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Caregivers’ compliance with referral advice: evidence from two studies introducing mRDTs into community case management of malaria in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Several malaria endemic countries have implemented community health worker (CHW) programmes to increase access to populations underserved by health …
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Community health worker support to improve HIV treatment outcomes for older children and adolescents in Zimbabwe: a process evaluation of the ZENITH trial
BACKGROUND: Community health worker (CHW)-delivered support visits to children living with HIV and their caregivers significantly reduced odds of virological …
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An illustrated booklet for reinforcing community health worker knowledge of tuberculosis and facilitating patient counselling
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) have facilitated the move to decentralise tuberculosis (TB) management, but lack access to information appropriate …
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Towards a framework for analyzing determinants of performance of community health workers in malaria prevention and control: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are an important human resource in improving coverage of and success to interventions aimed at …
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Treating schistosomiasis among South African high school pupils in an endemic area, a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by parasites that infest open water sources such as rivers and dams may …
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Evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) use by community health workers: a longitudinal study in western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are a simple, point-of-care technology that can improve the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of …
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Prevalence of stunting and its associated factors among children 6-59 months of age in Libo-Kemekem district, Northwest Ethiopia; A community based cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: Children in developing countries are highly vulnerable to impaired physical growth because of poor dietary intake, lack of appropriate …
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Health insurance coverage with or without a nurse-led task shifting strategy for hypertension control: A pragmatic cluster randomized trial in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Poor access to care and physician shortage are major barriers to hypertension control in sub-Saharan Africa. Implementation of evidence-based …
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Universal versus conditional day 3 follow-up for children with non-severe unclassified fever at the community level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A cluster-randomized, community-based non-inferiority trial
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's integrated community case management (iCCM) guidelines recommend that all children presenting with uncomplicated fever and …
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Universal versus conditional day 3 follow-up for children with non-severe unclassified fever at the community level in Ethiopia: A cluster-randomised non-inferiority trial
BACKGROUND: With declining malaria prevalence and improved use of malaria diagnostic tests, an increasing proportion of children seen by community …
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Knowledge of, and attitudes to giving expressed breastmilk to infants in rural coastal Kenya; focus group discussions of first time mothers and their advisers
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative step number five of the "Ten steps to successful breastfeeding" states …
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Facilitators and barriers to birth preparedness and complication readiness in rural Rwanda among community health workers and community members: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BP/CR) comprise a strategy to make women plan for birth and encourage them to …
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Community knowledge, attitudes and practices on Yellow fever in South Omo area, Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Yellow fever (Yf) outbreak was recently reported in South Omo of Southern Ethiopia. This area was also highly affected …
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Making ward-based outreach teams an effective component of human immunodeficiency virus programmes in South Africa
The implementation of ward-based outreach teams (WBOTs), comprised of community health workers (CHWs), is one of the three interventions of …
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Social value of a nutritional counselling and support program for breastfeeding in urban poor settings, Nairobi
BACKGROUND: In Kenya, poor maternal nutrition, suboptimal infant and young child feeding practices and high levels of malnutrition have been …
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Community-based maternal, newborn, and child health surveillance: perceptions and attitudes of local stakeholders towards using mobile phone by village health volunteers in the Kenge Health Zone, Democratic Republic of Congo
BACKGROUND: In early 2016, we implemented a community-based maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) surveillance using mobile phones to collect, …
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Multiple-level stakeholder engagement in malaria clinical trials: addressing the challenges of conducting clinical research in resource-limited settings
BACKGROUND: Multinational clinical trials are logistically complex and require close coordination between various stakeholders. They must comply with global clinical …
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Implementing Community-based Health Planning and Services in impoverished urban communities: health workers’ perspective
BACKGROUND: Three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa's urban population currently live under slum conditions making them susceptible to ill health and diseases. …
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The roles, training and knowledge of community health workers about diabetes and hypertension in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
BACKGROUND: The current roles and capacity of community health workers (CHWs) in the management and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) …
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Optimal mode for delivery of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Ouelessebougou, Mali: A cluster randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), the administration of complete therapeutic courses of antimalarials to children aged 3-59 months during the …