What is it about?
This article is a synthesis report of the Third Community Workers' Symposium held in Monrovia, Liberia in March 2023. It reports the lessons learnt vis a vis the South Sudan Boma Health Initiative using a comparative lens. It ends with a short discussion on the implications of the international thought on community health worker programmes and what is happening in South Sudan and makes suggestions in the recommendations.
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Why is it important?
Healthcare provision in South Sudan, and other low and middle income countries, faces a number of bottlenecks including and acute lack of human resources for health. To solve this, countries have resorted to utilizing community health workers to act as front liners in their communities. There is evidence that this has been useful during Covid 19 and the West African Ebola outbreak where community health workers were instrumental in delivery essential services and combating the epidemics.
Perspectives
Community health workers are valuable assets in the provision of much needed health services in their communities but they have limits dictated by their level of training. Hence they need to work under very close supervision and guidelines so that they do not endanger the people they are meant to serve.
Dr. Kon Paul Alier
University of Juba Medical School
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This page is a summary of: The third community health workers’ symposium, Liberia, 2023: What are the implications for South Sudan’s Boma Health Initiative?, South Sudan Medical Journal, February 2025, African Journals Online (AJOL),
DOI: 10.4314/ssmj.v18i1.9.
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