Cross-Cutting Topics
- Examining Roles, Support, and Experiences of Community Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: A Mixed Methods Study
Government-employed community health workers in Bangladesh are essential actors in the COVID-19 response in communities. Ensuring the workers’ equitable access to supportive mechanisms for their work, including training, infection prevention supplies, and supportive supervision, is critical for successfully preventing and managing COVID-19 in Bangladesh.
- Locked Down: Experiences of Domestic Violence in Central India
Mandatory lockdowns to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have led to increased reports of domestic violence experienced by women globally. Because health care workers focus on the pandemic response, women who experience domestic violence may not seek help and may remain a neglected population.
- Maintaining Continuity of Care for Expectant Mothers in Kenya During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of MomCare
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, the MomCare platform enabled care-seeking behaviors to increase and quality of care to be maintained for expectant mothers despite social, economic, and access barriers.
- Calculating the Cost and Financing Needs of the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan: Methods, Experiences, and Results
We present a methodology for calculating the funds necessary to provide primary health care services and apply it to the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan.
- Development of a Modular and Equitable Surgical Simulator
Current trends in surgical simulation favor high-fidelity, costly models that are often limited to high-income academic centers. The GlobalSurgBox overcomes many of the barriers to routine implementation and use of surgical simulators in low-income countries by circumventing the often prohibitive financial, time, and personnel investments required of current simulation prototypes.
- “Testing Can Be Done Anywhere”: A Qualitative Assessment of Targeted Community-Based Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV in Lusaka, Zambia
Community-based point-of-care testing is an acceptable, appropriate, and feasible strategy for improving access to HIV diagnostic services for high-risk HIV-exposed infants.
- Applying the iDARE Methodology in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania to Improve Health Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The iDARE methodology was implemented in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic to help build the capacity of local governments, facilities, and communities to identify, design, and implement local solutions to health problems. These solutions can be adapted and applied in any context with low-cost implications.
- Improving Community Health Worker Compensation: A Case Study From India Using Quantitative Projection Modeling and Incentive Design Principles
We quantitatively assess the design and performance of the accredited social health activist (ASHA) incentive structure and suggest recommendations that could potentially drive ASHA effectiveness and support the achievement of health outcomes.
- Matching Intent With Intensity: Implementation Research on the Intensity of Health and Nutrition Programs With Women's Self-Help Groups in India
Adding health interventions to women's groups primarily formed for financial purposes, such as self-help groups, is a widely used strategy to reach low-income women. An analysis of implementation intensity highlights the importance of ensuring that women's groups have sufficient time and population coverage to address health issues.
- Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment Implications
Community health workers have long played a critical role in preventing, detecting, and responding to pandemics across the globe. To expand, improve, and institutionalize these services, changes in the approach to bi/multilateral aid and private philanthropic investments in low- and middle-income countries are required.