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When Ikhlas was a young girl in El Fasher, North Darfur, her life took a tragic turn when she contracted polio. The disease has been nearly eradicated worldwide following the advent of safe and effective childhood vaccinations, but in a few pockets of the world, poor access to health care means that children become disabled or die from preventable causes.
Throughout her life, Ikhlas has battled others’ misguided perceptions that because she is disabled, she is unable to hold a normal job or do anything of value.
In 2010, Ikhlas began working with USAID partner Millennium Relief and Development Services/Partner Aid International (MRDS/PAI) in North Darfur as the supervisor of rural clinics. Ikhlas’ first assignment was to help start a new clinic in Grawid Besham, a village with no health care services within 20 kilometers. Ikhlas organized a village health committee to oversee the work of the clinic, involving all relevant government organizations.
Ikhlas spent several months traveling to rugged rural areas, working with the community to remodel the clinic and to build residential facilities. After months of hard work mobilizing the community and government agencies into action, the clinic opened in 2010 and the community celebrated the arrival of health care services to the village.
With USAID support, the clinic in Grawid Besham is providing health care for up to 8,000 rural Darfuris. Ikhlas is now helping to prevent other children from contracting a disease that has created so many challenges in her own life. Grawid Besham is the first of four clinics that Ikhlas has helped USAID and its partners open in the area.
“I am really fortunate to show that I am able to work in spite of my disability,” Ikhlas said. “The stigma is still very high in people thinking disabled people can’t do anything. So I thank God, my family—for giving me permission to work outside of town—and I thank my employers for not seeing only the outside and my inability but encouraging me to show my abilities. To me, this is real partnership and it has changed my life and I hope the lives of many others not only in health care but also in their attitude towards other people living with disabilities.”
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Women wait by their sick babies while they receive treatment, in the municipal hospital of M'banza Congo, Zaíre province. Pregnant women and children under age 5 in Angola are among the groups most vulnerable to the scourge of malaria. USAID with the President's Malaria Initiative provides mosquito bed nets, anti-malarial drugs, presumptive treatment for pregnant women, and training and capacity building for better malaria diagnosis and treatment - key preventative and treatment measures to reduce both the incidence and deadly impact of the disease.
Photo credit: Alison Bird/USAID.
Senator Harold Kipchumba, a polio survivor, gives the polio vaccine to a child and reflects on his experience. "Just two drops. This is what I didn't have. "
600,000 doses of polio vaccine have been obtained and through AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance program, APHIA, USAID will support community mobilization efforts to ensure that parents bring their children to receive this life saving vaccine.
Photo credits: UNICEF ESARO 2013.
A child opens her mouth to receive drops of polio vaccine during the national launch of the polio vaccine campaign in Mombasa County.
600,000 doses of polio vaccine have been obtained and through AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance program, APHIA, USAID will support community mobilization efforts to ensure that parents bring their children to receive this life saving vaccine.
Photo credits: UNICEF ESARO 2013.
As part of a USAID-supported polio initiative, a vaccinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) administers the oral polio vaccine March 23 in the Commune of Ndjili, Kinshasa. On that day, Minister of Health, Victor Makwenge Kaput officially launched a vaccination campaign against the wild polio virus in the capital city.
Photo Credit: USAID/A. Mukeba
Community Health Workers in Ethiopia provide a valuable lifeline to individuals who face long distances, prohibitive expenses, and other barriers to accessing health care. USAID supports the training and development of Community Health Workers in Ethiopia as a reliable and cost-effective way to offer basic health services to large, low-income, and spread-out communities. The Health Workers are able to diagnose and treat malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory illnesses as well as provide preventative care such as vaccinations and nutritional counseling. Photo credit: Nena Terrell/USAID.
USAID programs expand access to malaria testing and treatment in rural areas in Guinea. Photo Credit: USAID/Faisons Ensemble
A nurse in a local clinic in Huambo Province, Angola, checks a patient and her baby before prescribing anti-malarial drugs. Photo Credit: USAID/Alison Bird.
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