{"id":276908,"date":"2019-05-22T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEATbLI0nSJ1lTpsS3JaKegsqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowrNYCMIB2MIGDCg?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:26","slug":"the-elders-visited-ethiopias-health-ministry-and-a-community-clinic-on-primary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276908","title":{"rendered":"The Elders visited Ethiopia\u2019s health ministry and a community clinic on primary care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Elders met State Minister of Health Dr. Lia Tadesse and visited Feres Meda health centre in Addis Ababa to discuss universal health coverage and community health workers.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Elders visited Ethiopia\u2019s health ministry and a community clinic on primary care\" \/>\n<p>The delegation praised Ethiopia\u2019s focus on primary care for poor and vulnerable groups, urged a larger health budget, and welcomed the Community Health Academy program with Last Mile Health, which was training frontline workers with digital tools and had already enrolled thousands online.<\/p>\n<p>International elder visits often flatter hosts, so the file should be read as a dated policy checkpoint rather than proof that coverage gaps were closed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health policy archive, the meeting marks how Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early government marketed community health and digital training to global partners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.looktothestars.org\/news\/19021-the-elders-welcome-ethiopias-commitment-to-primary-health-care-and-digital-innovation\">Look to the Stars \/ The Elders<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elders Welcome Ethiopia&#8217;s Commitment to Primary Health Care and Digital Innovation&nbsp;&nbsp;Look to the StarsThe Elders met Ethiopia&#8217;s State Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse, on 20 May 2019 to learn more about the country&#8217;s efforts to achieve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754863,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276908\/revisions\/754863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}