Textbox 3.

Community embeddedness

Community participation – uniting people with common needs to take more responsibilities in the healthcare of their own and their peers	Q1 – Now that we are taught to be together, united, we care for one another, we became one head, one body and one heart, because everything we do is the same. – CAG member during FGD with CAG member from rural areas Q2 – We have to share with the patients their needs and their desires, listen more to them, leave more openness for CAG members to participate in their day-to-day healthcare, […] they are considered as partners of the national health system […] leave the patients to talk for themselves and take decision in relation to their day-to-day lives, their health, they have to participate and have to have the space to participate … – IDI with MSF implementer
Leadership – patients are considered as partners in healthcare	Q3 – … everything changed, I'm well known in the area, because I'm in charge of patients, whenever a person is sick, can be a child, mother, father, they come to my house, they are told to come to my house, when I see that this illness has nothing to do with ours I accompany them to the hospital. – Group leader during FGD with group leaders from semi-urban areas Q4 – The community has to take an active role in the fight to prevent diseases in the community … they could form committees or associations in the community to monitor and active participate in the health related issues for prevention of STI, malaria, etc … – IDI with Provincial health authority
Some alarming voices on the limitations of task shifting	Q5 – … members cannot be turned into mini-nurses overnight. – IDI with District health authority