Improving community health worker treatment for malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia in Uganda through inSCALE community and mHealth innovations: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

Improving community health worker treatment for malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia in Uganda through inSCALE community and mHealth innovations: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

The inSCALE cluster randomised controlled trial in Uganda evaluated two interventions, mHealth and Village Health Clubs (VHCs) which aimed to improve Community Health Worker (CHW) treatment for malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia within the national Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) programm...

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Main Authors:	Karin Källander, Seyi Soremekun, Daniel Ll Strachan, Zelee Hill, Frida Kasteng, Edmound Kertho, Agnes Nanyonjo, Guus Ten Asbroek, Maureen Nakirunda, Patrick Lumumba, Godfrey Ayebale, Benson Bagorogoza, Anna Vassall, Sylvia Meek, James Tibenderana, Raghu Lingam, Betty Kirkwood
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-06-01
Series:	PLOS Digital Health
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000217

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