1 million community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015

[...]the report underscored the importance of integrating CHW subsystems into the next generation of primary health-care delivery.5 The UN's Broadband Commission, UNAIDS, Roll Back Malaria, and the MDG advocates are among the groups calling for a massive scaling up of CHWs in sub-Saharan Africa...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 382; no. 9889; pp. 363 - 365
Main Authors Singh, Prabhjot, Sachs, Jeffrey D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 27.07.2013
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Africa South of the Sahara
Chronic illnesses
Community Health Services - economics
Community Health Services - manpower
Community Health Services - organization & administration
Community Health Workers - organization & administration
Community Health Workers - supply & distribution
Financing, Organized
Health care policy
Health education
Hospitals
Humans
Internal Medicine
Low income groups
Malaria
Population
Supervision
Vector-borne diseases
Workers
Africa South of the Sahara
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Summary:[...]the report underscored the importance of integrating CHW subsystems into the next generation of primary health-care delivery.5 The UN's Broadband Commission, UNAIDS, Roll Back Malaria, and the MDG advocates are among the groups calling for a massive scaling up of CHWs in sub-Saharan Africa. [...]note that the scale-up of CHW programmes should not be restricted to low-income and middle-income countries.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62002-9