Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience – capitalizing on new opportunities | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Review Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa learning from experience - capitalizing on new opportunities Katharina Hermann 1 Wim Van Damme1 George W Pariyo2 Erik Schouten3 4 Yibeltal Assefa5 Anna Cirera6 and William Massavon7 Address institute of Tropical Medicine Department of Public Health Antwerp Belgium 2School of Public Health Makerere University Kampala Uganda 3Department of HIV and AIDS Ministry of Health Lilongwe Malawi 4Management Sciences for Health Lilongwe Malawi 5Federal HIV AIDS Prevention and Control Office Ministry of Health Addis Ababa Ethiopia 6Independent consultant Barcelona Spain and 7Nsambya Hospital Kampala Uganda Email Katharina Hermann - khermann@ Wim Van Damme - wvdamme@ George W Pariyo - gpariyo@ Erik Schouten - eschouten@ Yibeltal Assefa - yibeltalassefa@ Anna Cirera - aminacirera@ William Massavon - w_massavon@ Corresponding author Published 9 April 2009 Received 25 November 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 31 doi 1478-4491-7-31 Accepted 9 April 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 3 1 2009 Hermann et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Low-income countries with high HIV AIDS burdens in sub-Saharan Africa must deal with severe shortages of qualified human resources for health. This situation has triggered the renewed interest in community health workers as they may play an important role in scaling-up antiretroviral treatment for HIV AIDS by taking over a number of tasks from the professional health workers. Currently a wide variety of community health workers are active in many .
