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Community health workers adherence to referral guidelines: evidence from studies introducing RDTs in two malaria transmission settings in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Many malaria-endemic countries have implemented national community health worker (CHW) programmes to serve remote populations that have poor access …
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Non-adherence to community oral-antibiotic treatment in children with fast-breathing pneumonia in Malawi– secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: Despite significant progress, pneumonia is still the leading cause of infectious deaths in children under five years of age. …
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Improving early childhood care and development, HIV-testing, treatment and support, and nutrition in Mokhotlong, Lesotho: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Since 1990, the lives of 48 million children under the age of 5 years have been saved because of …
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Information, regulation and coordination: realist analysis of the efforts of community health committees to limit informal health care providers in Nigeria
One of the consequences of ineffective governments is that they leave space for unlicensed and unregulated informal providers without formal …
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Implementation and acceptability of strategies instituted for engaging men in family planning services in Kibaha district, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Men as the main decision makers in most of African families have an important role to play towards acceptance …
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Scaling-up the use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: results and lessons on scalability, costs and programme impact from three local government areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with 3+ doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) reduces maternal mortality and stillbirths in …
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Facilitators and Barriers to Uptake of an Extended Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programme in Ghana: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers and Community Health Workers
BACKGROUND: Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) is currently recommended for children under five in areas where malaria transmission is highly seasonal. …
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The role of pre-school teachers in the control of soil-transmitted helminthes in coastal region, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Soil transmitted helminthes (STH) are significant health problems among school-age children. In Kenya's coastal region, the prevalence among pre-school …
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Who Should We Target? The Impact of Individual and Family Characteristics on the Expressed Need for Community-Based Treatment Support in HIV Patients in South Africa
Reviews of impact evaluations of community-based health workers and peer support groups highlight the considerable variability in the effectiveness of …
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The impact of active surveillance and health education on an Ebola virus disease cluster — Kono District, Sierra Leone, 2014–2015
BACKGROUND: During December 2014-February 2015, an Ebola outbreak in a village in Kono district, Sierra Leone, began following unsafe funeral …
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Supportive supervision for volunteers to deliver reproductive health education: a cluster randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) can be effective in improving pregnancy and newborn outcomes through community education. Inadequate supervision of …
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Safety of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine plus Amodiaquine when Delivered to Children under 10 Years of Age by District Health Services in Senegal: Results from a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial
BACKGROUND: It is recommended that children aged 3 months to five years of age living in areas of seasonal transmission …
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The global pendulum swing towards community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review of trends, geographical distribution and programmatic orientations, 2005 to 2014
BACKGROUND: There has been a substantial increase in publications and interest in community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income …
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The use of formative research to inform the design of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention intervention in northern Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Experience of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is growing in the Sahel sub-region of Africa, though there remains insufficient evidence …
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Effect of provision of an integrated neonatal survival kit and early cognitive stimulation package by community health workers on developmental outcomes of infants in Kwale County, Kenya: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Each year, more than 200 million children under the age of 5 years, almost all in low- and middle-income …
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Detecting and staging podoconiosis cases in North West Cameroon: positive predictive value of clinical screening of patients by community health workers and researchers
BACKGROUND: The suitability of using clinical assessment to identify patients with podoconiosis in endemic communities has previously been demonstrated. In …
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A training intervention on child feeding among primary healthcare workers in Ibadan Municipality
INTRODUCTION: Health workers at the primary level are well positioned to provide health information and counselling on child feeding to …
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Human resource constraints and the prospect of task-sharing among community health workers for the detection of early signs of pre-eclampsia in Ogun State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: The dearth of health personnel in low income countries has attracted global attention. Ways as to how health care …
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Community health workers’ knowledge and practice in relation to pre-eclampsia in Ogun State, Nigeria: an essential bridge to maternal survival
BACKGROUND: Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Early detection and treatment have been …
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Community health worker knowledge and management of pre-eclampsia in southern Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Mozambique has drastically improved an array of health indicators in recent years, including maternal mortality rates which decreased 63 …