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Scale-Up of Home-Based Management of Malaria Based on Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy in a Resource-Poor Country: Results in Senegal (2012)
In Senegal, an HMM pilot study in 2008 demonstrated the feasibility of integrated use of RDTs and ACT in remote villages by volunteer Home Care Providers (HCP). This paper reports the results of the scale-up in the targeted communities and the impact of the strategy on malaria in the formal health sector.Read more…
Role of Health Extension Workers in Improving Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Rural Areas in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study (2012)
Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained cadres:health extension workers (HEWs) and this study investigates their role in improving utilization of maternal health services. Although HEWs have contributed to utilization of maternal health services, improved health facility delivery and skilled birth attendance remains an important problem. More effort is needed toRead more…
Knowledge and Performance of the Ethiopian Health Extension Workers on Antenatal and Delivery Care: A Cross-Sectional Study (2012)
This study investigated the knowledge and performance of health extension workers (HEWs) on antenatal and delivery care. And barriers and facilitators for HEWs in the provision of maternal health care. 39 HEWs working in health posts were interviewed. Findings showed that poor knowledge of HEWs, poorly equipped health posts, and poorRead more…
Community Discussion Guide for Maternal and Newborn Health Care: A Training Manual for Safe Motherhood Action Groups (2012)
This guide contains detailed guidance on how to train safe motherhood action group volunteers in two key areas of their portfolio – maternal and newborn health care. It was successfully used in six rural districts of Zambia.
Provision of Injectable Contraceptives in Ethiopia through Community-Based Reproductive Health Agents (2011)
The objective of this study was to determine if, with appropriate training, volunteers known as community-based reproductive health agents can administer injectable contraceptives to women in a rural region of Ethiopia with the same effectiveness, safety and acceptability as health extension workers. The demand for injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia hasRead more…
Reaching Mothers and Babies with Early Postnatal Home Visits: The Implementation Realities of Achieving High Coverage in Large-Scale Programs (2013)
Community-based maternal and newborn care programs with postnatal home visits from providers who deliver preventive or curative services that save lives have been tested in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal. This paper examines coverage and content of home visits in pilot areas and factors associated with receipt of postnatal visits. FindingsRead more…
A Universal Truth: No Health Without A Workforce (2013)
This report was commissioned by the Global Health Workforce Alliance Secretariat and the World Health Organization to consolidate the latest information available on human resources for health and inform the global community on how to attain, sustain and accelerate progress on universal health coverage. It was launched at the ThirdRead more…
Integrating Child Health Services into Malaria Control Services of Village Malaria Workers in Remote Cambodia: Service Utilization and Knowledge of Malaria Management of Caregivers (2013)
This study aimed to identify determinants of caregivers’ use of village malaria workers services for childhood illness and caregivers’ knowledge of malaria management. This paper looks at a program in Cambodia, where village malaria workers (VMW) have been providing malaria control services in remote villages. The study aimed to identify determinantsRead more…
Quality of Sick Child Care Delivered by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi (2013)
Malawi’s CCM programme is a promising strategy for increasing coverage of sick child treatment, although there is much room for improvement, especially in the correct assessment and treatment of suspected pneumonia and the identification and referral of sick children with danger signs. However, HSAs provided sick child care at levels of quality similarRead more…
Effectiveness of Community Health Workers (CHWS) in the Provision of Basic Preventive and Curative Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Interventions: A Systematic Review (2009)
This review was designed to find evidence of the effectiveness of CHWs in providing basic preventive and curative MNCH interventions, and to identify the factors that are crucial to their performance. The review looked at relevant English-language articles from 1998-2008 and systematically reviewed 14. The results showed that in 12/14Read more…
Client-Centered Counseling Improves Client Satisfaction with Family Planning Visits: Evidence from Irbid, Jordan (2013)
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 familyRead more…
Improving Community Health Workers’ Knowledge and Behavior about Proper Content in Malaria Education (2009)
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.
Cost-Effectiveness of Facility and Home Based HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Strategies in Rural Uganda (2013)
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 testedRead more…
Engaging People Living With HIV as Lay Counsellors in HIV Care and Treatment Services: Experiences in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (2010)
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 HIVRead more…
Sitting in Different Chairs: Roles of the Community Health Workers in the Poder es Salud/Power for Health Project (2008)
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 esRead more…
Community-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Project (COPHIA) (2005)
The COPHIA program emphasizes the provision of home-based care and support services by multi-purpose community-based health workers to vulnerable households coping with the burden of caring for seriously ill family members or orphans and vulnerable children. The COPHIA community-based health workers, with the support of clinical and non-clinical supervisors, provideRead more…
Outcomes of Community Health Worker Interventions (2009)
This report provides a systematic review of the literature to document evidence on characteristics of community health workers (CHWs) and CHW interventions, outcomes of such interventions, costs and cost-effectiveness of CHW interventions, and characteristics of CHW training. CHWs can serve as a means of improving outcomes for underserved populations forRead more…
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Report on Work Force Capacity and HIV/AIDS (2006)
The paucity of trained health professionals and other human resources to combat HIV/AIDS in the focus countries is a stark indicator of the challenges facing the Emergency Plan. Policies that mandate that only health professionals can provide health services, when trained community health workers could provide components of prevention, care, and treatment services atRead more…
Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: Training Course and Handbook for Community Health Workers (2006)
This pre-tested and peer-reviewed curriculum focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for providing holistic CHBC for people living with HIV/AIDS, transferring knowledge and skills to caregivers and CHBC clients, and mobilizing communities around HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support. The trainer’s guide includes comprehensive units that cover topics fromRead more…
Informal Health Workers: To Be Encouraged or Condemned? (2006)
Informal health workers are found in every health system, and the impact of their role increases as the strength of the formal sector weakens. Informal health workers can be significant players in communities and deserve to be acknowledged, encouraged and supported. This editorial discusses the role informal health workers playRead more…
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