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Notes from the Field: The Importance of Health Extension Workers in Diagnosing and Treating Malaria in Ethiopia

July 3, 2014 By Luwei Pearson Leave a Comment

Since 2010, nearly 30,000 health extension workers (HEWs) in Ethiopia have been trained and supported to provide integrated community based case management (iCCM) of malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and severe malnutrition. Although HEWs started treating malaria before 2010, diagnostic based treatment of malaria using multiple species RDT was scaled up as part of the iCCM programme. … [Read more...]

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