Dear Editor: Your story Thursday on the global decline of child mortality cites the need for “training village health workers.”
Your readers may like to know that their university is doing just that in the East African country of Uganda, where approximately one in seven children die before their fifth birthday.
With funding from the Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, personnel from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Extension have started a partnership with Uganda’s Makerere University that will ultimately reach over 100 villages.