The role of a structured community health worker network in achieving malaria elimination goals in the Dominican Republic: An impact evaluation amid COVID-19 disruptions.

ABSTRACT: Community health workers (CHWs) can play a key role in malaria elimination through expanding access to malaria testing and treatment. The Dominican Republic, a low endemic country committed to eliminate malaria by 2025, implemented a structured malaria CHW network in the three main urban foci of Greater Santo Domingo. This research quantifies the networks' contributions towards malaria elimination from its implementation in 2019 until 2022. The study highlights the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on CHWs' performance and explores the network's ability to bounce back from health systems' shocks. The performance of the malaria CHW network was evaluated using weekly data collected from CHWs and routinely collected surveillance data from the Ministry of Public Health (MoH). We assess performanc

SUBMITTER: Michelen Strofer N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654942 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature