This brief is an outline of Zambia’s community health assistant (CHA) program detailing the impact of a nationwide salaried cadre of CHWs. The report includes how CHAs are recruited, trained, and deployed in rural areas of Zambia. The impact of CHA programs was found to include: task shifting and uptake of services, evidence-based strategies to recruit high performance CHAs and increased the volume of health services in rural areas by expanding basic access to health services.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Program Design, Program Evaluation
Resource Type: Evaluation
Year: 2017
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Zambia
Publisher May Restrict Access: No