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Supporting Community Health Workers is Critical – But Who, What and How? (2012)
Community health workers—known by myriad titles, from health extension workers to village volunteers—form a critical part of the frontline health workforce in many low- and middle-income countries. So what kind of community and health system support improves community health worker (CHW) performance? This very question was debated by around 100Read more…
Sustaining the Impact of Community Health Workers: Evidence from Health System Assessments (2012)
Countries seeking to expand health services to the community-level to ensure equity of access to care frequently turn to community health workers (CHW) as an essential expansion of the health team. A variety of approaches to training, hiring and supporting community health workers have been implemented by countries, and thereRead more…
Enhancing training of community health workers in DRC through effective management (2012)
Evidence of the need to scale up the number of frontline health workers in developing countries abounds throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as described in the recent post in this blog by Avril Ogrodnick of Abt Associates. Yet training new health workers is not sufficient, in itself, to sustainably address the crisisRead more…
How to save 3.6 million children each year? Invest in community health workers (2013)
The following is a Q&A between Julia Bluestone of Jhpiego and the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Dr. Henry Perry of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on a recently released report examining community health workers’ effectiveness in saving lives and improving health. The post was originally publishedRead more…
Improving the quality of data collected by community health workers in rural Malawi (2013)
In 2007, Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU), the sister organization of Partners In Health (PIH) in Malawi, began a community health worker program to support HIV care in the remote, rural district of Neno. The program was designed to complement and be integrated with a Ministry of Health national HIVRead more…
Teaching New Mothers Living with HIV about the Importance of Breast-feeding (2013)
Though HIV can be transmitted from mother to child through breast milk, studies have shown that women living with HIV are less likely to pass the virus if they breast-feed their babies exclusively for at least four months. Breast milk contains nutrients and essential antibodies that can help babies fendRead more…
Backpacks That Save Lives? You Bet! (2013)
Summer is winding down. Store shelves are stocked with notebooks and pencils instead of sunscreen and beach balls. And for most kids, the essential back-to-school purchase is the almighty backpack. If you’re going to carry books and lunch to school, you’d better have something durable — and fashionable! — strappedRead more…
Make Recife Count: Adapt HRH to the UHC Agenda (2013)
Worldwide, there are severe shortfalls in the health workforce — not just in the quantity of doctors, nurses and other health workers, but in their management, performance and geographical distribution. These shortfalls are particularly glaring in light of the global movement for universal health coverage, progress toward which will requireRead more…
An interview with Dr. Ram Shrestha:Supporting Community Health Workers- Where do we stand? (2014)
As a health professional, whenever I visit a rural village in a low-or middle-income country, several thoughts come to mind. Knowing that the formal health system usually ends at a health center, dispensary, or health post in these rural communities, does everyone in this village have access to health services?Read more…
How To Inspire Courage, Spur Action And Save Lives (2014)
April and early May are bookended by World Health Worker Week (April 7-11) and International Day of the Midwife (May 5) — two opportunities to recognize the invaluable contributions of health workers in saving and bettering the lives of our communities. The women and men who have been on myRead more…
Improved Data on Community Health Workers Critical to Achieving Global Health Goals (2014)
Cape Town, South Africa, September 29, 2014 – A new report finds that developing nations’ ability to deal with pressing health challenges like HIV/AIDS and ensuring maternal and newborn survival will be strengthened by creating a common definition for community health workers, as well as a core set of skillsRead more…
Counting Community Health Workers “Counts” (2014)
CONARKY, Guinea – How many community health workers (CHWs) are there? What are community health workers’ tasks? How can we more efficiently integrate CHWs into national health systems? Global public health leaders widely acknowledge that there are not enough health workers in the world. Tragically, this fact has been furtherRead more…
Using Mobile Phones to Train Healthworkers (2015)
Project The Health Enablement & Learning Platform (HELP) is a pilot project which harnesses Amref Health Africa’s understanding of African communities and their health needs, instantaneously delivering relevant health information to the mobile phones of community health workers (CHWs) in a cost-effective manner. A multidisciplinary partnership between Accenture, the AccentureRead more…
Exploring A Day In The Life Of Community Health Workers (2015)
In dozens of countries, tens of thousands of women and men get up each morning to travel miles over rough roads and across rivers and streams to provide primary health care in some of the world’s most remote, vulnerable, and hard-to-reach places. At any given moment, these people, known asRead more…
A Call to Scale-Up Community Health Workers (2015)
This post is co-authored with Sonia Sachs on behalf of the 1 Million CHW Campaign. Public health officials and practitioners from around Africa and from international public and private organizations, businesses, and universities, met in Accra, Ghana June 9-11 to consider ways to scale-up the coverage of high-quality community healthRead more…
One Million Community Health Workers Campaign Annouces Launch of CHW Profiles (2015)
Currently, it is difficult for the global community to assess the state of the world’s community health workers. How many community health workers are out there? Who do they work in partnership with? What services do they offer? How are national programs designed? What are the different components to lookRead more…
Valuing and Sustaining (or Not) the Ability of Volunteer Community Health Workers to Deliver Integrated Community Case Management in Northern Ghana: A Qualitative Study (2015)
This study sought to understand the experience of the integrated community case management of childhood illnesses (iCCM) program in Accra and the Northern Region of Ghana from the local UNICEF staff, their partners, researchers, CHWs and others. Results found that both mothers and facility level staff appreciated CHWs efforts toRead more…
Improving Maternal and Newborn Health: Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Program in Rural Kenya (2015)
This study looked at the effectiveness of CHW projects in rural Kenya that aimed to promote better maternal newborn health knowledge and to increase deliveries under skilled attendance. Some pieces of information that were examined included: relevant demographic items, knowledge about maternal and newborn health, and whether a retrospective birthRead more…
‘ Trust and teamwork matter ’ : Community health workers’ experiences in integrated service delivery in India (2015)
CHW experiences in Orissa, India go beyond the technical aspects of combining different health systems. Teamwork and building trust with the community were found to be pivotal parts of their practice. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) primary health care ideology conflicts with the narrow indicators of health system performanceRead more…
Community health workers of Afghanistan: a qualitative study of a national program (2015)
In 2003 a Basic Package of Health Services was designed to provide services to the rural population in Afghanistan. This descriptive, qualitative study examines the gender breakdown and effectiveness of the CHW workforce. As some of the 20,000 CHWs across the country move up the hierarchy of supervision and training,Read more…
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