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Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India

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In India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) play a vital role in providing care for marginalized communities. ASHAs remain hopeful that their role as vital community health workers will eventually become professionalized through the government. The author of this article argues that the state’s ability to provide hope to its ASHA workers of a professionalized, … [Read more...] about Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India

Anti-Rabies Vaccine Compliance and Knowledge of Community Health Worker Regarding Animal Bite Management in Rural Area of Eastern India

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Preventing rabies continues to be a struggle in developing countries. The authors of this study assessed community health worker (CHW) knowledge of how to address a potential rabies case. They found that CHWs had limited knowledge about bite wounds that could lead to rabies cases, highlighting an opportunity to enhance training to fill this knowledge gap in CHWs so they are … [Read more...] about Anti-Rabies Vaccine Compliance and Knowledge of Community Health Worker Regarding Animal Bite Management in Rural Area of Eastern India

Investigating violence against Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs): a mixed methods study from rural North Karnataka, India

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In India, female community health workers (CHWs), also called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), provide essential services to their communities. However, their experience of violence as they carry out their work is not well researched. The authors of this paper conducted a mixed-methods study to understand the violence ASHAs experience. They found that violence … [Read more...] about Investigating violence against Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs): a mixed methods study from rural North Karnataka, India

Making the invisible visible: Developing and evaluating an intervention to raise awareness and reduce lead exposure among children and their caregivers in rural Bangladesh

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Prenatal and early childhood exposure to lead can be extremely harmful. As part of an informational childhood development intervention in rural Bangladesh, community health workers (CHWs) delivered lead-exposure information to pregnant women and mothers and then administered surveys to assess knowledge, attitude, and behavior changes. Awareness of the harms of prenatal and … [Read more...] about Making the invisible visible: Developing and evaluating an intervention to raise awareness and reduce lead exposure among children and their caregivers in rural Bangladesh