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Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers

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This article presents a model for the development of sustainable primary health care in village communities in Honduras through the training and support of CHWs. The model, piloted in Comayagua, follows a "bottom-up" approach. A training curriculum for CHWs was developed that addressed the area's predominant health problems and made use of "Where there is no doctor" Training, a … [Read more...] about Primary Health Care for Remote Village Communities in Honduras: A Model for Training and Support of Community Health Workers

Community Health Worker Programs: A Review of Recent Literature

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This paper reviews recently published literature on community health worker programs, primarily focusing on maternal and newborn child health. Eighteen CHW programs and eleven relevant articles were included. It identifies key components of successful CHWs programs, reviews past successes and failures of CHW program implementation and summarizes important lessons learned. … [Read more...] about Community Health Worker Programs: A Review of Recent Literature

Reducing Malnutrition and Child Deaths Using Care Groups

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This is an audio and slide presentation from 2009 by the director of health programs at Food for the Hungry (FH), Thomas P. Davis Jr. In it, Davis discusses FH's utilization of “care groups” to reduce malnutrition and child deaths in Mozambique. The care group method, developed by World Relief, mobilizes teams of women who volunteer to represent, serve and do health promotion … [Read more...] about Reducing Malnutrition and Child Deaths Using Care Groups

Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives Toolkit

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This toolkit provides a variety of resources that form a platform for strengthening organizations’ capacity to promote community-based access to injectable contraceptives and to advocate for national policy and service delivery guidelines. The components of the toolkit address program planning, implementation, evaluation and scale-up. It provides evidence and background … [Read more...] about Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives Toolkit