ODI Global
Community health and traditional healers in Sierra Leone
Community health workers are supposed to report to the PHU. But our research suggests that the strength of connections between the two varies dramatically from one place to the next.
In some cases, for example, community health workers appear to be in far closer contact with the local organizations that trained them.
These weak relationships are of particular cause for concern, as is the limited training community health workers currently receive.
Community health and traditional healers in Sierra Leone
Community health workers are supposed to report to the PHU. But our research suggests that the strength of connections between the two varies dramatically from one place to the next.
In some cases, for example, community health workers appear to be in far closer contact with the local organizations that trained them.
These weak relationships are of particular cause for concern, as is the limited training community health workers currently receive.