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Before COVID-19, Malawi was on its way to ending AIDS. Now what?

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Community Health Workers conduct door-to-door screening for COVID-19 in Limpopo, South Africa. In Christopher Mlotha’s health district, Lilongwe, clinic visits for HIV treatment declined sharply when the country declared a COVID-19 state of emergency in early April this year. Mlotha coordinates HIV care and treatment (the ART program) for a district that covers 94 ART …

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How Massachusetts is learning from the Global South

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Care resource coordinators support people in COVID-19 isolation and quarantine by providing social and economic supports to address the whole of their health needs Imagine that you’ve been asked to quarantine following suspected exposure to COVID-19. You want to do the right thing to prevent the spread of disease, but can you really stay at …

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Resumed immunization campaigns are critical to preventing COVID-19 as well as polio.

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Shabana, a frontline Polio Worker, administers polio drops to children in Roshvala, Faisalabad (Pakistan). Photo: UNICEF Local adaptation and innovation has allowed the resumption of polio immunization campaigns — and points the way to more effective, community-based delivery of a whole range of basic health services. Countries including Afghanistan, Angola, Burkina Faso, Pakistan and the …

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Empowered health workers, healthier communities

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CHW Grace Karen Akinyi consults with her supervisor Shadrack Werunga, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: PCSU When COVID-19 began to spread around the world, governments needed to get prevention information out into far-flung communities, and they needed to do it quickly. Particularly in remote settings, community-based health workers (CHWs) typically serve as trusted sources for this kind …

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