HRH Global Resource Center - Madagascar

Pregnancy Tests Increase Contraceptive Clients among Health Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Madagascar

Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:03:24 +0000

One challenge that community health workers face when they provide hormonal contraceptives to new clients is ruling out pregnancy. A randomized controlled trial in Madagascar found that offering the health workers pregnancy tests to distribute for free increases their number of new contraceptive clients. [from introduction]

Improving Health through the Social Quality Approach in 800 Communes in Madagascar

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:45:56 +0000

The social quality approach is a community-based approach for encouraging service recipients to get involved in the availability, use, and quality of health services. This report, based on Santenet2 project data, correlation analysis, and qualitative data collection, illustrates the implementation process, successes and essential components to the successful implementation of the social quality approach. [from executive summary]

Community Health Worker Incentives and Disincentives: How They Affect Motivation, Retention and Sustainability

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:35:31 +0000

This paper examines the experience with using various incentives to motivate and retain community health workers (CHWs) serving primarily as volunteers in child health and nutrition programs in developing countries.