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Potential challenges of implementing the Community Health Extension Worker programme in Uganda

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Authors: James O’Donovan, Christina Elise Stiles, Deogratias Sekimpi, Isaac Ddumba, Niall Winters, Edward O’Neil Jr

The planned roll out of the Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) program in Uganda is set to be implemented in 2018. Based on the Ugandan Ministry of Health’s extensive experience with Village Health Teams in the past decade, this commentary addresses potential challenges that will arise in the implementation of the new CHEW program.

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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Program Design, Program Evaluation, Scale-up

Resource Type: Best practices, Research

Year: 2018

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Country: Uganda

Publisher May Restrict Access: No

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