Training Community Health Workers to Manage Uncomplicated and Severe Malaria: Experience From 3 Rural Malaria-Endemic Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

 Use of community health workers (CHWs) to increase access to diagnosis and treatment of malaria is recommended by the World Health Organization. The present article reports on training and performance of CHWs in applying these recommendations.

Methods

 Two hundred seventy-nine CHWs were trained for 3-5 days in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Uganda, and 19 were certified to diagnose and treat only uncomplicated malaria and 235 to diagnose and treat both uncomplicated and severe malaria. Almost 1 year after training, 220 CHWs were assessed using standard checklists using facility staff responses as the reference standard.

Results

 Training models were slightly different in the 3 countries, but the same topics were covered. The main challenges noticed were the lo

SUBMITTER: Siribie M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146696 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature