How One Community Brought Child Mortality Down From 154 To 7 Per 1,000 Live Births

Imagine a world in which pregnant women and little kids get regular home visits from a health worker — and free health care.

That’s the ground-breaking approach that’s being adopted in one of the world’s poorest countries: the West African nation of Mali.

And it’s already underway in a pilot program. Nana Kadidia Diawara is one of many community health workers who do daily rounds through the sprawling, dusty streets of Yirimadio, a neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital city of Bamako…..more