On the Frontline

摘要

On a dusty, shaded bench outside the Ramada Health Post in southern Ethiopia, seven women in colorful garb sit with babies in their laps, waiting their turn. When a female worker in jeans and sneakers gently presses a needle into a 1-year-old's thigh, the girl cries softly, but her mother wears a broad smile. She's happy, she explains, because she can now bring her daughter here for vaccinations, or treatment when she's sick.