This article originally appeared in The Impact Blog. Oriana Bandiera describes the close collaboration between a team of economists and the Government of Zambia to evaluate strategies to recruit, motivate and retain agents in the rollout of its National Community Health Assistant Programme. Using a randomised experiment the findings illustrate … [Read more...] about Zambia’s Ministry of Health works with economists to determine how best to recruit and retain community health workers
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Community health workers respond to Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
This blog was originally posted on the UNFPA website. In May, Sierra Leone detected its first-ever case of Ebola, the deadly and contagious haemorrhagic disease. By the end of July, the country had surpassed neighbouring Guinea, where the break was first reported, in number of positive cases. The outbreak has spread rapidly through four West African … [Read more...] about Community health workers respond to Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress
This post originally appeared on the USAID Frontlines Blog With her 3-month-old son, John, lethargic, feverish and vomiting, Korto Kinne sought help in the remote Sinje resettlers camp in the northwestern corner of Liberia. Musu Kpakar, a community health worker, administers a rapid finger-stick test to see if malaria parasites are present in John’s blood. Because malaria … [Read more...] about Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress
Human-Centered Design and the Last Mile: A collaborative approach to empowering community health workers drives innovation
Despite many challenges, Uganda’s village health teams deliver care to some of the nearly 85 percent of Ugandans who live in remote, hard-to-reach corners of the country, or the “last mile.” During some months, these committed volunteers know that they will have the medicines necessary to treat children dying of pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea. But during others, the teams are … [Read more...] about Human-Centered Design and the Last Mile: A collaborative approach to empowering community health workers drives innovation
CHW Central Top Resources
Having trouble finding reference materials on CHWs? Here is our top 10 List! From time to time, we present the top 10 most read documents in our collection of research papers, best practices, evaluations and case studies. This list spans: CHW motivation and role development; assessment toolkits and training manuals; CCM, malnutrition and nutrition; FP services … [Read more...] about CHW Central Top Resources