CHW as an extension of health care- and surveillance systems
malaria
MALARIA, DISEASE, DISEASES
An important factor contributing to preventable malaria morbidity and mortality, as well as morbidity and mortality from other preventable diseases is a lack of access to the healthcare system CHWs often are lay people trained on program-specific health care interventions. Due to their access to hard-to-reach communities, CHWs can contribute valuably to disease prevention and control and thus be an important addition to national malaria control programs As CHWs are often embedded in and trusted by their communities, they can serve as resource for their community's challenges. In the absence of surveillance systems for post-marketing pharmacovigilance, they can feed back important information about drug safety and other relevant observations to regulators which can help identify and understand reduced effectiveness of therapies or safety concerns.