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Mwai Banda, an 18 year-old woman from Chigodi village in Kasungu District, Malawi has traveled 60 kilometers to be interviewed for a Community Midwife Assistant (CMA) training program. Mwai holds a Malawi School Certificate of Education and has always dreamt of working to improve health in her community. “There are a lot of problems in...
Read moreAlmost exactly two years ago, West Africa came face to face with a dangerous and deadly Ebola outbreak lasting well over one year and killing thousands of people, including the health workers trying to save them. Liberia, a small West African nation situated on the coast is a lively, beautiful, yet poor nation of nearly...
Read moreIn Chibombo District, part of Zambia’s Central Province north of the capital of Lusaka, Josephine Mwita lives in a small mud house a few hundred yards down well-worn dirt paths from the main road with 10 members of her family. Here in this rural area, most people make their living by farming and animal rearing....
Read moreIn Ndola, Zambia on November 4, Patricia Munsanje and six other students huddled together around a dummy practicing cervical suturing. The students and their instructor—an obstetric health professional—bent down to carefully weave the sutures through a foam model meant to simulate a woman’s torn cervix after birth. First they practiced on the foam, and then...
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