Malaria kills more than 1,500 people in Ethiopia every year. Now a new drug is improving survival rates – and is easy to administer at local village health posts
In her 12-square-metre outpost in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, Nure Kieltaji represents the frontline in the fight against malaria. She works as a community health worker, one of two people offering basic primary healthcare to more than 1,000 people in her village Dembel Dildila.
Nure spends a lot of her time on malaria prevention, travelling between homes to educate people on the use of insecticide-treated nets and point out potential breeding sites for mosquitoes – mostly pots of stagnant water and discarded plastic bags.
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