Making community health workers part of the public health solution

"Children used to die a lot. All the time we were burying them," says Nakigude Ruth, a mother who lost her three year old son while trying to get to the health facility as quickly as possible. There are countless stories like Ruth's in Uganda, where distance and lack of money mean young children die from treatable illnesses such as diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria. 

Country: Uganda

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