Table 1.

Overview of the major global CHW interventions.

Name of CHW	Program	Country	Role
Agentes Comunitários de Saúde (59)	Programa de Agentes Comunitários de Saúde (PACS)	Brazil	The major role of them is to undertake home visits to disseminate health information, provide essential health care services, and establish referral to primary care when required.
Sasthya Sebika and Sasthya Kormi (56)	BRAC Health Nutrition and Population Programme	Bangladesh	As part of BRAC Health initiatives SSs and SKs perform regular home visits to provide maternal and child health care services such as antenatal, natal and post-natal care services, essential health care services common ailments, health education and so forth.
FCH (61)	Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) program	Nepal	The primary roles of FHVs are health promotion, delivering health services such as polio campaign, family planning, referral to primary care, data collection etc. through community mobilization.
LHW (60)	Lady Health Worker Program (LHWP)	Pakistan	LHWs provides reproductive health services such as family planning, maternal and child health services to the doorstep of the people.
CHW (58)	Living Goods	Kenya	CHWs are assigned to a selected number of households and involved in case management of diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, pregnancy and newborn care. They undertake regular home visits and sell some products to get some money.
ASHA worker (57)	Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) program	India	Of many roles the ASHA workers play, the major initiatives include regular home visits to promote reproductive and child health care services to the doorstep of the marginalized people.