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@chwcentral.bsky.socialA Community Health Worker can be trained and ready to provide care yet still lack the medicine a patient needs. Our new Kenya case study shows why reliable commodity availability depends on the whole supply chain working together. Read more: https://ow.ly/8Lpm50ZY7LR #CommunityHealth #SupplyChain
Show PostSome families refused to open their doors during a vaccination campaign in Niamey. CHW Sama Sarki Moussa chose to listen, not confront. Through dialogue & trust, families began coming back with questions & some who had initially refused accepted vaccination. Read; CHW Voices story: bit.ly/4zVjaMw
Show PostIn our latest Future Skills Podcast, host Bethany Haalboom explores the role Indigenous community health workers play in supporting health and well-being in rural, remote, and northern communities. Listen to the podcast here: bit.ly/4zLMB3N
Show PostA trial in rural China randomly assigned 326 villages to either usual care or intensive blood pressure management, with trained community health workers coaching nearly 34,000 adults aged 40 and older. Over four years, it tracked something blood pressure trials rarely follow: new dementia…
Show PostGlobal childhood vaccination rates continue to gradually recover after their steep pandemic dropoff—but rates are still far off the pace needed to meet global immunization goals, and could further unravel under global health funding cuts, the annual WHO-UNICEF immunization report finds.
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