When this works, it looks like this: Community health worker Anjolly Didi, 32, in rural Bangladesh, talks about how recognising danger signs in children, and ensuring they have access to the right treatment, means lives saved.

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In Afghanistan, the murder in broad daylight of a foreign UN worker in November pushed the UN to withdraw its international staff from rural areas in the south and east.

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