Background What happens to women’s access to family planning when you partner nurse leaders with community health workers (CHWs)? That’s what IntraHealth International’s USAID-funded Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Mechanism sought to find out. One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, UNFPA estimated that the disruption in contraceptive services had lead to 1.4 … [Read more...] about Proactive Partnership: Nurse Leaders and Community Health Volunteers Work Together to Increase IUD and Other Family Planning Use in Kenya
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Linking CHVs, Youth and Community Members to increase Family Planning Services
Background and rationale for the intervention Access to reproductive health information and family planning services remains a significant global challenge. An estimated 214 million women of reproductive age in developing countries have an unmet need for contraception, primarily because they lack access to information, education, and contraceptive services (1). Unmet … [Read more...] about Linking CHVs, Youth and Community Members to increase Family Planning Services
Centering CHWs in Program Design, Assessment, and Improvement using the CHW AIM Tool
Lisez la version française ici. Centering CHWs in Program Design, Assessment, and Improvement using the CHW AIM Tool Community health worker (CHW) programs are at the dawn of a new era. Over the past six months, members of the Community Health Impact Coalition have published a series of case studies on CHW Central describing how non-governmental organizations, policy-makers, … [Read more...] about Centering CHWs in Program Design, Assessment, and Improvement using the CHW AIM Tool
Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs with CHW AIM
Lisez la version française ici. Health systems the world over have embraced the value of community health workers (CHWs) in extending essential services to the community level, improving health equity and progressing toward universal health coverage. Governments now have an opportunity to institutionalize CHW programs and professionalize this essential cadre of the health … [Read more...] about Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs with CHW AIM
The BRAC Shasthya Shebika and Shasthya Kormi Community Health Workers in Bangladesh
Background BRAC, or Building Resources Across Communities, was founded in 1972 and is one of the largest non- governmental organizations in the world. It has been a global leader in developing and scaling up community health worker (CHW) programs to serve Bangladesh’s large rural population. More than three decades ago, BRAC trained paramedics modeled on the barefoot doctor … [Read more...] about The BRAC Shasthya Shebika and Shasthya Kormi Community Health Workers in Bangladesh