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In the United States, as in the rest of the world, Community Health Workers (CHWs) have attracted a great deal of attention lately. In the US this has happened both as a result of ongoing national health care reform and as a general recognition of CHWs’ value and impact on…

Pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria together account for more than half of deaths among children ages 6 months to 5 years. New preventive interventions – such as the pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines – will help reduce this mortality burden. But ensuring prompt and effective treatment of these all-too-common illnesses (particularly among…

When you hear the term ‘community health worker’ you may well have in mind quite a specific profile. You may picture someone doing community talks and going house-to-house giving behavior change counseling or perhaps your image includes dispensing or case-management functions, passing out condoms, oral contraceptives or oral rehydration salts….

To be sure, many questions exist pertaining to the scalability and sustainability of CHW programs. Despite the presence of country examples, not a lot is known about large-scale CHW programs that have been sustained over a relatively long period of time. Documentation of these programs, including how they were scaled…