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 158,125people (Bankass)
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2 peri-urban sites serving 326,834 people (Yirimadio, Bamako)
In Côte d’Ivoire since 2019 with a national technical assistance partnership and twenty five operational sites:
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28 sites serving 105,763 people (Madinani)
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1 rural pilot site serving 8,496 people (Adzopé)
OUR VALUES
Justice
Too often, healthcare makes sick people poor and poor people sick. This is wrong. Muso exists to make healthcare an instrument of justice — because all people deserve the right care at the right time
Solidarity
Injustice in health care demands collective action. We co-create solutions with communities as partners, grounded in mutual trust and shared accountability
Impact
Muso uses research to hold ourselves accountable to those we serve, to learn and improve our impact, and to drive evidence-based national healthcare reform
Communities
Muso was cofounded with leaders of the communities we serve. From day one, patients have been our professors —teaching us about the injustices of status-quo healthcare and showing us what healthcare of the future can look like
2026 - 2030
STRATEGIC
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