Community Health Workers

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Health workers rest outside a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility

How to Stop West Africa’s Brain Drain

by Mohamed Bella Jalloh, Amrit Virk, Ini Dele-Adedeji, Bassey Ebenso

Investing in Africa’s health-care workforce could contribute to a more resilient and robust global health infrastructure

Governance
A community health worker adds chlorine to water while internally displaced people gather to fill their buckets at the water point in Muna Garage IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, on October 23, 2022.

The Future of Community Health Workers in Global Health

by Tom Frieden, Chen Chen, Krishna Jafa

Over-performing, but under-utilized

A health worker sits outside a makeshift camp for blood tests on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, on November 30, 2006
Gender

Addressing Contraceptive Needs for Women Living With HIV

by Preetika Banerjee, Ipsita Bhattacharjee, Shalini Singh

How community health workers can help promote choice in reproductive health care

in a slum Mumbai, India, July 23, 2020
Governance

How India Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage

by Parth Sharma, Preethi John

Empowering community health workers with digital tools will bridge health-care gaps

Asmita Koladiya, a health-care worker, carrying her eight-month-old daughter, gives a dose of vaccine against COVID-19 to a man in Lodhida village, in Gujarat, India, on February 2, 2022.
Gender

Women Are Transforming Health in Rural Villages in India

by Mukteshwari Bosco, Maya Welch, Gayathri Prashanth

Community health "entrepreneurs" prevent disease, strengthen social safety nets, and improve well-being

Students attend a class at the beginning of the school year amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Sanaa, Yemen October 18, 2020. The photo shows a darkened classroom with several students facing the camera. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Governance

COVID-19—A Review of Community Participation

by Oluwatemilorun Adenipekun

Citizen participation can reduce damages caused by the pandemic and—crucially—help identify a sustainable path forward

Snapshot from a time when it's far from normal: women carry cattle fodder through a mustard field on Earth Day, amid the coronavirus lockdown, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on April 22, 2020. This is a stunning photo showing three women with large bales of freshly cut plants on their heads walking through a field thrown into a yellow hue because of the flowering mustard greens. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Governance

Expanding Health-Care Access in Times of Coronavirus

by Om Prakash Bera, Vandana Shah

Health and wellness centers have expanded access to primary health-care services in Punjab, India—even in the pandemic

Maasai elders, wearing traditional clothes and facemasks due to coronavirus, gather within the Orboma Manyatta in Sekenani, near the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya, on August 10, 2020. This is a striking photo that shows a number of the elders in brightly colored reddish clothing on a clear day against a backdrop of what appears to be a village. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Governance

In Africa’s COVID-19 Response, Strive, Don’t Settle

by Vanessa Kerry

Broad and equitable health systems could finally be within reach for African countries—closer than the world realizes