Training community care workers to provide comprehensive TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT integrated care in KwaZulu-Natal: Lessons learnt
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Date
2012
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Wiley
Abstract
To describe a participatory approach to implement and evaluate ways to integrate and traincommunity care workers (CCWs) to enhance collaborative TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT activities, and home-basedHIV counseling and testing (HCT) at community level. The intervention study was conducted in Sisonke, a rural district of KwaZulu Natal, SouthAfrica. A baseline household (HH) survey was conducted in 11 villages. Six villages were randomlyselected into intervention and control clusters. Training was provided first to CCWs from the inter-vention cluster (IC) followed by the control cluster (CC). Routine monthly data from CCWs werecollected from March–December 2010. The data was subjected to bivariate tests.
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Public health, HIV, Community care workers, World Health Organization, South Africa
Citation
Uwimana, J. et al. (2012). Training community care workers to provide comprehensive TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT integrated care in KwaZulu-Natal: Lessons learnt. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 17 (4) , 488-496. 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02951.x