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1968 Government trains midwives for remote villages, First Alaska community health aide class. Left to right: Herman Moonin, Mary Wassillie, Mary Nikolai, Dr. Carolyn Brown, Anne Jackson, and Jennie Erickson.
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 3.58.49 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:02:41+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Congress establishes the Alaska Community Health Aide Program to train health workers for remote villages and to serve in larger towns, at a ratio of 1 worker per 300 people. While the program is directed to the entire population of Alaska, most participants are Native women, who traditionally care for women during childbirth, or who come from families where women provide the health care.plain2022-10-21T23:02:41+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49