Local Health Care Workers in Ethiopia:
- Widespread poor health, low life expectancy, high infant mortality rate, poor sanitation/nutrition, lots of infectious disease, 3 doctors per 100,000 people
- The government recieves foreign aid to improve health. Some of this money is spent on preventative health care (e.g. mosquito nets)
- Foreign aid funds the Health Extension Programme, which trains local health care workers in rural areas to deliver basic health care.
Preventing Cervial Cancer in England:
- Nearly 3,000 women diagnosed each year.
- Some forms are preventable with the HPV vaccine, which is now offered to all girls aged 12-13.
- Cervical screening is offered to all women over 25, and death rates have decreased by 70% since screening began.
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