ABSTRACT Background: Community health workers (CHWs) can play vital roles in
increasing coverage of basic health services. However, there is a need for a systematic …

Large-scale community health worker programs are now growing in importance around the
world in response to the resurgence of interest and growing evidence of the importance of …

Background Gastrointestinal parasite (GIP) infections are a major cause of global morbidity,
infecting hundreds of millions of people each year and potentially leading to lifelong …

Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) are central to Primary Health Care
globally. Amidst the current flourishing of work on CHWs, there often is a lack of reference to …

Aims: Childhood illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia remain major contributors to
child mortality globally and need to be continually targeted in pursuit of universal health …

Suaahara, an at‐scale multisectoral nutrition programme in Nepal, aimed to advance
knowledge and skills of frontline health workers to improve the quality of nutrition and health …

Nepal achieved the Millennium Development Goal 5 by reducing its maternal mortality by
more than two thirds. This achievement has been credited to Female Community Health …

Understanding country community health worker (CHW) programs has never been more
important. Existing efforts to expand health services are insufficient and may leave one-third …

Since the 1990s, Senegal has made notable progress in key health indicators. Between
1990 and 2017, maternal mortality dropped from 540 to 236 deaths per 100,000 live births …