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An “army” of teenage
girls are transforming heath care in rural Africa.
We follow teenage health worker Ajebush in Ethiopia,
to find out what difference she is making to the
community and how her own life has changed. Four
times a month, 18 year-old Ajebush starts her day
with a two-hour walk from the village of Timbicho in
southern Ethiopia to pick up her supply of vaccines.
She then walks two hours back to the village health
post where she injects the local babies. Three days
a month she walks on for a further 30 minutes to an
even more remote community where the mothers are
waiting in the shade of a big tree to have their
young children immunized as well. Before the health
post was established at Timbicho, and before Ajebush
started her work, the nearest medical help was at
least two hours away.
Part of a 28 x 25-minute documentary series produced for the BBC. These films can be bought individually or as a series. |
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HIV: The Race
for a Vaccine,
Ref 671 |
A Woman's
Disease,
Ref 670 |
Tanzania: The Malaria Vaccine,
Ref 669 |
Vietnam: The Deadly Trematodes,
Ref 668 |
The New Weapon Against Malaria,
Ref
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The Vaccine of Hope,
Ref 666 |
The Deadly Sleep,
Ref:
665 |
Nigeria: Malaria - Fighting Back,
Ref:
664 |
Australia: The Mystery Ulcers,
Ref:
663 |
Haiti: Fighting Syphilis,
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