摘要：During the past two decades, access to primary health care has been dramati- cally improved in Ethiopia as a result of a national health extension programme. More than 40 000 community health extension workers have been trained to deliver preventive and basic curative interventions in villages across the na- tion. 1 The health extension workers are trained for a year, then employed by the government to deliver 16 interventions targeted at maternal and child health, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malaria, sexually transmit- ted infections, sanitation and hygiene at household level and in the community.
