Particularly when such strong feelings about side effects were expressed, there is a need for additional training of distributors not only on program logistics, but on community-specific topics that should be included in counseling, such as what side effects to expect and how to initiate a conversation about family planning within a household.
Members of the Chairman's Club and the President's Team, who have networks bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, already train new distributors and conduct seminars, and those elite categories give distributors a goal to strive for.
So instead it decided to train community-based distributors (CBDs), local women who would be able to counsel and prescribe contraceptives.
11, 12 In contrast to our findings, another study in Uganda that evaluated the impact of community medicine distributors trained to treat febrile children with AL and children with non-severe pneumonia with amoxicillin found only marginally increased use of this cadre of health worker by mothers in the community.
But time is short.The river-blindness programme that has been training all the community distributors is due to close in 2015.
Examples of this could include ensuring that the drug procurement and supply systems for NTD drugs are integrated with and support strengthened national drug procurement and supply systems, or integrating training of community drug distributors with training for community volunteers working on other health issues.
Our findings showed that the use of AL at home and community level is feasible with adequate training of community medicine distributors and caregivers.
Here in Katine, those VHTs specifically trained as community medicine distributors, have never received the anticipated medicines from the government.
I had to recruit other distributors and train them, and it was my first experience trying to understand how to motivate people.
He's also urging distributors to train employees to hawk CDs and explain how LidRock works.
