Evaluating the impact of a community health worker programme on non-communicable disease malnutrition tuberculosis family planning and antenatal care in Neno Malawi: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

摘要

IntroductionThis protocol concerns the implementation and evaluation of an intervention designed to realign the existing cadre of community health workers (CHWs) in Neno district, Malawi to better support the care needs of the clients they serve. The proposed intervention is a ‘Household Model’ where CHWs will be reassigned to households, rather than to specific patients with HIV and/or tuberculosis (TB).