BACKGROUND Volunteer caregivers are a critical source of support for the majority of people living with HIV and AIDS in southern Africa, which has extremely high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates. While studies have shown that volunteer caregiving is associated with negative health and socio-economic outcomes, little is known about the positive experiences of volunteers in the home-based care context i...

OBJECTIVE To assess the skills of community health volunteers in diagnosing active trachoma and distributing azithromycin in the Northern Region of Ghana. METHODS Six community health volunteers from Daboya were trained to diagnose trachoma and to treat the disease using azithromycin. They were also informed of the drug's possible side-effects. Under supervision, each volunteer then examined,...

Background: Indonesian community healthcare volunteers and pregnant women have not received sufficient special training; they lack knowledge about periodontal disease risks during pregnancy childbirth. The purpose of this research was to increase volunteers' disease, which is a risk childbirth.Methods: 9 step theory based training model included stages from problem identification evaluation tha...

OBJECTIVE To assess the involvement of volunteers with direct patient/family contact in UK palliative care services for children and young people. METHOD Cross-sectional survey using a web-based questionnaire. SETTING UK specialist paediatric palliative care services. PARTICIPANTS Volunteer managers/coordinators from all UK hospice providers (n=37) and one National Health Service palliati...

Background Countries with health workforce shortages are increasingly turning to multipurpose community health workers (CHWs) to extend integrated services to the community-level. However, there may be tradeoffs with the number of tasks a CHW can effectively perform before quality and/or productivity decline. This qualitative study was conducted within an existing program in Iringa, Tanza...

Abstract Concerns have emerged of how the professionalization agenda in development sector may water down ‘spirit volunteerism’ that thrives on community initiative, informality, and flexibility. This paper explores role literacy learning practices bureaucratization drawing from an ethnography local volunteering Philippines. Through such as preparing health classes, making budget plans, writing...

Abstract This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with self-organised social clinic, within solidarity movements in Greece. The focused the co-creation of an oral history group aiming to record and make sense collection digital histories from its volunteers volunteers-doctors. process aimed support reflection shape future clinic’s ongoing innovation transform institutional public health ...

1) “Is there a viable ethics committee in the host country that will review the protocol and how can they be contacted?” 2) “What is the principal investigator’s relationship with the community from which research volunteers will be recruited?” 3) “Does the research protocol address the ethical challenges of conducting research in a developing country?” 4) “Is the purpose of the research respon...

Nepal underwent two major earthquakes during 2015 which claimed 9,000 deaths, left more than 23,000 injured, displaced about 2 million people and destroyed about 1,000 health facilities. Emerging health issues and disease outbreaks soon after the earthquakes were major priorities. However, preventive measures such as health education, health promotion and trainings embedded in community engagem...

Main objective was to describehealth facility and human resource related factors supporting uptake of cervical cancer screening in Kakamega County.Design; descriptive cross-sectional study adopting quantitative methods. Setting; County within 16 community units 8 sub counties.Sampling;multistage sampling used sample 48 health volunteers facilities.Interviewer administered questionnaire collect ...