Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) in central India are crucial to the vaccination system, providing essential health services despite challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted their importance in achieving high vaccination rates. From Gavi and VaccinesWork.
After more than a quarter century, Samanthi Priyangika Dias still finds her work “fascinating”. She also wishes the contributions of public health midwives were better valued.
A dedicated ASHA worker shares her journey of providing essential healthcare services, donating blood, and advocating for better wages and job security for her fellow workers.
Health workers used to struggle to reach the more than 8,700 eligible kids of Lindi Ward, in Nairobi’s massive Kibra slum, with vaccines. Not anymore. From VaccinesWork
Ngonidzashe Muyambo, a dedicated community health worker in Zimbabwe, offers compassionate care and support to home-based patients, overcoming obstacles to make a meaningful impact on the lives she touches.