This document summarises the key components of the lay counsellors programme that have contributed to its success, such as careful recruitment practices and recognition of lay counsellors as valued members of health-care teams. The lay counsellors trained over the past two years play essential roles: they encourage and support HIV testing and drug adherence, complement the … [Read more...] about Engaging People Living With HIV as Lay Counsellors in HIV Care and Treatment Services: Experiences in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Sitting in Different Chairs: Roles of the Community Health Workers in the Poder es Salud/Power for Health Project
Evaluations of Community Health Worker programs consistently document improvements in health, yet few articles clearly describe the roles of Community Health Workers (CHWs) from the CHWs’ perspective. This article presents the CHWs’ points of view regarding the various roles they played in a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project, Poder es Salud/Power for Health … [Read more...] about Sitting in Different Chairs: Roles of the Community Health Workers in the Poder es Salud/Power for Health Project
Community-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Project (COPHIA)
The COPHIA program emphasizes the provision of home-based care and support services by multi-purpose community-based health workers to vulnerable households coping with the burden of caring for seriously ill family members or orphans and vulnerable children. The COPHIA community-based health workers, with the support of clinical and non-clinical supervisors, provide the direct … [Read more...] about Community-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Project (COPHIA)
Outcomes of Community Health Worker Interventions
This report provides a systematic review of the literature to document evidence on characteristics of community health workers (CHWs) and CHW interventions, outcomes of such interventions, costs and cost-effectiveness of CHW interventions, and characteristics of CHW training. CHWs can serve as a means of improving outcomes for underserved populations for some health conditions. … [Read more...] about Outcomes of Community Health Worker Interventions
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Report on Work Force Capacity and HIV/AIDS
The paucity of trained health professionals and other human resources to combat HIV/AIDS in the focus countries is a stark indicator of the challenges facing the Emergency Plan. Policies that mandate that only health professionals can provide health services, when trained community health workers could provide components of prevention, care, and … [Read more...] about President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Report on Work Force Capacity and HIV/AIDS