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The development of successful learning materials for CHWs requires significant collaboration among stakeholders and a careful balance of priorities. At Partners In Health, the training team includes staff from the US and offices across the globe, working with our sister organizations in Rwanda, Haiti, Malawi and Lesotho. The training team…

Currently more than seven million HIV-positive people are eligible for antiretroviral treatment globally but are not receiving it. Health system challenges, including the shortage of a well-trained health care workforce have created barriers to scaling up HIV care and treatment. Recognizing the critical shortage of health care workers in low-and…

CHWs serve as an interface between the community and the public health system. Almost all CHWs are trained either by the government Ministry of Health and/ or non-governmental organizations (NGO) and community-based organizations (CBO). Whether the CHW is trained as a generalist to  provide community-based health interventions or specially trained…

Poor management has often been cited as a common weakness in the sustainability of CHW programs.  This is compounded by a lack of flexibility in management personnel to respond to contextual issues, poor training of managers, and a significant dearth of information on day-to-day performance of dynamic programs.  When a…

Last month, Xinia posed this question, which I believe is a central one for many of us working in community health: “How do we ensure educational processes in the community? How do we avoid what I call ‘a mere knowledge transmission’ and substitute it for real educational processes with the…