What We Do

Primary Health Care | HIV | MDR-TB | Mental Health | Chronic Diseases | CHWs | Women's Rights

Tiyatien Health (TH) strives to bring hope and healing to southeastern Liberia by improving the equitable delivery of comprehensive healthcare services to rural communities through strengthening the public sector.

At the clinical and community level, TH has provided support to the Government of Liberia in the areas of HIV, primary healthcare, including maternal and child health, surgical services, tuberculosis, mental health and chronic disease care since 2006.

Our Approach

Liberia’s story will frequently be retold through the perspective of recognized extraordinary leaders like
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. But Tiyatien Health’s story is about Liberia’s unrecognized people and
their power to accomplish the extraordinary.

As Liberia emerges from war, Liberians widely recognize that civil society and rural non-governmental
organizations will play a key part in rebuilding the nation. At Tiyatien Health, we believe our model
offers a way to reshape Liberia’s response to the crises of poverty, disease and violence.

Read five 5 reasons why below and about the impact of our model here.

Residents of the communities we serve lead our work. Tiyatien Health was co-founded by people like Weafus Quitoe, a former Liberian war refugee with inspiring resolve to transcend violence towards hope and progress. Weafus has made the unlikely transformation from a refugee kerosene peddler into a community health pioneer, establishing Liberia’s largest rural AIDS clinic. TH believes the narratives of people like Weafus are emblematic of the collective post-war feeling of hope riveting Liberia.

Our model is highly participatory. All of TH’s programs are designed, directed by and implemented
by the residents served by those programs. For instance, our groundbreaking programs in HIV and
tuberculosis were designed by patients in the tuberculosis and HIV clinics at Tubman Hospital in
Zwedru. Many of our patients and community members now hold leadership positions within the
organization.

We deploy world-class technical expertise. TH’s Liberia team is supported by an extensive network of
global health experts and practitioners, based at prominent universities such as Harvard and Columbia
University in the United States. Our advisory board is made of some of the world’s most renowned
experts in healthcare delivery in resource-poor settings. This has allowed to TH to evaluate programs,
learn from our challenges, and make operational improvements in real-time. Our network also allows
TH to advocate at a national and global level for policy changes in favor of the poor. For instance, TH
experts served on the core team that wrote successful Global Fund Round 8 HIV application for US$78
million and drafted the National Mental Health Policy.

We work for world-class rural healthcare. We believe health is a human right to be enjoyed by all. We
seek build high-quality care within the public sector in Liberia’s most challenging settings. For instance,
we are the only agency supporting the Ministry of Health in scaling up antiretroviral treatment in
southeastern Liberia – the region with the highest HIV prevalence. We seek to build a health system
that any Liberian, or any person in the world, would be honored to send their children to.

We couple healthcare with poverty reduction. Health cannot be achieved without advancing other
basic rights. We are one of the only agencies to systematically integrate our healthcare services with
broader efforts to achieve social justice, including promoting access to education, employment and
agricultural assistance. TH is one of the largest employers of the poor in Zwedru, providing
over 50 jobs to the destitute sick – as community health workers, coordinators and leaders in our
programs.