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Analysing 3429 digital supervisory interactions between Community Health Workers in Uganda and Kenya: the development, testing and validation of an open access predictive machine learning web app
BACKGROUND: Despite the growth in mobile technologies (mHealth) to support Community Health Worker (CHW) supervision, the nature of mHealth-facilitated supervision …
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Geo-analysis: the distribution of community health workers in relation to the HIV prevalence in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The South African Ward Based Primary Health Care Outreach Team (WBPHCOT) policy framework states that the distribution of community …
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Supportive supervision from a roving nurse mentor in a community health worker programme: a process evaluation in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Many low and middle- income countries (LMICs) are repositioning community health worker (CHW) programmes to provide a more comprehensive …
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Pan-ebolavirus serology study of healthcare workers in the Mbandaka Health Region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Although multiple antigenically distinct ebolavirus species can cause human disease, previous serosurveys focused on only Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV). Thus, the …
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Implementation of community case management of malaria in malaria endemic counties of western Kenya: are community health volunteers up to the task in diagnosing malaria?
BACKGROUND: Community case management of malaria (CCMm) is an equity-focused strategy that complements and extends the reach of health services …
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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Vaccination intention and attitudes of community health volunteers in Kenya
In Kenya, community health volunteers link the formal healthcare system to urban and rural communities and advocate for and deliver …
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Recruitment strategies to promote uptake of cervical cancer screening in the West Region of Cameroon
OBJECTIVES: The World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy for cervical cancer elimination has set the target of 70% of women …
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Core components of a Community of Practice to improve community health worker performance: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Communities of Practice (CoPs) offer an accessible strategy for healthcare workers to improve the quality of care through knowledge …
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Community Health Workers Increase the Rate of HIV Disclosure Among HIV Affected Heterosexual Partners in Rural Uganda; A Cluster Non-Randomized Controlled Trial
Abstract Background: HIV disclosure is a critical component of HIV prevention and treatment programs. Community Health Workers (CHW) play an …
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Socio-economic factors associated with the choice of community health workers as contraceptive providers in Rwanda
Abstract Background: In 2008, Rwanda decided to enhance its community health program in order to further scale up the health …
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Exploring health provider’s knowledge on the home-based maternal and neonatal health care package in Rwanda
BACKGROUND: Rwanda implemented post-natal care home visits by maternal community health workers (M-CHWs) in charge of maternal and newborn health …
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Integrating early stimulation and play at scale: study protocol for “MAHAY Mikolo”, a multi-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Hundreds of millions of children living in poverty worldwide are not reaching their full, developmental potential. Programs to promote …
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Readiness to implement on-site molecular testing for tuberculosis in community health centers in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Newer molecular testing platforms are now available for deployment at lower-level community health centers. There are limited data on …
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Blood pressure control in hypertensive patients attending a rural community health centre in Gauteng Province, South Africa: A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and its control has important clinical and socio-economic benefits to …
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Immunization data quality and decision making in pertussis outbreak management in southern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of immunization data and monitoring systems in the Dara …
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Feasibility of a randomized clinical trial evaluating a community intervention for household tuberculosis child contact management in Cameroon and Uganda
BACKGROUND: One of the main barriers of the management of household tuberculosis child contacts is the necessity for parents to …
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Understanding the factors affecting attrition and intention to leave of health extension workers: a mixed methods study in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: The Health Extension Program (HEP) is Ethiopia's flagship community health program, launched in 2003. Health Extension Workers (HEWs) are …
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Developing a patient-centered community-based model for management of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Uganda: a discrete choice experiment
BACKGROUND: The advent of all-oral regimens for the management of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) makes the implementation of community-based directly …
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Incidence and predictors of severe acute malnutrition mortality in children aged 6–59 months admitted at Pawe general hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is defined as a weight-for-height < -3z scores of the median WHO growth standards, or …
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Developing a framework to describe stigma related to cervical cancer and HPV in western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Despite a high prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries, stigma remains an …