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Community Health Extension Workers National Strategy (2018- 2022)
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Description
The goal of the strategy is to establish and strengthen the community health system as part of the larger national health system, in order to bring services closer to the community and ensure equitable distribution of community and household-centred health care services. The general objective is to adequately and competently train and launch a cadre of CHEWs to deliver quality, preventive, promotive, and selected basic curative health services at the community level