Photo Journal: Healthcare in Ethiopia


Jun 17th, 2009 4:05 PM EST
By Morgana Wingard

Morgana Wingard is traveling with a delegation right now through Ethiopia as part of ONE’s learning/listening trip through Africa. Check out some of her photos and writings below:

Health Post
Health extension workers test local villagers for malaria at this station. They typically see 5-6 cases a week except in outbreaks when they can see around 30 each day. Malaria nets are purchased by UNICEF with funds from USAID, the World Bank, and the PMI initiative and distributed through posts like these.

Rapid Malaria Tests
Rapid malaria tests performed by health extension workers at the Adama Health Post. Rory from UNICEF holds them up to display to advance team. National health system clinic partially funded by PMI through USAID.

Rapid Malaria Tests
Rapid malaria tests performed by health extension workers at the Adama Health Post. Rory from UNICEF holds them up to display to advance team. National health system clinic partially funded by PMI through USAID.

USAID funded internal residual spraying (IRS)
USAID funded internal residual spraying with DDT to prevent malaria.

Nazrat Clinical Training Center for Malaria
Mosquitos and larvae for testing purposes. The larvae are 25th generation mosquitos who have never been exposed to pesticides.

Ethiopian Health Extension Worker
Health extension worker at the Adama health post. There are 15,000 villages in Ethiopia. Two women from each village were selected to become health extension workers after year long training. The program is intended to extend primary health care servides and education throughout Ethiopia. There are now 30,000 health extension workers in Ethiopia. Part of the program is paid for by the gov’t. Other contributers include Gates Foundation, PEPFAR, PMI, and the Global Fund.

TAGS: Ethiopia, ONEREDTrip, ONEREDTripDay1

 

  1. deborah karrsays: Jun 19th, 2009 6:07 PM EST

    June 19, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    How exciting to see the progress in Africa. rapid tests for malaria. I wish I was with my friends in Tinderet, Kenya working on such a project and making a difference, showing my support and loving the people of Kenya.

  2. Carolyn Milessays: Jun 21st, 2009 7:14 PM EST

    June 21, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    Thanks for these daily posts from the ONE trip to Africa – glad you highlighted the important role of the community health worker. If we are to reduce the number of under 5 child deaths globally, we need to bring health care closer to the community and beyond the clinic walls to children at home. These women and others like them all around the globe are doing just that and saving young lives. Having just met some of these amazing women this spring n both Guatemala and Nepal working on some programs with Save the Children, I can tell you they are the heros and they are really saving kids lives. Great pics too.

    Carolyn Miles, COO Save the Children.

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