Provision of healthcare services | Health promotion/distribution of health goods | Community organization |
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• Home-based treatment of illnesses such as malaria, diarrhoea, ARI | • Home visits to promote health | • Encouraging community to undertake specific tasks such as setting up ambulance service, addressing specific health issues, collecting water for the health centre and health facility maintenance/repairs |
• Health education on areas such as HIV/AIDS prevention, nutrition, breastfeeding and hygiene | ||
• Follow up of TB/HIV patients | ||
• Assisting in clinics (weighing, record keeping) | • Providing nutrition/cookery classes | |
• Providing health education in health facilities | • Expanded Programme of Immunisation: defaulter tracing, mobilization of communities | |
• Advocating for community ownership of programmes (for example, support to CHO and CHPS programme in Ghana) | ||
• Collecting data: community register and disease surveillance | ||
• Promoting health insurance scheme | ||
• Attending planned and emergency births | ||
• Representing community at meetings (health committee, development committee) | ||
• Distributing and checking use of bed nets | ||
• Providing antenatal and postnatal care services | ||
• Mass drug administration – distribution, house-to-house visits (annual) | • Linking with other volunteers (for example, working with other NGOs) | |
• Family planning education and contraceptive distribution | ||
• Stimulating demand for and raising awareness of formal health services/referrals | ||
• Referrals for complications in pregnancy, illnesses in under 5s, HIV VCT, burns/injuries |