Malaria https://www.capacityplus.org/taxonomy/term/545/all en Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress https://www.capacityplus.org/your-voice-frontline-health-workers-are-unsung-heroes-of-global-health-progress <p><em>This </em><a href="http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/maternal-child-health/your-voice-frontline-health-workers-are-unsung?utm_content=buffer3d380&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer"><em>post </em></a><em>originally appeared on USAID</em><em>’s</em><em>&nbsp;</em><em><a href="http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines">FrontLines</a>.&nbsp;</em><i>Your Voice, a continuing FrontLines feature, offers personal observations from USAID staff and development voices. Chris Thomas is a communications adviser in the Bureau for Global Health.</i><br /><br />With her 3-month-old son, John, lethargic, feverish and vomiting, Korto Kinne sought help in the remote Sinje resettlers camp in the northwestern corner of Liberia. Musu Kpakar, a community health worker, administers a rapid finger-stick test to see if malaria parasites are present in John’s blood.</p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-authoring-information"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Author&#039;s name:&nbsp;</div> Chris Thomas, guest blogger </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-date field-field-publication-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Publication Date:&nbsp;</div> <span class="date-display-single">June 2014</span> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p><a href="https://www.capacityplus.org/your-voice-frontline-health-workers-are-unsung-heroes-of-global-health-progress" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.capacityplus.org/your-voice-frontline-health-workers-are-unsung-heroes-of-global-health-progress#comments Chris Thomas Frontline Health Workers Liberia Malaria Nepal USAID Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:45:38 +0000 Carol Bales 1256 at https://www.capacityplus.org