The CORE Group’s Tuberculosis Working Group met with global partners and colleague agencies in 2007 to discuss lessons learned in community-based TB treatment. This paper reflects the discussions from that meeting and the lessons that were articulated throughout the two-day long event. It specifically highlights nine project-design challenges at the community level for such TB … [Read more...] about The Expansion of Community-Based Tuberculosis Programming: Critical Program Design Issues for New Partners
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Community Change Agents: “Doctors” of Malaria Information
Presented at the International Social and Behavioral Change Communication Summit in Ethiopia in February 2016, Ainslie’s PowerPoint presentation goes into detail about the COMMIT Program, a behavior change communication project for malaria prevention, treatment, and control in Tanzania. Key to the project is the utilization of Community Change Agents who communicated the … [Read more...] about Community Change Agents: “Doctors” of Malaria Information
Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos
YouTube Link: Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos Introduction to Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos 30 March 2016 The census-based, impact-oriented (CBIO) approach to improving the health of communities emerged in Bolivia in the 1980s when I was working there with the … [Read more...] about Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach: Webinar Discussion between Henry Perry and Daniel Palazuelos
Community Health Worker Data for Decision-Making
In 2015, the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign and mPowering Frontline Health Workers (mPowering) conducted a series of interviews and held an online discussion, hosted on the Healthcare Information for All forum, on the need of improved data on community health workers (CHWs) to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. … [Read more...] about Community Health Worker Data for Decision-Making
The current state of CHW training programs in SSA and South Asia
Although CHW programs are prevalent, little formal research has been conducted on CHW training programs or their effectiveness. To begin to address this a literature review was conducted to curate research regarding CHW training programs and curricula. This literature review identifies, synthesizes, and analyzes a wide body of literature related to CHW training in sub-Saharan … [Read more...] about The current state of CHW training programs in SSA and South Asia
