VIDEO: Health Workers Help Women in Afghanistan Overcome Barriers to Health Care

Note: This was originally posted on Management Sciences for Health's (MSH) blog. World Health Worker Week is April 8-12, 2013. Let’s show the world just how much #HealthWorkersCount. Watch and share the video, thank a health worker, and donate $10 in honor of a health worker.

“We realized that educating the community was something we had to focus on,” says Madina, a trained Afghan midwife, as she describes involving elders and religious leaders in helping to improve access to family planning and perinatal care for women in Khost province, including one woman who came to the health facility suffering complications from a home birth. Watch video. Health workers save lives. What will you do to thank a health worker?