Rabi Dako stands with her daughter in Cotonou, Benin after receiving mosquito nets as part of the nation’s first digitized mosquito net distribution. Sophisticated digital technologies are helping field workers in Benin distribute malaria prevention tools safely and efficiently If COVID-19 continues to disrupt malaria prevention efforts, hundreds of thousands of children could die. That’s …
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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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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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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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 …