By Dick McCreight | Secretary, HWHL
Community Health Workers at Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia visit 37 villages around Kakata where they provide health education, worm medications, prenatal vitamins, blood pressure checks and medical supplies.
Soil-transmitted helminth infection (parasitic worms) thrive in the warmer climates of the earth. Unfortunately, these are the areas of most of the world’s poverty. This poverty is accentuated by the presence of worms that cause the depletion of already scarce nutrients in the body. Worms enter the body in various ways. Hookworm larvae (immature worms) mature into a form that can penetrate the skin of humans. Hookworm infection is transmitted primarily by walking barefoot on contaminated soil. Flip-flops are a simple and effective means of combating the transmission of hookworm.
Many challenges faced by HWHL's Community Health Workers. Dr. Hena sent these photos of a bridge our CHWs crossed recently to get to a village. She writes, "Imagine this during the rainy season and having to carry a pregnant woman in labor over this!"
We are so thankful for these men and women who have dedicated their lives to help our friends in these resource-limited villages.
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