Male sex workers, MSM and female sex workers were pro-actively targeted in outreach activities directed at these different groups.
Outreach workers actively market the study in each of the zones to recruit participants.
Study participants were recruited by CHWs using non-probability targeted sampling, an approach where field-based outreach workers actively recruit participants from identified geographic areas and populations of interest based on a prior ethnographic assessment.
This prevention/early intervention ethos is extended to intraoperative circulatory optimization, and to outreach teams actively scouring the surgical and medical wards for patients with early signs/symptoms of deterioration, as well as regular follow-up of those discharged from critical care.
School outreach is very actively pursued.
A further interesting feature in Sweden is the free outreach system to actively seek out those with highest need for oral health care implemented since 1999.
Its goal is to transform the dynamics of rural health care service delivery from community health care providers who passively wait for patients into outreach workers who actively seek patients in communities and their homes, also known as doorstep services.
In order to improve outcomes, future peer outreach initiatives might consider actively discussing with potential donors whose next of kin were not aware why this was the case and encouraging and supporting potential donors to have this discussion.
The first was active outreach.
I find it heartening that the number of researchers actively engaging in outreach appears to be growing and the very idea of science communication is seen as a positive.
