This post originally appeared on USAID’s FrontLines. 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.
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. Read more »