TABLE 1.

Community health workers’ roles and responsibilities.

Health promotion approaches	Activities
Medical approach	Administer basic first aid Case findings and referrals Measure blood pressures, weights and heights Administer family planning pills
Behaviour change approach	Distributing condoms to promote practice of safe sex
Educational approach	Door-to-door education Health education in public gatherings and schools
Empowerment approach	Increasing access to food through demonstration of construction of key hole gardens Establishing support groups for ART patients, to help each other with the collection of medication refills from the facility Door-to-door education Health education in public gatherings and schools
Social change approach	Lead support groups Advocacy for alleviation of poverty and lack of water

ART, antiretroviral therapy.