RESEARCH UTILIZATION
Senegal: Community Health Workers

In the new project, launched in 2004, 168 community health workers (84 men and 84 women) bring health services to rural areas, usually their home villages. The two-person teams of one man and one woman received training in the provision of reproductive health information and services. Using bicycles for transport, the volunteer community health workers carry a bag containing contraceptives, educational materials, and basic over-the-counter medicines and explain the basics of contraceptive use and how to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, to villagers who normally would not have access to health services (see UNFPA news story: PDF or external link).

May 2007

See Also

• FRONTIERS project

  • Testing a Community-based Distribution (CBD) Approach to Reproductive Health Service Delivery in Senegal
• Senegal
• FRONTIERS Publications/Resources on Senegal
• FRONTIERS Senegal

• FRONTIERS Scaling Up

• FRONTIERS Utilization of Research Findings

For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org

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