Lifesaving Care Delivered in the Community For more than 20 years, we have worked to reduce the global burden of HIV by testing people for HIV, supporting people on treatment, circumcising males to reduce their chance of getting HIV and offering oral pre-exposure prophylaxis to people at risk. With an estimated 39 million people living
When Ruth was pregnant with Naomi, her second child, she thought she knew what pregnancy and childbirth would be like. But she didn’t anticipate lifelong friends and care that empowered her and her husband to take charge of their family’s health!
Community health workers are at the frontline, bringing health services that otherwise would be inaccessible in villages and rural areas. They intimately understand the communities they serve and are instrumental in improving access to—and demand for—basic health services, including malaria prevention as part of comprehensive maternal and child health services for the pregnant women, who are among the most vulnerable to malaria.
