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Home Visiting by Community Health Workers Improves Outcomes for Mothers-Infants Over Three Years

This presentation reviews a cluster randomized controlled trial of 24 neighborhoods near Cape Town with community health workers providing 3 years of intervention to assist mothers and infants. Families receiving CHW support had reduced maternal depression and increased child cognition. Presented during the "Children and HIV: Start Early, Start Now! – Integrated Interventions for Young Children Born into HIV-affected Families” symposium in Melbourne, Australia in July 2014.

Author(s): 
Mark Tomlinson, Sarah Skeen, Ingrid le Roux, Mary Jane Rotherham-Borus, Sandahl Nelson, Kwanie Mbewu
Year of Publication: 
2014
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Resource Type: 
Presentation
Language: 
English
Section: 
Resource Database