Performance of volunteer community health workers in implementing home-fortification interventions in Bangladesh: A qualitative investigation.

Performance of volunteer community health workers in implementing home-fortification interventions in Bangladesh: A qualitative investigation.

<h4>Introduction</h4>BRAC, an international development organisation based in Bangladesh, uses female volunteer community health workers called Shasthya Shebika (SS), who receive small incentives to implement its home-fortification interventions at the community level. This paper examine...

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Main Authors:	Haribondhu Sarma, Ishrat Jabeen, Sharmin Khan Luies, Md Fakhar Uddin, Tahmeed Ahmed, Thomas J Bossert, Cathy Banwell
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:	PLoS ONE
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230709

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