Community health workers (CHWs) enable marginalised communities, often experiencing structural poverty, to access healthcare. Trust, important in all patient–provider relationships, is difficult to build in such
communities, particularly when stigma associated with HIV/...ighlight medbox">AIDS, tuberculosis and now COVID-19, is widespread.
CHWs, responsible for bringing people back into care, must repair trust. In South Africa, where a national CHW programme is being rolled out, marginalised communities have high levels of unemployment, domestic violence and injury. In this complex social environment, we explored CHW workplace trust, interpersonal trust between the patient and CHW, and the institutional trust patients place in the health system
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These policy guidelines provide a strategic approach and new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services ... medbox">for patients suffering from substance-abuse addiction. The key recommendations fall under three main categories: joint planning, key interventions, and overcoming barriers.
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A Provisional Document. The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance to public health professionals tasked with managing a response to viral hepatitis. As every country’s needs are different with respect to its epidemiology and the current le...vel of response, people would use this manual in different ways
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Meeting Report
27–30 June 2017 Manila, Philippines
Endorsed by the CCM Georgia on April 15th 2015
Accessed: 26.09.2019
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is committed to ensuring the effective implementation of this strategy, which will contribute to the overall wellbeing and health of all adolescent boys ...an class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and girls of Bangladesh
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Updated to Reflect the 2009 Medical Eligibility Criteria of the World Health Organization
This publication by UNAIDS, UNDP and the International Organisation for Migration examines various dimensions related to migration and HIV ...ass="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and AIDS.
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