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A partnership between Feed Health and the Millennium Villages Project means that Community Health Workers (CHWs) can provide testing, treatment and consultation to the most vulnerable population - many of whom would not be able to access healthcare otherwise.
Read more: Packed and Ready to Go: a short film on CHWs
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The latest edition of Safar news from the EHA has a special focus on Community Leadership, including an article from one of our Cluster members in Uttarakhand, India - Mr. Robert Kumar. As he puts it, "There is room in this world for more community leaders. The model of one leader on top and all the others on the bottom does not work." He goes on to talk about characteristics and principles of community leadership development. The magazine also features a selection of encouraging examples and interviews with community leaders. Click on the link to download.
 Safar Magazine Spring 2013: Community Leadership (1.25 MB)
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a pivotal role in primary care, serving as liaisons between community members and medical providers. However, the growing reliance of health care systems worldwide on CHWs has outpaced research explaining their praxis i.e. how they combine indigenous and technical knowledge, overcome challenges and impact patient outcomes. This paper from the journal Social Science and Medicine articulates the CHW Praxis and Patient Health Behavior Framework. Such a framework is needed to advance research on CHW impact on patient outcomes and to advance CHW training.
Read more: Community Health Workers in Brazil's Unified Health System
BBC Media Action has launched mobile health services to train 200,000 community health workers in Bihar, Northern India.
'Mobile Kunji' delivers audio visual content, and provides community health workers with affordable, standardised content to communicate life-saving messages on maternal and child health to rural families.
'Mobile Academy' is an audio training course for community health workers, designed to expand and refresh their knowledge of ten life-saving health behaviours, at a fraction of the cost of face-to-face training.
'Mobile Kunji' and 'Mobile Academy' are likely to set new standards in the way public healthcare and technology sectors intersect to create scalable and sustainable solutions.
You can read more by clicking here.
CHGN was excited to read about a recent consultation in Nairobi, involving Save the Children, the World Health Organisation, Norad, Equinet and others, on improving access to health workers for better maternal and child survival.
Read more: Recommendations: Improving access to CHWs
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