Spend one minute with Abduaraman Gidi, a nurse who is passionate about saving the lives of mothers.

He shares a story about one mother he helped and talks about the value of training and supportive supervision.

Abduaraman Gidi works at Nifas Silk Lafto Health Center in Addis Ababa Region, Woreda 6, Ethiopia. His health center is among those supported by IntraHealth’s Community Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Project, which has worked with the government of Ethiopia to scale up and improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and child health services, and services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

The reason I’m a health worker is especially to save the lives of mothers. 

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The "I'm a Health Worker" video series features short, informal conversations with health workers all over the world. Contact us if you’d like to share your own interview with a health worker.

IntraHealth International's Community Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Project in Ethiopia is funded by the US Agency for International Development.

Special thanks to Yonas Asfaw for translating from the Amharic.