The impact of the Lesotho health reform in the re-structuring of the village health workers program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community Health Workers locally known as Village Health Workers (VHW) in Lesotho are key members of the primary health workforce, and has been playing a significant role in building primary health systems in many countries and they can fill significant gaps in human resources as low and middle income countries work towards universal health coverage in the era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2014 Lesotho health reform restructured the VHW program to compensate, professionalize, and integrate VHWs into primary care services. We sought to document the ways in which the VHW program changed as a result of the health reform and the perceived impact of those changes.

Methods

In 2018, we conducted a qualitative research study with an inductive content analys

SUBMITTER: Andom AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755818 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature