Boost a new mobile resource for community health workers – Avert

Launching end of January 2020.

Are you working with community health workers? Are you looking for new ways to support and understand their ongoing learning? Then look no further than Boost.

Boost is a mobile phone app and website designed and developed in collaboration with community health workers and peer educators in Southern Africa.

Boost provides easy, up-to-date, visual and interactive materials on HIV and sexual health.

Boost is:

Register to be notified when Boost launches!

Boost is here to give community health workers the resources and support they need to provide high quality care to their clients and communities.

Its also a free tool for organisations working with community health workers to use to support their effectiveness, development and ongoing learning.

By the way when we use the term communityhealthworker we use it to cover individuals in a variety of different roles including peer educators, behaviour change facilitators, community mobilisers,home-based care givers and many, many more.

Here are just some of the features of Boost:

A Facebook group is also available as a companion to Boost.

Register your organisation to access support and extra features

If you register with us, we can include your organisation in the apps drop down organisational menu. This means we can segment the data that is automatically collected by the app, providing your organisation with insights on how often the app is being used, by how many of your community health workers, and what content they find most helpful.

Here are some other benefits that organisations have already identified:

Communityhealth workers support millions of people living with, or at risk of HIV in Southern Africa. They are often peoples first point of contact with the health system.

To play an effective role, communityhealth workers needaccess to up-to-date,clear, accurate and user-friendly information on HIV and AIDS. At the moment there are few ways for communityhealth workers to get this, and many still rely on word of mouth for new information. Boost will be a way of providing health workers with the up-to-date and accessible information and materials that they need.

Boost ultimately aims to improve communityhealth workers ability and effectiveness.

Boost will be free for anyone to use when it launches at the end of January 2020. If you are in Southern Africa and would like to use Boost as an organisational tool for your communityhealth workers then register below. Registering will enable data segmentation for your organisation, and give you access to anonymised data on how Boost is being used by your cohort of communityhealth workers.

By registering you can also send any further questions you have on Boost.

Register now!

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Boost a new mobile resource for community health workers - Avert