By Kuda Pembere and Rebeccah Zindati The creation of a dedicated Primary Health Care and Community Health Directorate has been described as a significant step toward improving accountability, coordination, and service delivery for community health worker (CHW) programming in Zimbabwe. Currently, the Department of Community Health is housed under the Nursing Services Directorate in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, a structure that stakeholders say limits oversight of CHWs despite their central role in delivering healthcare at the grassroots level. The proposal to establish the directorate was discussed at…
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