Authors: Uche V. Amazigo ,Stephen G. A. Leak,Honorat G. M. Zoure,Chukwu Okoronkwo,Maimouna Diop Ly,Sunday Isiyaku,Andy Crump,Joseph C. Okeibunor,Boakye Boatin
Community health workers (CHWs) are critical in the delivery of medicines and other tools for the control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), prevention of malaria, and other beneficial health interventions. This review highlights the burden of work on CHWs in Sub-saharan Africa in the face of NTDs and COVID-19, along with the inadequate financial resources to strengthen health services at the community level. They recommend policy measures for a wider application of existing networks of CHWs by countries’ health systems to consolidate and accelerate interventions.
Link: Community-directed distributors—The “foot soldiers” in the fight to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases
Resource Topic: COVID, COVID-19, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Infectious/communicable diseases, Policy
Resource Type: Review
Year: 2021
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
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Publisher May Restrict Access: No