Sep 20 2012
In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Laura Newman, a senior communications officer of the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa, examines the role of community health workers in "Zambia's three-step plan to establish large malaria-free zones in the country by 2015." She notes "all three steps rely heavily on Zambia's network of community health workers -- the backbone of Zambia's rural health system" -- and she details these steps (9/18).
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