Table 1.
Names used for CHWs
| Name | Description of tasks | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) | Multiple tasks | India |
| Adherence Support Workers (ASWs) | Supporting antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence | Zambia |
| ‘Behvarz’ | Multiple tasks | Iran |
| Care Facilitators (CFs) | HIV home-based care | Zimbabwe |
| Community Antiretroviral therapy and Tuberculosis Treatment Supporters (CATTS) | HIV and tuberculosis (TB) treatment support | Uganda |
| Community Based Distributors (CBDs) | Providing injectable contraceptives in the community | Madagascar |
| Distribution of contraceptives | Guinea, India | |
| Community-Based Surveillance Volunteers (CBSVs) | Multiple tasks | Ghana |
| Community Drug Distributors (CDDs) | Distribution of ivermectin for onchocerciasis control | Ethiopia |
| Community Facilitators (CFs) | Multiple tasks | Indonesia |
| Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) | Working in child health or reproductive health and family planning | Madagascar |
| Community Health Workers (CHWs) | Multiple tasks | Various countries |
| Community home-based care workers | HIV-related prevention and care | South Africa |
| Community Medicine Distributors (CMDs) | Malaria treatment | Uganda |
| Community Reproductive Health Workers (CRHWs) | Promotion and distribution of family planning (methods) | Uganda |
| Community Volunteer Workers (CVWs) | Palliative home-based AIDS/cancer care | Uganda |
| Health Extension Workers (HEWs) | Multiple tasks | Ethiopia |
| Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) | Multiple tasks | Malawi |
| Lady health workers | Multiple tasks | Pakistan |
| Lay counsellors | HIV counselling | Various countries |
| Lay Health Workers (LHWs) | TB-related tasks | South Africa |
| Lay Health Workers (LHWs) (as synonym of CHWs) | Multiple tasks | Various countries |
| ‘Manzaneras’ | Multiple tasks | Bolivia |
| Maternal Health Workers (MHWs) | Promotion, prevention and curative tasks regarding maternal health | Myanmar |
| Peer educators | Reproductive health (promotion) | Tanzania |
| ‘Shasthya Shebikas’ | Multiple tasks | Bangladesh |
| Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) | Maternal and neonatal health related tasks, sometimes including delivery | Various countries |