Table. 1 Major CHW programmes in LMICs [18]
Country | Number of CHWs | Name of CHW cadre |
|---|---|---|
Afghanistan | 27,000 | Community health workers |
Bangladesh | 20,000 | Government family welfare assistants |
15,000 | Government health assistants | |
47,000 | BRAC shasthya shebikas and shasthya kormis | |
Brazil | 265,000 | Community health agents |
Ethiopia | 40,000 | Health extension workers |
3,000,000 | Women’s Development Army volunteers | |
Ghana | 3,000 | Community health officers |
19,000 | Community health volunteers | |
India | 219,000 | Auxiliary nurse midwives/multipurpose health workers |
971,000 | Accredited social health activists | |
1,300,000 | Anganwadi workers | |
Indonesia | 500,000 | Kaders |
Iran | 61,000 | Behvarzs and their urban equivalents, moraghebe-salamats |
Kenya | 2,000 | Community health extension workers |
86,000 | Community health volunteers | |
Liberia | 3,800 | Community health assistants and community health service supervisors |
Madagascar | 20,000 | Agents communautaires |
20,000 | Agents communautaires de nutrition | |
Malawi | 17,000 | Health surveillance assistants and senior health surveillance assistants |
Mozambique | 5,000 | Agents polivalentes elementares |
Myanmar | 24,000 | Auxiliary midwives |
15,000 | Community health workers | |
15,000 | Malaria volunteers | |
6,000 | TB volunteers | |
Nepal | 52,000 | Female community health volunteers |
Niger | 2,000 | Agents de santé communautaire |
5,000 | Relais (volunteers) | |
Nigeria | 43,000 | Community health extension workers |
75,000 | Volunteer village health workers | |
Pakistan | 100,000 | Lady health workers |
Rwanda | 45,000 | Binômes and animatrices de santé maternelle |
Sierra Leone | 14,000 | Community health workers and peer supervisors |
South Africa | 33,000 | Community health workers |
70,000 | NGO-supported CHWs (mostly for HIV/AIDS work) | |
Tanzania | 12,000 | Community health workers |
41,000 | Volunteer community health workers | |
Thailand | 1,000,000 | Village health volunteers |
Uganda | 179,000 | Village health team members (volunteers) |
Zambia | 2,000 | Community health assistants |
Zimbabwe | 10,000 | Village health workers |