An Interview with Dr. Tedros Adhanom

Monday, 11 October 2010 20:12

An Interview with H.E. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Minister, Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

To date, our flagship Health Extension Programme (HEP) - a government-led, country-wide and community-based effort - has trained and deployed over 34,000 Health Extension Workers (HEWs) throughout the country – two for each village. Most HEWs are by design, locally recruited young women – high school graduates with a year of intensive training on the delivery of a package of primary health care services comprising, health promotion and disease prevention interventions.

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/files/transcript.pdf

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