COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1666667
Partnership for health promotion as a platform to improve public health outcomes in small island developing states: A case study of the Comoros
Provisionally accepted
- 1World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2WHO, Bangui, Central African Republic
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In the Comoros, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a partnership with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) aimed at improving health outcomes of target population. Health improvements were associated with increased service reach and selected observed changes in service indicators, reaching over 30,000 individuals(1), including women and children in underserved areas. Specific outcomes include strengthened access to selected maternal, neonatal and child health services; expanded community outreach and early detection activities relevant to noncommunicable conditions, such as oral health, women's cancers, hypertension, diabetes, hepatitis). The collaborative approach also strengthened the capacity of CSOs to deliver health services. The WHO-CSO partnership in the Comoros demonstrates the potential of strategic collaborations to enhance health outcomes in resource-limited settings. The findings support the scalability of such initiatives across similar contexts in Africa and other small island developing states (SIDS).
Keywords: Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Small island developing states (SIDS), Community-based health interventions, Health Promotion, Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Comoros
Received: 15 Jul 2025; Accepted: 17 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Luciani, Abega, Diarra, Drameh and Moeti. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Andrea Luciani, luciania@who.int
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