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The Community Health Workers: Meet the Kenyan Women on the Front Lines of Disease Prevention

The Community Health Workers: Meet the Kenyan Women on the Front Lines of Disease Prevention

The women ranged in age from twenty to fifty, each sat quietly and attentively, their hands clasped in their laps as their children play outside the building. On the chalkboard was a series of lists that kept track of the number of pregnancies, cases of HIV, quality of housing and disease risk factors and various other aspects of health. These are the community health workers, and they have been on the front line of infectious disease monitoring and prevention.