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Brazil
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Community Health Assistants (CHAs)
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Promoting breastfeeding as well as providing prenatal, child care, immunizations, screening and treatment of infectious diseases services
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From $100 to $228 per month
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- Done through family health care teams
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- About 240,000 CHAs
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- Teams consist of nurses and physicians from the local clinics
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- Launched in 1991
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- 33,000 family health care teams
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Pakistan
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Lady Health Worker (LHWs)
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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
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$343 per year
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Conducted by Lady Health Worker supervisor
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- About 90,000 LHWs
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- Launched in 1992.
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Ethiopia
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Health Extension Workers (HEWs)
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Providing basic first aid, contraceptives, and immunizations, as well as diagnosing and treating malaria, diarrhoea, and intestinal parasites
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About $84 monthly
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Conducted by district team comprising health officer, a public health nurse, an environmental technician and health education expert
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- About 34,000 HEWs
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- Launched in 2003
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India
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Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)
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Community mobilisation, motivating women to give birth at health posts, promoting immunisations, family planning, treating basic illness, keeping demographic records, and improving village sanitation.
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About 600 rupees ($10) for facilitating an institutional delivery, and 150 rupees ($2.50) for each child that successfully completes immunisation session
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Conducted by ASHA facilitators
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- About 800,000 (ASHAs)
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- Launched in 2005
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