From 2015 through 2018, Amani has trained and then employed 500 community health workers who conduct mass drug administration against three main diseases (Soil Transmitted Helminths, affecting 90% of the population; Lymphatic Filariasis, affecting 13% of the population; and Schistosomiasis, affecting 9% of the population) to more than 230,000 people every six months in Idjwi.
Amani has recruited another set of 68 community health workers for outreach to the community. They have four main roles: (i) identifying sick and at-risk persons within the service area and providing initial response (basic treatment an/or escalation to the hospital); (ii) educating community members about best health practices (i.e., proper hygiene, prenatal and postnatal care, encouraging immunizations, bed-net distribution and usage, sexually transmitted diseases, hydration and salts for diarrhea); (iii) capturing data about health issues on Idjwi; and (iv) broadly dispensing specific medications for certain neglected tropical diseases such as intestinal worms.
