Lao PDR’s public health system is rudimentary. Owing to both its geography and the large rural population, Lao has developed along the model of small villages clustered into various “districts” within the country’s sixteen provinces. Rural healthcare needs fall to district clinics and hospitals where mid and low-level healthcare providers have minimal training and limited clinical and educational resources. The Lao Ministry of Health has identified workforce capacity-building and training of healthcare workers at the District level as a major health care priority.