Searching for Common Ground on Incentives Packages for Community Workers and Volunteers in Zambia

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Searching for Common Ground on Incentives Packages for Community Workers and Volunteers in Zambia

Author(s):

Dr. Kanyanta Sunkutu, Dr. Namposya Nampanya-Serpell

Partners:

National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, Zambia

Topics: Community health workers, HIV/AIDS, Motivation/incentives, Service integration, Task shifting

Year:

2009

Region and Country: Zambia

Language:

English

This report reflects on an appropriate incentive package for the provision of care at the community level in Zambia. Human resources shortages, international migration, and a high burden of HIV contribute to an over-stretched public health system and the informal and unplanned delegation of service delivery tasks to volunteers operating at community level. Various incentives structures are applied to motivate CHWs.

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