A nurse’s callousness motivated Emmah Kariuki to pursue a compassionate, intrepid style of nursing that has earned her recognition as one of 13 “Heroines of Health” at this year’s World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva.
Health extension workers like Abraha and Girmay are part of the Ethiopian government’s flagship National Health Extension Program that is committed to bringing essential health care services to communities throughout the country.
Unitaid invests $50 million in an innovative project to ensure that pregnant women in malaria-affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa have expanded access to a preventive therapy for malaria.