We provide Community Health Worker Training and Continuing Medical Education without cost to all low-income communities
How we use our funds:
95%
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0%
on Fundraising
5%
on Management &
General Admin

WiRED News
When Vaccines Are Gone
Recently, we reported on WiRED International’s efforts to equip community health workers (CHWs) to support HIV/AIDS patients deprived of antiretrovirals (ARVs) due to abrupt U.S. government funding cuts to USAID.
Funding Cuts Threaten the Fulbright Program
WiRED International’s origins are deeply linked to the prestigious Fulbright Program, which has facilitated scholarly exchanges between the United States and 160 countries for nearly 80 years. The Fulbright Program
WiRED Initiates Community Health Worker Outcome Reports
WiRED International is continually expanding our Community Health Worker (CHW) programs in low-resource regions. In 2020 we trained our pilot CHW team in Kisumu, Kenya just prior to the onset of
WiRED Releases Urgent Module to Help People with HIV/AIDS
WiRED International has just launched an urgent module titled When ARVs Are Gone: HIV/AIDS Symptoms Management. This training equips community health workers (CHWs) with the tools they need to address

The Community Health Worker
(CHW) 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 and CME module selection
- Completion certificates available after successful qualifying examination
- Continuing Medical Education (CME) program required for all CHWs to maintain certification
- All material is offered without cost and registration


The Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program
- Offers 400+ modules on medical, health and community preparedness
- Modules downloadable
- Urgent training modules posted for emerging infectious diseases
- Online CME Tracker allows CHWs to maintain credits
- Open to WiRED-trained CHWs and to all other CHWs, without cost
CHW Training Details
for Community Leaders, NGOs, Ministries of Health and
Other Organizers in Low-Income Regions

The CHW Story
Since the start of the pandemic five years ago, a dedicated team of 20 community health workers (CHWs) has served the most vulnerable communities in Western Kenya. The informal settlements where they work present incredibly challenging living conditions: inadequate sanitation, lack of running water, and limited access to electricity. Residents cook over charcoal fires and live in densely packed, ramshackle huts constructed from scrap wood and tin, held together with tenpenny nails. This impoverished environment fosters severe health challenges. -more-

WiRED’s Community Health Worker Training
After several years of field testing, WiRED International has released a cost-free, expertly designed program to train CHW paraprofessionals, aiming to boost their positive impact on community health in low-resource settings. Leveraging nearly two decades of experience delivering health education in underserved environments, WiRED has tailored this CHW training program for individuals in regions where access to medical care, communication, and technical resources is severely limited. -more-

Saving CHW Deployment Costs
While WiRED’s CHW curriculum and CME are free, communities are often reluctant to establish CHW programs due to the recurring costs of deployment: management, CHW stipends, supplies, and other operational expenses. WiRED provides the educational elements of a CHW program but cannot fund deployment, which is the responsibility of each community. Recognizing that operational costs can discourage CHW programs in low-income communities, WiRED has developed several strategies to make deployment more budget-friendly. -more-
WiRED, started in 1997

1997
WiRED launches work
in Croatia
In 1997, WiRED opened its first computer facilities in war-torn Vukovar, Croatia. Our work then continued throughout all the countries in the former-Yugoslavia.

2003
Expands work in Kenya, Central America, Iraq and more
WiRED received National Institutes of Health and State Department Funding for projects in Africa and Iraq.

2009
UC Berkeley awards WiRED “Health Hero”
Expanded programs in Central America, Africa and plans for 2010 work in Eurasia.

2019
Begins development of
CHW Training
Continues wide range of innovative CHW training programs on several continents. Begins One Health program.

2025
Expands CHW Training and launches CME program
Building on success, we expanded out CHW training program. Launched HealthMAP to deliver training modules globally.
Webstories from the past 25 years
Personal stories about WiRED’s key projects

Health Learning Center
400+ Health Training Modules
Free access to all of WiRED Health Training Modules
online or through HealthMAP
For Community Health Workers
Set up an account on HealthMAP for free Continuing Medical Education program

WiRED creates and releases modules designed to benefit public health and to reflect a full scope and depth of coverage of key health topics. We upgrade modules as needed to keep pace with medical advances. New module topics are often suggested by doctors and other health professionals to be of concern within the low-service communities they serve.
WiRED’s special series allow users to gain comprehensive knowledge on a given subject. Our series include packages on Mother and Child Health, Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes, Echocardiology and more. Also, we bundle modules into series in foreign languages such as Spanish and Armenian.


Our e-library allows physicians and nurses, community health workers and general audiences to address the prevention and treatment of both infectious and noncommunicable diseases in underserved regions. WiRED’s 400+ health modules are available free of charge by anyone anywhere for copying and download onto computers, flash drives and other portable storage media.
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WiRED International Director Reports on Recent Visit to Kenya

WiRED Community Health Workers Continuing Vital Health Work in Kenya

WiRED International Celebrates 12 Years of Fruitful Partnerships in Armenia

When Vaccines Are Gone

Cholera Deaths Climb Globally

October Report from WiRED Community Health Workers in Western Kenya

Community Health Worker Online Education Begins in Armenia

November Report from WiRED Community Health Workers in Western Kenya

WiRED International Wraps Up Our 27th Year

Dangers of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

Kansas Tackling Record Tuberculosis Outbreak

Monthly Update from WiRED’s Community Health Workers in Kenya

Reminder: Please Support the Sister Bernadette Sunshine-Mitzvah Fund for the Holidays

An Overview of WiRED’s Community Health Worker Program

July Report from Community Health Workers in Kenya

WiRED Mourns the Loss of Robert A. Corrigan

August Report from Community Health Workers in Kenya

WiRED International Releases Module on Avian Flu

WiRED Releases Urgent Module to Help People with HIV/AIDS

WiRED International Releases Breakthrough Phone App

WiRED International Releases New Module on Rabies

Global Supply of Cholera Vaccine Critically Low

Menstrual Hygiene Management Project in Kisumu, Kenya

Water Purification in Times of Climate Change

New Year Begins for WiRED Community Health Workers

Lecture Series Promoting Health Awareness in Armenia Concludes

Another Year of Providing Vital Health and Clinical Services

WiRED Releases Lassa Fever Module

Funding Cuts Threaten the Fulbright Program

WiRED Initiates Community Health Worker Outcome Reports

Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives!

Happy Holidays from WiRED International!

Olivia Spirito Joins WiRED’s Advisory Board

Update on Health Screening Clinics in Kenya

WiRED International Needs Your Support for 2025

Dr. Elaine Musselman Joins WiRED’s Advisory Board

Please Support the Sister Bernadette Sunshine-Mitzvah Fund!

Spotlight on Community Health Worker Joseph Ochieng

Alarming Global Rise in Diabetes in Recent Decades

WiRED’s Foundational VALUES

We provide Community Health Worker training and Continuing Medical Education without cost to all low-income communities. Volunteer hours and monetary donations make a huge difference in our capacity to provide health education in low resource regions. WiRED is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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Recipient of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health 2009 Organizational Public Health Hero Award. Read more >
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