Jan 23, 2024
In 2021, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health estimated that nearly 800,000 children across the nation had received zero doses of routine childhood vaccines. Facing a serious risk of illness or death from preventable causes, nearly 90% of these children were concentrated in four regions. In 2023, having identified immunization…
Jan 19, 2024
Serkalem Getachew has spent 13 years working toward a singular goal. “I became a community health worker because I wanted to help women and their children,” she says. “I will be satisfied when I see them satisfied.”
Serkalem delivers care to patients in Legambo District in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region…
Jul 26, 2022
When community health worker Jerome Gardiner was growing up, there was no health clinic nearby. There wasn’t even a midwife, he recalls. For his community and rural communities throughout Liberia, this meant that potentially treatable conditions could become deadly, due to lack of access to basic health services.
Now…
