Malawi Network of Community Health Workers

The Malawi Network of Community Health Workers is a national umbrella network organization of over 15, 000 Community Health Workers in Malawi delivering community level health services in Malawi where 84% of the Malawi population lives, which includes individual community health workers that are Government- recruited Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs), Senior Health Surveillance Assistants (SHSAs), Community Health Nurses (CHNs), Community Midwife Assistants (CMA), and Assistant Environmental Health Officers (AEHOs)), 12, 000 plus NGO-recruited Community Health Workers, an active network of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), various community health governance committees, over 72 organizations working in community health both local and international as well as interested individuals in community health in Malawi.