Front Line Nurse with Pearl Earring

Frontline health workers are comprised of all types of health workers—including nurses, midwives, community health workers, doctors, pharmacists, and more—who provide care directly to their communities.

They provide immunizations and treat common infections. They help families identify health conditions and link families to specialty care when needed. They stand as trusted sources of information and help their communities prevent, detect, and respond to leading killers, including diarrhea, pneumonia, HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis, as well as emerging threats like Ebola, Zika and recently, the 'Coronavirus'. Such a pandemic has taken a toll on their mental and physical health. Did you know in the mid-1600's, Northern Europe was hit with its last plague, a pandemic that killed over half the Scandinavian population.