Stories: Health Workers

• Trading Wellness Tips, Brazil’s Community Workers Plug Primary Health Gaps

  by Eulich, Whitney | Brazil | April 10, 2014

  Marcia Cristina Bonfante and Adriana Siqueira Lima live in the same neighborhood in western São Paulo and have daughters around the same age. But when Ms. Bonfante drops by her neighbor's house, it's more than a simple social call. As a community health worker, Bonfante makes hundreds of such calls every month. Bonfante and four other...