Considerations for Linking South Africa’s Youth-Friendly Services to its Community Health Worker Programme


 
Language:

English

Authors:

Koon AD, Goudge J, Norris SA

Series/Journal Title:

South African Journal of Child Health

Volume:

8

Issue:

3

Pages:

3

Description:

In this article, we open the debate on whether or not South Africa’s Youth-friendly Services (YFS) programmes should be linked to community health worker (CHW) programmes. Both are important in South Africa’s efforts to re-engineer primary healthcare in the country. This article presents the pros and cons of linking the two programmes by incorporating YFS into the current list of CHW competencies. Also, we explore the alternative of training specialist CHWs to deliver YFS. [from abstract]

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Geographic Focus

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