The common facilitating factors that emerged across the study sites included the policy of removal of user-fees (100%), the increasing level of community sensitization on health issues (90%), the prohibition of TBAs from undertaking deliveries, which had directly pushed some women to deliver at health facilities (75%), and the delivery of some services at community level.
Improvements in the rate of redemption can be achieved through community sensitization on the importance of seeking care, accrediting more facilities and the inclusion of public health facilities in the programme.
Increasing the rate of redemption can be enhanced through community sensitization on the importance of seeking care.
1995: National election of 12,000 volunteer community health workers (CHWs), with the initial task of community sensitization on preventive measures such as immunization, hygiene, and nutrition.
Other client-level factors that hinder access to facility deliveries can be addressed through increased community sensitization on the importance of seeking care.
This could be achieved through re-orienting HIV services to adequately meet the SRH needs of clients transitioning from childhood to adulthood, enhancing provider capacity through pre- and in-service training in SRH counselling for HIV-positive adolescents, and community sensitization on the SRH needs of young people living with HIV.
Most [70.3%% (194/276)] of the respondents who accessed HIV care services reported that community sensitization on HIV/AIDS was the kind of support they received from their communities.
Due to the fact that the people were initially unaware of any opportunity to contribute to the research activities in their community and often believed the researchers were merely using the community as a resource, we viewed community sensitization on the importance and value of the CAB as the first and most critical step.
The study team did not perform community sensitization to raise awareness of the new iCCM models that were being evaluated in the CMS catchment area before study initiation.
They suggested continuous education to debunk myths about HIV, involvement of female partners (of fishermen), and community sensitization to encourage people to accept those taking FTC/TDF as PrEP.
