For World AIDS Day 2018, we want to recognize the critical role that community health workers play in the HIV/AIDS response. Across the globe, CHWs of various kinds—from full-time salaried community health workers to part-time peer educators and mentor mothers—provide services essential to ensurring continuum of care, combating stigma and discrimination, and supporting the … [Read more...] about Appreciating the critical role CHWs play in the HIV/AIDS response
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CHWs as gender embedded and transformative agents: effectiveness, decent work and social change
The session Towards a Community Health Worker Gender Action Framework: Implications for Decent Work, Rights and Responsibilities, at the 4th global forum on Human Resources for Health brought together five panelists[i] to share evidence and experience on how gender shapes CHW work and how CHWs can be agents for gender transformation. Through its explicit exploration of gender … [Read more...] about CHWs as gender embedded and transformative agents: effectiveness, decent work and social change
Chapter 16: Case Studies of Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs
This summarizes Appendix A of the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. Appendix A of the CHW Reference Guide provides an in-depth view of 13 large-scale CHW programs drawn from … [Read more...] about Chapter 16: Case Studies of Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs
Tomorrow’s CHWs: Early Child Development
VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: Building Tomorrow's Community Health Workforce As part of the ‘Symposium on CHWs and Their Contribution Towards the Sustainable Development Goals’ Makerere University (Uganda), CHW Central, Nottingham Trent University (UK), and World Vision are supporting a series of interviews with academic leaders and experts in international health … [Read more...] about Tomorrow’s CHWs: Early Child Development
Tomorrow’s CHWs: Promoting mental health and wellbeing
VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: Building Tomorrow's Community Health Workforce As part of the ‘Symposium on CHWs and Their Contribution Towards the Sustainable Development Goals’ Makerere University (Uganda), CHW Central, Nottingham Trent University (UK), and World Vision are supporting a series of interviews with academic leaders and experts in international health … [Read more...] about Tomorrow’s CHWs: Promoting mental health and wellbeing