Nepal’s Community Health Worker System
52,000 Female Community Health Volunteers serve as part of the Nepali community health workforce. These part-time volunteers primarily support health education, counseling, outreach, and resource distribution. Each volunteer receives counseling, supplies, and other resources from their respective health center on a monthly basis. Their cumulative efforts have contributed to Nepal’s…
Myanmar’s Community-Based Health Workers
Myanmar hosts a wide range of community health workers, including Malaria and TB Volunteers, Maternal Health Workers, and Village Health Workers. The government has invested significant resources into strategic planning to ensure that these workers cover the country’s most pressing public health challenges. Training length and intensity and the type…
FAH Partnership and CHF Hub
We are excited to announce the formation of a new partnership between CHW Central and the Financing Alliance for Health (FAH). CHW Central is launching a new page, the Community Health Financing (CHF) Hub, to share information, investment cases, and resources for financing community health programs. The mission of FAH…
Mozambique’s Agentes Polivalentes Elementares
CHWs in Mozambique are equipped with a range of skills to provide integrated community case management for Mozambicans. Following an 18-week training period, each CHW provides care for as many as 2,000 inhabitants in communities situated up to 25 kilometers from health facilities. In response to exceptional program accomplishments, the…
Malawi’s Community Health Worker Program
Prompted by supply chain and health quality constraints, in 2017 Malawi launched the National Community Health Strategy to develop a workforce capable of providing lifesaving interventions for serious childhood illnesses and educating about disease prevention. Health Surveillance Assistants receive 12 weeks of training to provide comprehensive services, including services such…