Expanded roles of community health workers to sustain malaria services in the Asia-Pacific: A landscaping survey.

ABSTRACT: Malaria Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are an important component of malaria elimination efforts. As malaria declines with intensified efforts to eliminate by 2030, expanding their roles beyond malaria could help to sustain funding and provision of malaria services at the community level. Evidence of how programmes have implemented and managed CHWs performing both malaria and non-malaria roles across the Asia-Pacific region can provide insight into the viability of this strategy. A short survey was distributed to national malaria programmes and implementing organizations in the Asia-Pacific region in 2021-2022. The survey identified CHW programmes in the region, and collected information on malaria and non-malarial services provided by CHWs, character

SUBMITTER: Jongdeepaisal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324099 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature