“I Have to Push Him with a Wheelbarrow to the Clinic”: Community Health Workers' Roles, Needs, and Strategies to Improve HIV Care in Rural South Africa
Loeliger KB, Niccolai LM, Mtungwa LN, Moll A, Shenoi SV. “I Have to Push Him with a Wheelbarrow to the Clinic”: Community Health Workers' Roles, Needs, and Strategies to Improve HIV Care in Rural South Africa. AIDS Patient Care And STDs 2016, 30: 385-394. PMID: 27509239, PMCID: PMC4991585, DOI: 10.1089/apc.2016.0096.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCommunity health workersHIV careCommunity health worker rolesHIV care provisionAntiretroviral therapy initiationHIV treatment outcomesHealth worker rolesHealthcare systemBasic emergency careHIV/AIDS epidemicRural KwaZulu-NatalCommunity-based programsAdherence persistTherapy initiationAntiretroviral medicationsHIV prevalenceTreatment outcomesCHW rolesHealth workersHolistic careCentered careHIV resourcesEmergency careClinical practiceRural South Africa