OUR MISSION
Muso works to create a cure for delay because no one should die waiting for health care.
OUR STORY
STARTED IN MALI.
More than a decade ago, a small group of Malians and Americans came together to address the injustices of health and poverty they witnessed around them.
Our founders knew that the majority of deaths in the world’s poorest communities are due to curable diseases not treated in time. In the shadow of Mali’s capital, they witnessed neighbors struggle and often fail to access a health care system designed to exclude them, simply because they were poor. Patients got care too late, or not at all. Muso was born from the question: what would happen if we designed a different kind of health care? What if we could create a health system that functioned alongside patients, that reached and treated every patient early, in the first moments of their illness?
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To end the child and maternal mortality crises and deliver universal health coverage at scale, Muso collaborates with policymakers and implementers to design, test, and scale evidence-based health systems that deliver care with speed: to all patients who need it, when they need it.
Muso means woman in Bambara, a lingua franca of Mali.
WE WORK
In Mali since 2008 with a national technical assistance partnership and ten operational sites:
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8 rural sites serving 159,000 people (Bankass)
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2 peri-urban sites serving 294,000 people (Yirimadio, Bamako)
In Côte d’Ivoire since 2019 with a national technical assistance partnership and twenty five operational sites:
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24 sites serving 99,000 people (Madinani)
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1 rural pilot site serving 8,000 people (Adzopé)
OUR VALUES
Justice
Justice guided us to turn down a large amount of funding that was offered to Muso at the beginning, which would have forced us to charge fees to all our patients. According to the evidence, and from the perspectives of our patients, this would delay and block access, especially for our patients who face poverty. Guided by justice and the right to early care for our patients, we have made the decision to offer care free of charge.
Solidarity
When the armed conflict arrived in Bankass, our team made the decision to continue our care. Our brave teammates continue to serve in the conflict zone in solidarity with our community partners to this day. I have also witnessed many instances that our team has demonstrated this value internally, helping teammates in times of difficulty and illness, giving their time, moral support, and even their blood for their colleagues.
Impact
Impact guides us to pursue rigorous research studies to test our hypotheses, to learn, to hold ourselves accountable to the communities we serve, and to support the improvement of national health systems. These studies have documented reductions in child mortality that are, to our knowledge, unprecedented.
Communities
Communities have guided our approach since the early days. We initially thought about launching a malaria prevention and treatment program. But listening and learning from community members and patients, we understood that this was not their priority. They articulated the need for access to rapid care for any illness. Our community partners reframed the problem and guided us toward the solution.
2024 - 2028
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