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Keeping community health workers in Uganda motivated: key challenges, facilitators, and preferred program inputs

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In the face of global health worker shortages, community health workers (CHWs) are an important health care delivery strategy for underserved populations. In Uganda, community-based programs often use volunteer CHWs to extend services, including family planning, in rural areas. This study examined factors related to CHW motivation and level of activity in 3 family planning … [Read more...] about Keeping community health workers in Uganda motivated: key challenges, facilitators, and preferred program inputs

Malnutrition Is Treatable: Access to Nutrition Services Makes the Impossible Possible for an OVC

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This success story describes URC's work with the government of Uganda to overcome malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic food and a simple device for detecting malnutrition. USAID’s Food and Nutrition Interventions for Uganda (NuLife), managed by URC, is helping the government reach rural populations by providing training to community-based workers. … [Read more...] about Malnutrition Is Treatable: Access to Nutrition Services Makes the Impossible Possible for an OVC

Integrating Nutrition Into HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programs

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This HIV & Infant Feeding Question and Answer Guide is a reference tool to provide health workers with information concerning updated international guidelines related to HIV and infant feeding. Health workers can refer to the Guide to explain the issues related to HIV and infant feeding, provide information and support to help prevent HIV transmission from women to their … [Read more...] about Integrating Nutrition Into HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programs

Task shifting in HIV/AIDS service delivery: An exploratory study of expert patients in Uganda

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This reports on a qualitative study conducted in May 2011 across six health facilities. It analyses the perspectives of expert patients, their supervisors and patients that they serve with regards to roles undertaken by expert patients and the support that they receive to undertake these roles. The report also provides recommendations for improvement and serves as a useful … [Read more...] about Task shifting in HIV/AIDS service delivery: An exploratory study of expert patients in Uganda

Impact of a mHealth intervention for peer health workers on AIDS care in rural Uganda: a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial.

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Mobile phone access in low and middle-income countries is rapidly expanding and offers an opportunity to leverage limited human resources for health. We conducted a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial exploratory substudy on the impact of a mHealth (mobile phone) support intervention used by community-based peer health workers (PHW) on AIDS care in rural … [Read more...] about Impact of a mHealth intervention for peer health workers on AIDS care in rural Uganda: a mixed methods evaluation of a cluster-randomized trial.