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Implementing a Community Strategy within the Aphia II Nyanza Project (2009)
This document describes Aphia II Nyanza’s 2006-10 strategy to support Kenya’s Ministry of Health as well as FBOs and CBOs to: improve and expand facility based services, civil society activities to increase healthy behaviors and care, and support for people and families affected by HIV and AIDS.
Do lay or community health workers in primary health care improve maternal and child health and tuberculosis outcomes? A SUPPORT Summary of a systematic review (2011)
This systematic review is helpful for people who need to make decisions about the use of lay health workers in primary and community care delivery. The authors reviewed 82 studies to assess the effects of lay health worker interventions on improving MCH and TB outcomes. Key findings and considerations ofRead more…
The Ife South Breastfeeding Project: training community health extension workers to promote and manage breastfeeding in rural communities (1997)
This article presents the findings of a project to promote exclusive breastfeeding in rural communities through the training of community health extension workers in rural Nigeria. The authors found that the training of extension health workers in rural communities is feasible, can have a beneficial impact on breastfeeding promotion, andRead more…
Supply Chain Models and Considerations for Community-Based Distribution Programs: A Program Manager’s Guide (2010)
This document provides guidance in the design of systems for community-based distribution (CBD) programs. The guide aims to assist program managers and other stakeholders in designing and implementing stronger and more sustainable supply chains for their CBD programs. The guide is intended to serve as a resource of tools thatRead more…
Promising Practices in Supply Chain Management for Community-Based Distribution Programs: Global Survey of CBD Programs (2010)
This global survey documents the preliminary research and findings that the JSI team compiled to inform the final project document, Supply Chain Models and Considerations for Community‐Based Distribution Programs: A Program Manager’s Guide. It can be used as a reference to any person or organization interested in CBD programs.
Malaria Rapid Testing by Community Health Workers is Effective and Safe for Targeting Malaria Treatment: Randomised Cross-Over Trial in Tanzania (2011)
This study assessed the impacts of use of rapid malaria diagnostic tests (RDTs) by CHWs on the provision of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and health outcome in fever patients in Tanzania. The authors found that RDTs administered by CHWs may improve early and well-targeted ACT treatment in malaria patients atRead more…
The lady health worker program in Pakistan- a commentary (2011)
This short commentary discusses the Lady Health Worker (LHW) program in Pakistan. LHWs serve as an important link between community and health facilities, providing both preventative and curative care. However, additional improvements are suggested that could further facilitate a thriving program. These include: incentives for LHWs (improving salaries, timely contractRead more…
Improving community health worker use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Zambia: package instructions, job aid and job aid-plus-training (2008)
This study examined: (i) whether Zambian CHWs could prepare and interpret RDTs accurately and safely using manufacturer’s instructions alone; (ii) whether mostly pictorial instructions (a “job aid”) could raise performance; and (iii) whether a brief training program would produce further improvement. The authors found that manufacturers’ instructions, like those providedRead more…
Supervision of community peer counsellors for infant feeding in South Africa: an exploratory qualitative study (2010)
This paper reports on a qualitative study of the experiences of three CHW supervisors who were responsible for supporting infant feeding peer counselors in three diverse settings in South Africa. This study highlights the need to pay attention to the experiences of supervisors in order to better understand the componentsRead more…
Community-directed interventions for major health problems in Africa (2008)
In 2005, a three-year multi-country study was launched to examine how the Community Directed Intervention (CDI) approach, which had been remarkably successful in distributing ivermectin for treatment of onchocerciasis, could be used alongside ivermectin for integrated delivery (or co-implementation) of four other health interventions: Vitamin A supplementation, distribution of insecticide-treatedRead more…
Administration of misoprostol by trained traditional birth attendants to prevent postpartum haemorrhage in homebirths in Pakistan: a randomised placebo-controlled trial (2010)
This trial sought to determine if misoprostol is safe and efficacious in preventing postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) when administered by trained birth attendants (TBAs) at home deliveries. The authors found that the administration of misoprostol by trained TBAs at home deliveries reduced the rate of PPH by 24%. The authors noteRead more…
Community Health Workers – Key messages (2010)
From the World Health Organization: A global consultation of programme managers, policy makers and experts was convened by the Alliance in April 2010 in Montreux, Switzerland, to review the recommendations of a systematic review on Community Health Workers (CHWs), share experiences, and develop broad agreement on key messages for countriesRead more…
One Million Community Health Workers Technical Task Force Report (2011)
In response to widespread recognition of the need to scale up community health workers as a part of primary health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, this technical report was prepared to consolidate scientific and implementation experience in a series of recommendations and guidelines. This technical taskforce report focuses on providing broadRead more…
Community health workers and the response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa: tensions and prospects (2008)
This paper summarizes the key features of the emerging national CHW program in South Africa. This includes CHWs’ integration into a national public works program and the use of non-governmental organizations as intermediaries. The paper also reports on one province, the Free State investigating CHW numbers and training, specifically withRead more…
Community acceptability of use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria by community health workers in Uganda (2010)
This study assesses community acceptability of the use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) by Ugandan CHWs, locally referred to as community medicine distributors (CMDs). The study found that the use of RDTs by CMDs is likely to be acceptable by community members provided that CMDs are properly trained, and receiveRead more…
Factors Affecting Recruitment and Retention of Community Health Workers in a Newborn Care Intervention in Bangladesh (2010)
This study investigates reasons for high rates of CHW attrition in Sylhet District in northeastern Bangladesh. The framework presented in this paper illustrates the decision-making process women go through when deciding to become, or continue as, a CHW. Factors such as job satisfaction, community valuation of CHW work, and fulfillmentRead more…
Healthy Villages: A guide for communities and community health workers (2002)
This guide outlines the type of information and approaches that Healthy Villages managers could provide to their communities; it can be used as the basis for developing material that is specific to regions or to entire countries. Healthy Villages deals with achieving good health through: water, excreta disposal, drainage, solidRead more…
Barriers to Advanced Education for Indigenous Australian Health Workers: An Exploratory Study (2009)
This study assesses the career goals of local Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) and community stakeholders to identify barriers to undertaking advanced health education. It uses open-ended interviews with nine participants in two communities in Northwest Queensland, Australia and found that, although interest in careers like medicine and nursing were expressed,Read more…
Are vaccination programmes delivered by lay health workers cost-effective? A systematic review (2009)
This is a systematic review of the costs and cost-effectiveness of using community health workers in vaccination programmes. The review only identified three studies that met their inclusion criteria. Methodologically, the studies were strong but did not adequately address affordability and sustainability and were also highly heterogeneous in terms ofRead more…
Increasing access to Family Planning (FP) and Reproductive Health (RH) services through task-sharing between CHWs and community mid-level professionals in large-scale public-sector programs: A Literature Review to Help Guide Case Studies (2011)
CHW programs throughout the world vary in structure and emphasis. This literature review addresses the challenge of making connections among inputs, processes and outcomes of these diverse community programs. Completed as part of the USAID-funded project of the same name, it analyses 78 of the most useful documents on CHWRead more…
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