In 2000, 189 world leaders from both rich and poor countries signed the Millennium Declaration, an agreement to work together to achieve eight specific goals around healthcare, education, poverty and environmental sustainability. Two of these goals were to reduce child mortality rates and improve maternal health.

The chronic shortage of trained health workers in the world’s poorest countries is recognised as one of the most fundamental barriers to achieving these goals. A fully trained and well-supported community health worker can effectively deliver treatments and provide health education to 5,000 children in a year.

In these countries GSK has committed to reinvest 20% of our profits from each country back in to improving the healthcare infrastructure in that country. In Bangladesh we are working with CARE International to help provide better healthcare for mothers and children, by increasing the number of community health workers and providing them with training to deliver vaccinations, diagnose illness, administer medicines, provide pregnancy support, and give hygiene, sanitation and nutritional advice.

So far, 120 community health workers in the region have been trained through this programme to provide essential health services to 40,000 families. This video follows one of one of these carers as she makes her rounds in the local - and not so local - communities.