Disease relevance of Community Health Aides

• The sero-prevalence of T. solium Taeniasis was highest in the migrant farm worker community [1].

High impact information on Community Health Aides

• Factors positively associated with treatment entry included: prior treatment, intervention by community workers, assignment to the EI, not injecting cocaine, injecting opiates, and fewer program interventions received [2].
• The Cooperative Medical System (CMS) and its barefoot doctors have been in decline in rural China for nearly a decade [3].
• DESIGN: Information on the outcome of treatment was collected on all tuberculosis cases registered with the Tuberculosis Control Programme in 1994 and 1995 and treated under supervision by tuberculosis control staff, nurses or village health workers [4].
• Mortality was not reduced further by chemoprophylaxis with Maloprim given weekly by village health workers throughout the rainy season [5].
• This side effect of malaria treatment could influence usage of chloroquine phosphate provided by village health workers [6].

Associations of Community Health Aides with chemical compounds

• China, isolated from the rest of the world and using only simple DDS therapy, but ensuring its use through its barefoot doctor approach, has shown a reduction of leprosy cases from 500,000 to 100,000 in the past three decades [7].
• Use of impregnated bednets was higher in areas where the sale of permethrin emulsion by village health workers was supplemented by the sale of insecticide in individual packages through shops [8].
• We have reviewed a malaria chemoprophylaxis programme in which Maloprim (pyrimethamine and dapsone) has been administered fortnightly by village health workers (VHWs) to approximately 1500 children each year aged 6-59 months resident in 15 primary health care villages in a rural area of The Gambia over 5 years [9].

Gene context of Community Health Aides

• Malaria control by village health workers in the province of Dosso, Niger. Part. 1. Operational analysis [10].
• Cancer education for Community Health Aides/Practitioners (CHA/Ps) in Alaska assessing comfort with cancer [11].
• A successful, preventive-oriented village health worker program in Hebron, the West Bank, 1985-1996 [12].
• Recommendations highlighted the need for building more PHC centres in Mqanduli and Elliodale districts; to recruit, select and train village health workers; and to staff clinics according to the WHO staffing norms [13].
• Our goal was to describe the development and implementation of an intervention on cancer prevention for Latinas in San Diego, Calif. Thirty-six lay community workers ("consejeras") were recruited and trained to conduct educational group sessions [14].

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