COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers

/in , , , , /by

Community health workers (CHWs) serve as a very important direct link between patients, communities and health services. As trusted on-the-ground support to community members, they therefore expand access to essential healthcare information as well as available treatment and prevention programmes.

This course book provides appropriate, cost-effective, and sustainable targeted learning for the large numbers of emerging community health workers in South Africa.

This online book includes these chapters:

  1. Introduction to COVID-19
  2. Diagnosing and managing COVID-19
  3. How to prevent the spread of COVID-19
  4. Protecting yourself from COVID-19

​​​​​​These chapters have been successfully used as part of the Skills to Care learning programme for the Lukhanji Municipality and Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, funded by the Small Projects Foundation.

Source: COVID-19 Guide for Community Health Workers

    Views 865

    Playbook for Mask Use

    /in , /by

    Playbook for Pandemic Response, an initiative led by Final Mile, is a real time documentation of strategies and solutions impacting behavioral outcomes critical to pandemic response that can immediately be used by a variety of stakeholders. This particular playbook addresses mask usage.

    Source: Playbook for Mask Use

      Views 604

      When and How to Use Masks

      /in , /by

      This page offers detailed instruction on how to put on a mask, use it, and dispose of it to prevent infection with COVID-19.

      Included are infographics, posters, and instructional videos.

      Source: When and How to Use Masks

        Views 633

        Team Human Vs Team COVID

        /in , /by

        As a subscribed organization that uses football as the core component to reach out to the youth with health messages, development of football based comic booklets featuring team Covid-19 Vs Team Human is underway. The booklets will be distributed via door to door to the youth who participate in VAP’s youth programs as well as through their parents’ WhatsApp group. The print version will be supplemented by an electronic animation version to be watched at homes by the youth and the general public while learning about covid-19 and its preventive measures.

        Source: Team Human Vs Team COVID

          Views 744

          COVID-19 House to House Community Outreach Protocol

          /in , , , , , /by

          This protocol provides guidance to CGP-GHS Project staff on how to ensure the health and safety of community health volunteers (CHVs) and the unintentional spread of COVID-19 in the community. The need to conduct community-based surveillance and health promotion needs to be weighed against the risk of endangering either CHVs or community members while conducting house-to-house surveillance and health education and promotion activities.

          This protocol is the current position of CGP-GHS Project regarding community outreach activities in the context of COVID-19. The epidemiology of the outbreak remains unclear, and therefore the global community is relying on standard outbreak response protocol to disrupt transmission of COVID-19. Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is cross-cutting in all areas of outbreak response but is primarily the tool to inform the public on risk and prevention measures. One of the most effective ways to communicate risk and the behavior changes that are required to prevent disease is through health education and promotion at the household level.

          Source: COVID-19 House to House Community Outreach Protocol

            Views 1108