure timely diagnostics. Photo credit: Galyna Gorenko.
    March 24, 2023

    TB prevention and treatment in Ukraine: Keeping momentum through conflict

    PATH implements innovative tuberculosis (TB) prevention, diagnosis, and care while responding to the pressing needs of humanitarian response.
  2. Senegal street scene
    October 24, 2022

    20+ years advancing health equity in Senegal

    Celebrating more than two decades of impactful partnership between PATH and the Ministry of Health.
  3. John Zgambo, an Innovation and Design Lead with PATH's Living Labs, gives a presentation on new solutions under development.
    October 12, 2022

    Immunization insights at the push of a button

    Intuitive new tool from PATH Living Labs provides impactful insights and boosts morale for immunization workers.
  4. A view of the flags outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Photo: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas.
    September 8, 2022

    PATH at the 77th UN General Assembly: applying COVID-19 lessons to strengthen health equity and security

    As the world continues to respond to and build back from COVID-19, PATH joins world leaders in New York at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly to reflect on pandemic response to date and commit to building back and building better health systems to withstand future health crises.
  5. Health workers present new solutions to health officials at a PATH Living Labs exhibition in Nairobi.
    June 29, 2022

    Improving immunization through human-centered design

    PATH’s Oyugi Allela highlights two recent immunization solutions and how her team helped co-create them with Kenyan health workers.
  6. Self testing for HIV.jpg
    May 26, 2022

    Democratizing health care through self-testing

    PATH has taken an active role in developing, introducing, and scaling self-testing in low- and middle-income countries.
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