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“I don’t have options but to persevere.” Experiences and practices of care for HIV and diabetes in rural Tanzania: a qualitative study of patients and family caregivers

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Task Shifting and Delivery of Behavioral Medicine Interventions in Resource-Poor Global Settings: HIV/AIDS Treatment in sub-Saharan Africa

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A time-use study of community health worker service activities in three rural districts of Tanzania (Rufiji, Ulanga and Kilombero)

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Novel community health worker strategy for HIV service engagement in a hyperendemic community in Rakai, Uganda: A pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial

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Development and Evaluation of a Mental Health Training Program for Community Health Workers in Indonesia

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“Part of getting to where we are is because we have been open to change” integrating community health workers on care teams at ten Ryan White HIV/AIDS program recipient sites

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The Effect and Feasibility of mHealth-Supported Surgical Site Infection Diagnosis by Community Health Workers After Cesarean Section in Rural Rwanda: Randomized Controlled Trial

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Nurse led home-based care for people with HIV/AIDS

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Confirming—and testing—bonds of trust: A mixed methods study exploring community health workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Haiti and Kenya

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Interprofessional collaboration between pharmacists and community health workers: a scoping review

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Youths’ perceptions of community health workers’ delivery of family planning services: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study in Nakaseke District, Uganda

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Adaptation and implementation of a parenting curriculum in a refugee/immigrant community using a task-shifting approach: a study protocol

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Measuring motivation among close-to-community health workers: developing the CTC Provider Motivational Indicator Scale across six countries

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Addressing the Mental and Emotional Health Impacts of COVID-19 on Children and Adolescents: Lessons From HIV/AIDS

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Detention of People Lost to Follow-Up on TB Treatment in Kenya: The Need for Human Rights-Based Alternatives.

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The Effectiveness of Health Services Delivered by Community Health Workers on Outcomes Related to Non-Communicable Diseases among Elderly People in Rural Areas: A Systematic Review

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Peer Outreach Work as Economic Activity: Implications for HIV Prevention Interventions among Female Sex Workers

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Rehabilitation training for home-based palliative care community health workers: a pilot study

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Community strategies to tackle tuberculosis according to the WHO region of origin of immigrant communities

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Outsiders, insiders, and intermediaries: village health teams’ negotiation of roles to provide high quality sexual, reproductive and HIV care in Nakaseke, Uganda

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Ethical practice in my work: community health workers’ perspectives using photovoice in Wakiso district, Uganda

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Task Sharing and Shifting to Provide Pathology Diagnostic Services: The Kenya Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Cytology and Bone Marrow Aspiration and Trephine Biopsy Training Program

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Impact of community health worker intervention on PrEP knowledge and use in Rakai, Uganda: A mixed methods, implementation science evaluation

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Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation

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Community Health Workers Improve HIV Disclosure Among HIV-Affected Sexual Partners in Rural Uganda: A Quasi-Experimental Study

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The usefulness of traditional birth attendants to women living with HIV in resource-poor settings: the case of Mfuwe, Zambia

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Cohort profile: the open, prospective Community-Based chronic Care Lesotho (ComBaCaL) cohort – design, baseline chronic disease risk factors and hypertension and diabetes care cascades

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The association between health workforce availability and HIV-program outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire

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An Evaluation of the Role of an Intermediate Care Facility in the Continuum of Care in Western Cape, South Africa

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HIV partner services in Kenya: a cost and budget impact analysis study

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The HIV SEERs Project: A Qualitative Analysis of Program Facilitators’ Experience

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Training and Evaluation of Community Health Workers (CHWs): Towards Improving Maternal and Newborn Survival in an Urban Setting in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Access to maternal-child health and HIV services for women in North-Central Nigeria: A qualitative exploration of the male partner perspective

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Community and stakeholders’ engagement in the prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study in socioeconomically disadvantaged suburbs in region Stockholm

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Hospitalized with HIV in Zambia: individual and system factors driving the high burden of admissions and post-discharge mortality in the era of HIV epidemic control

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Administrative interventions associated with increased initiation on antiretroviral therapy in Irkutsk, Siberia

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Costs of implementing community-based intervention for HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

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Reckoning HIV/AIDS care: A longitudinal study of community home-based caregivers and clients in Swaziland

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Time savings – realized and potential – and fair compensation for community health workers in Kenyan health facilities: a mixed-methods approach

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Harmonizing community-based health worker programs for HIV: a narrative review and analytic framework

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Community health agents, nurses and physicians conducting research in Brazil’s family health program

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“They have been neglected for a long time”: a qualitative study on the role and recognition of rural health motivators in the Shiselweni region, Eswatini

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Stigma and Discrimination of HIV/AIDs Recipients of Care in Western Uganda: Experiences and Roles of Expert Clients

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Barriers and facilitators of rendering HIV services by community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-synthesis protocol

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Improving access to maternal health services among rural hard-to-reach fishing communities in Uganda, the role of community health workers

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Challenges Facing Successful Scaling Up of Effective Screening for Cardiovascular Disease by Community Health Workers in Mexico and South Africa: Policy Implications.

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Patient trust and positive attitudes maximize non-communicable diseases management in rural Tanzania

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A scoping review exploring cancer survivorship in Africa: 2011 to 2024

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