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Child Survival & Ethiopia Edition

In This Issue

Insights from Administrator Rajiv Shah

child survival

Each year the Every ONE Race and the Great Ethiopian Run promote a half-marathon along the Rift Valley’s Lake Awassa. USAID spon

To the Finish Line: Ending Preventable Child Deaths

We are on the front lines of one of the quietest revolutions in human history. It is not marked by upheaval, bloodshed, frantic news coverage or impassioned debate.

Community health worker Rosalina Casimiro meets with children in Nampula province, Mozambique, to demonstrate how to purify wate

Children's Saviors on the Front Lines

Odile Razafinganahary, right, holds one of her 5½ month old twins, Calist, while midwife Agnes Haingo holds Damas. The twins wer

Madagascar: Keeping Mothers Safe to Be Mothers

Esther Ouma with her son, Barrack.

Kenya: Support from Clinic to Hospital to Home

Community health workers provide check-ups for children under the LINCHPIN program.

Zambia: Coordinating Roles and Connecting with Care

Bangladeshi women from Sylhet district serving as LAM (lactational amenorrhea method) ambassadors promote exclusive breastfeedin

Bangladesh: Family Planning for Healthier Futures

Community health worker Rosalina Casimiro, far left, meets with a family in Nampula province, Mozambique, to distribute kits for

Mozambique: Strength in Community Care

Nurse Fernanda Soares examines 5-month-old Miguel da Costa. She correctly diagnosed his pneumonia and very likely saved his life

Timor-Leste: Walking Together on the Long Road to Health

On July 29, 2011, a girl receives a de-worming tablet in the village of Malayley

Vaccines Shot in the Arm to Drought-Distressed Young

Demonstrating the proper use of ITNs in Senegal.

Your Voice: Winning The Battle Against Malaria

A community health volunteer applies chlorhexidine to the umbilical cord of a newborn delivered at home in Banke district.

Image Poster from the USAID/PSI early infant male circumcision (EIMC) campaign in Swaziland.

Infant Circumcision: A Tipping Point for HIV Prevention

Anthony Lake converses with a family outside a health center in Ethiopia in June 2009, before taking up his post with UNICEF, as

Interview with Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF

A young boy accompanies his mother and sibling to a rural clinic in Zimbabwe.

Your Voice: Unfinished Business

A mother with her newborn at a health center for post-partum care.

Caring for Cambodia’s Mothers

Women participate in a community mobilization activity conducted by USAID’s FALAH project.

24 Months for Pakistan’s Health

Early childhood development (ECD) programs provide access to important health services, including lifesaving pediatric HIV/AIDS

Your Voice: Early Action for an HIV-Free Generation?

A young internally displaced girl from Abyan governorate.

Driving over Despair: Mobile Medical Teams Serve Yemenis on the Fringes

ethiopia

Map of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Land of Contrasts, Nation in Transformation

Ethiopia is among the 10 poorest countries in the world but also among its fastest growing economies. These two facts combine to make it a compelling focus for U.S. development assistance.

A beneficiary of the USAID-supported Productive Safety Net Program living near the Mai-Aqui site, in Tigray, Ethiopia, gushes ab

Catching Ethiopians Before They Fall

A mother holds her child at their “model home” in a village outside Enticho Tigray, Ethiopia, served by the Endamariam Health Po

The Female "Army" Leading Ethiopia's Health Revolution

Ethiopian women grab containers with filled with fresh water

Interview with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ethiopia’s Minister of Health

Three young women in Wendo Genet proudly display their land certificates.

A Powerful Piece of Paper

Today USAID loan-guarantee recipient Abebaw Gessese produces over 5 million eggs a year and enough chicken meat to feed 108,000

Putting Local Wealth to Work in Ethiopia

Traditional leaders of Borena, Gabra and Guji clans sit together during ratification ceremony of the Negele Peace Accord, follow

In 2009, the isolated Tabia Debre Abay community built this Alternative Basic Education Center in Tigray, Ethiopia, with USAID s

The Education Alternative

This painted rock was spotted in a district where the residents participate in the Ethiopian Government’s Productive Safety Net

Interview with Thomas Staal, USAID/Ethiopia Mission Director