There is renewed interest in the potential contribution of community health workers to child
survival. Community health workers can undertake various tasks, including case …

Diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria are the largest contributors to childhood mortality in sub-
Saharan Africa. While supply side efforts to deliver effective and affordable interventions are …

OBJECTIVE: To review individual case histories of children who had died of pneumonia in
rural Uganda and to investigate why these children did not survive. METHODS: This case …

Background Curative interventions delivered by community health workers (CHWs) were
introduced to increase access to health services for children less than five years and have …

Objective To determine the competence of community health workers (CHWs) to correctly
assess, classify and treat malaria and pneumonia among under‐five children after training …

Background: Infections account for about half of neonatal deaths in low-resource settings.
Limited evidence supports home-based treatment of newborn infections by community …

Background: Preventable maternal and newborn deaths can be averted through simple
evidence-based interventions, such as the use of community health workers (CHWs), also …

Background Lay community health workers (CHWs) have been widely used to provide
curative interventions in communities that have traditionally lacked access to health care …

Pneumonia causes around 750 000 child deaths per year in sub-Saharan African (SSA)
countries. The lack of accessibility to prompt and effective treatment is an important …

Objective To assess the quality of care provided by Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs)—
a cadre of community-based health workers—as part of a national scale-up of community …