Mothers at the Kabuga Health Centre in Gasabo district of Kigali. Community-based health programme covers 90 per cent of Rwandans. PHOTO | BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
For her effort in ensuring expectant mothers in Tigray, Ethiopia deliver in health facilities, access contraceptives, and that children get vaccinated on time, Senait Fiseha Alemu is known by the moniker, “doctor.”
But Ms Alemu, who sometimes walks for close to two hours—or even 20 kilometres—to reach a single family, is not a doctor.
