‘I can’t just leave them’: Kenya’s health workers carry on without pay

A community health worker during a home visit in the Mukuru informal settlement of Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by: © David Snyder / ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect

Nearly a year after the U.S. cut much of its health funding to Kenya, unpaid community health workers still underpin HIV and mental health care. A new U.S.-Kenya health deal has been signed, but its impact has yet to reach the front lines.