Rajani R.Ved |

Rajani R.Ved

Rajani R.Ved is a medical doctor with public health training and is currently Advisor, Community Processes at a technical support agency to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Her interests are in health systems with a focus on primary health care and scaling up.

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India’s community health worker programme

ASHA is India’s community health worker. With nearly 900,000 women volunteers across the country, the programme has survived for a decade. Unlike earlier community health worker programmes, it shows little evidence of withering away in the near future. I would like to raise two issues in this piece: One, what made the ASHA sustain over this ...