For the first time ever, community health workers in Kenya will receive formal recognition for the critical role they play in delivering care.
This finding is consistent with studies conducted in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Egypt, which highlighted the impact of proximity on seeking medical attention and access to care [35,36,37]. Limited access to services due to long distances acts as a barrier to the utilization of sexual and ...
From 2016 to 2018, the Commission held several consultations and synthesised available evidence, with the support of researchers at the Guttmacher Institute (New York, NY, USA), African Population and Health Research Center (Nairobi, Kenya), and other organisations affiliated with some of the ...
and eight ALHIV who became pregnant. All consented and were ALHIV acquired perinatally, aged 15–19 years, informed of their HIV status, and followed in three paediatric HIV care centres in Abidjan. participating
Regarding IPV, two studies in India and Kenya found that women exposed to physical violence are less likely to use contraceptives, more likely to experience unwanted pregnancies, and have a higher fertility rate [18, 19]. Despite increasing evidence implicating the partner’s influence on the ...
Labour Kenya Dispossession Structural violence 1. Introduction The community health approach has existed in international health for over a century (Packard, 2016; Rifkin, 2014), but was codified and catalysed by the UN Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978. The post-war landscape and the rapid decolon...
Some NGOs in other African countries such as Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa rolled back services, including clinics, contraception, training and support for government and community health workers, as well as programs for young people, sex workers ...
Leveraging peer-based support to facilitate HIV care in Kenya. PLoS Med. 2017;14(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002355. Schnall R, Bakken S, Rojas M, Travers J, Carballo-Dieguez A. mHealth technology as a persuasive tool for treatment, care and management of persons living ...
Program-specific CHWs, e.g., providing malaria control in Colombia, Guinea worm disease and onchocerciasis in Africa; injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda; AIDS or tuberculosis care in New York City; immunization and discovery of unmanaged diabetes and hypertension in low-income ho...
The Mosoriot Medical Record System evaluation in Kenya showed improved staff productivity and reduced patient wait times (Rotich et al., 2003). OPENMRS system is an open source freely available system that has been implemented in Africa (Seebregts et al., 2009), Haiti (Fraser et al., 2004...