Community Health Workers/Volunteers

Client-Centered Counseling Improves Client Satisfaction with Family Planning Visits: Evidence from Irbid, Jordan

High levels of unmet need for family planning and high contraceptive discontinuation rates persist in Jordan, prompting the initiation of a client-centered family planning service program called ‘‘Consult and Choose’’ (CC), together with community-based activities to encourage women with unmet need to visit health centers. Exit interviews with 461 family planning clients … [Read more...] about Client-Centered Counseling Improves Client Satisfaction with Family Planning Visits: Evidence from Irbid, Jordan

This article reports on an intervention to enhance the knowledge and behavior of community health workers on providing adequate education to patients on malaria. The results showed simple and inexpensive interventions can improve proper content in malaria education and highlight the importance of appropriate content when planning CHWs education programmes. … [Read more...] about Improving Community Health Workers’ Knowledge and Behavior about Proper Content in Malaria Education

This article evaluates the cost effectiveness of facility-and home-based voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) in rural Uganda. A cost analysis using the “ingredients” approach and based on a programmatic perspective. Effectiveness was measured as the number of HIV sero-positive case identified. Home based VCT was the least costly strategy per client tested and was … [Read more...] about Cost-Effectiveness of Facility and Home Based HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Strategies in Rural Uganda

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

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