What a campaign actually changes — and how we know
An outreach campaign is easy to photograph and hard to measure honestly. AFCA reports what it can count, states the limits of what a one-day clinic achieves, and does not inflate either.
Every campaign is closed out with a reconciliation: how many people were registered and seen, what was diagnosed, what was dispensed against prescription, how many referrals were written, and what the campaign cost. Those figures are published here as each campaign is reconciled, not estimated in advance.
The six things we count
Patients registered and seen
Counted at registration and again at consultation, so that turnout and completed consultations are reported separately rather than merged into one flattering number.
Conditions diagnosed
Recorded by category on the consultation record. This is what tells us whether the health profile of a community matches what the district service expected.
Medication dispensed
Reconciled against the opening and closing stock count, so what left the dispensing table matches what was prescribed and what was bought.
Screening performed and yield
Blood pressure, blood sugar and malaria tests carried out, and how many returned a result requiring action. Screening only counts if something follows from it.
Referrals written and completed
The number of patients referred onward, and — where the receiving facility and the patient allow us to check — how many of those referrals were actually attended.
Cost per campaign
Total spend and its breakdown across medication, diagnostics, transport, venue and materials, which is what lets a donor see what their contribution converted into.
Results by campaign
Each completed campaign is added to this table once its figures have been reconciled and checked against the stock count and consultation records.
| Campaign | Region | Patients seen | Referrals | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foumban Noun Division |
West | Being reconciled | Being reconciled | Completed |
Where a figure is not yet published it is because the campaign has not been fully reconciled. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
How a figure gets published
Recorded at source
Registration slips, consultation records and the dispensing log are completed on the day by the person doing the work, not written up afterwards from memory.
Reconciled against stock
Medicines dispensed are checked against opening and closing stock. A discrepancy is investigated before anything is reported.
Reviewed by the campaign lead
The clinician who led the campaign signs off the clinical figures; the coordinator signs off the spend. Both have to agree before the campaign is closed.
Shared with the host authority
The district health service that authorised the campaign receives the same numbers we publish. That is a meaningful check: they can contradict us.
Published here
Figures are added to the table above and, at the end of the year, aggregated into the annual report on the reports page.
What we do not claim
A campaign is not a health system
One or two days of free consultations does not fix the reasons a community was underserved in the first place. We do not describe a campaign as having “solved” anything, and we are wary of language that implies a permanent change we did not make.
We do not count the same person twice
A patient who attends two campaigns is two consultations, not two patients. Where totals are aggregated across campaigns we say plainly that they are consultations rather than unique individuals.
We do not claim outcomes we did not follow
Treating a patient is not the same as curing them. Unless we have confirmation from a receiving facility, a referral is reported as written — not as an outcome achieved.
We do not use patient images as proof
Photographs are taken only with consent and are never presented as evidence of a number. The count comes from the records, not from the crowd in the picture.
The effects we watch for but cannot fully measure
Earlier presentation
Patients who discover at a campaign that a symptom is serious often go to a facility sooner the next time. We hear this from district services, but we do not pretend to have measured it.
Confidence in the health system
A dignified, unhurried consultation at no cost changes how a household regards clinicians in general. That matters for whether they return, and it is genuinely hard to quantify.
Health knowledge that stays behind
Education sessions and printed materials continue working after the team leaves. We count attendance and materials distributed; we cannot count what people did with them.
Read the full reporting, or fund the next set of figures
Our governance, financial approach and published reports sit alongside these results. Both are open to scrutiny, and questions are welcome.