Female Community Health Volunteers in Community-Based Health Programs of Nepal: Future Perspective

Nepal’s Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) program started in 1988. In the early years of program initiation, FCHVs were assigned to promote and distribute the family planning commodities such as condoms and pills. Over past three decades, FCHVs’ roles have gradually expanded beyond family p...

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Main Authors: Resham Bahadur Khatri, Shiva Raj Mishra, Vishnu Khanal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00181/full