Alison Swartz

TL;DR: Lay health workers in high income countries mainly offered promotion, counselling and support, while in low and middle income countries, LHWs offered similar services but sometimes also distributed supplements, contraceptives and other products, and diagnosed and treated children with common childhood diseases.

TL;DR: New interventions are emerging to address high levels of HIV risk in the key population of young women in southern Africa, including structural interventions, biomedical prevention such as PrEP, and combined HIV prevention approaches.

TL;DR: It is suggested that treatment decision making is a dynamic process characterised by uncertainty and debate, experimentation with multiple and simultaneous treatments, and shifting interpretations of the illness and treatment options, with household decision making hinging on social negotiations with a broad variety of actors and influenced by control over financial resources.

TL;DR: The qualitative evidence base is still small, but that the available evidence points to the overall acceptability of self-administration of medical abortion, and particular considerations when offering self-management options are highlighted.

TL;DR: This paper explored the ways that community health workers who work for these organisations understand and speak about their involvement in carework as volunteers, employees or managers of community-based care organisations. But they also described forms of material or economic benefits of providing carework, but many were concerned that these might be seen as existing in tension with more socially accepted, altruisti...