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Community Health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in serving poor and rural populations. CHWs are typically in the best position to promote preventive care and convey important health information. CHWs can encourage prompt care-seeking behavior, and detect and refer those at risk for tuberculosis, malaria, and other important diseases. CHWs also have the potential to collect information that is needed at the national level about disease burden and barriers to adopting necessary health practices. CHWs, however, often receive relatively little medical training, have high turnover, and have limited opportunities to reinforce their knowledge once they begin working in the field. They typically lack effective tools required to maintain the longitudinal records required to provide truly effective care. Furthermore, CHWs are difficult to organize and manage for the very reason they are so effective: that they live in the community and only rarely have contact with their supervisors.

Dimagi and D-Tree international are leading CommCare, a mobile-phone based application enables community health workers (CWHs) to provide better, more efficient care while also enabling better supervision and coordination of community health programs