Apr 4, 2022
In honor of World Health Worker Week, Last Mile Health spoke with Aaron Kaleso, a community health worker, known locally as health surveillance assistant, who works in the catchment area of Bereu Health Centre in Chikwawa District, Malawi. This conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
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Apr 1, 2022
‘’Community health workers are important because we go to the most remote parts of the village where there is no access to health facilities or where an ambulance cannot reach. Community health workers are the go-to people,’’ says Peter Zeo, a community health worker in Liberia’s remote Rivercess…
Apr 1, 2022
When she was a child in rural Ethiopia, Workinesh Getachew had an experience that would change her life.
“One day, I was called inside my neighbor’s house with my friend. We witnessed a delivery,” Workinesh recalls. Without medical training or the support available at a health facility, the traditional…
