The Carter Center helps to fund water filters, education, medical care and mobilizing community health workers.
Even in the worst conflicts, health workers can often reach a good share of the population.
There was also training of community ophthalmic nurses, village health workers, and traditional birth attendants.
Her comments follow renewed demonstrations against the reforms this weekend by health workers across England.
Health workers in the north-east of England are on strike over changes to their travel costs.
Health workers, civil servants, teachers and representatives of the Fire Service were among those taking part.
Unison, which represents health workers, said it had not been consulted about the proposals.
Certain exceptions were being made for public-health workers, emergency vehicles, media and critical services.
The new surgeons, nurses and health workers will allow theatres to operate over weekends and evenings.
Few health workers know how to keep records as fastidiously as international trials demand.
The WHO is calling for more direct investment in the training and support of health workers.
Health workers recently shared data to isolate a Laotian woman who had traveled into Thailand with flu.
Community Safety Minister Roseanna Cunningham admitted it was a constantly evolving challenge for police and health workers.
No group has claimed responsibility for the killing, but the Pakistan Taliban has threatened health workers before.
Community health workers and those based at the county's two main hospitals have also joined the industrial action.
Instead, health workers should switch to N95 respirators that form an airtight seal around the nose and mouth.
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Family members and primary level health workers are taught to seek immediate treatment if a new-born is unwell.
Heavy snows and rugged mountains have prevented health workers from reaching many villages thought to have infected birds.
More than 100 health workers received a letter and a questionnaire which trade unions described as "scare tactics".
The community health workers and expectant mothers can also receive text message reminders of clinic appointments and delivery dates.
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"We have contacted the religious leaders and urged them to come forward to protect health workers, " a WHO official said.
"We are quite excited about it because it is targeted at and developed for front-line health workers, " said Mr Perin.
The force will be speaking to health workers, social work and alcohol and drug action teams to alert drug users.
The mobile-based technology provided to Rwandan health workers by Voxiva, an American firm, should make users in rich countries jealous.
The private-sector soap companies and the government officials and health workers found it hard to understand each other at first.
Studies in India show that lay health workers also help people to better accept mental illness and necessary treatments.
The hospital, which employs 1, 700 nursing staff, described the vouchers as a "thank you" to health workers after a busy winter.
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The day Uvaldo died, health workers visited the family where they live - in several cramped houses around a small yard.
The health workers provide most services at the posts, though they also visit the homes of pregnant women and sick people.
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