Table 6 Summary of national scale programmes
Country | CBHW programme | Roles | Incentives | Supervision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brazil | Community Health Assistants (CHAs) | Promoting breastfeeding as well as providing prenatal, child care, immunizations, screening and treatment of infectious diseases services | From $100 to $228 per month | - Done through family health care teams |
- About 240,000 CHAs | - Teams consist of nurses and physicians from the local clinics | |||
- Launched in 1991 | - 33,000 family health care teams | |||
Pakistan | Lady Health Worker (LHWs) | Supporting maternal and child health services, which include family planning, HIV/AIDS and treatment of minor illnesses. Providing health education, essential drugs for minor ailments, contraceptives, vaccination and making referrals | $343 per year | Conducted by Lady Health Worker supervisor |
- About 90,000 LHWs | ||||
- Launched in 1992. | ||||
Ethiopia | Health Extension Workers (HEWs) | Providing basic first aid, contraceptives, and immunizations, as well as diagnosing and treating malaria, diarrhoea, and intestinal parasites | About $84 monthly | Conducted by district team comprising health officer, a public health nurse, an environmental technician and health education expert |
- About 34,000 HEWs | ||||
- Launched in 2003 | ||||
India | Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) | Community mobilisation, motivating women to give birth at health posts, promoting immunisations, family planning, treating basic illness, keeping demographic records, and improving village sanitation. | About 600 rupees ($10) for facilitating an institutional delivery, and 150 rupees ($2.50) for each child that successfully completes immunisation session | Conducted by ASHA facilitators |
- About 800,000 (ASHAs) | ||||
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