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Community health workers, social mobilizers key to education, referrals, and care in pandemic Posted on Dec 18, 2020 In Sierra Leone, Partners In Health has trained 126 community health workers and a new group of 135 social mobilizers to provide care and education as part of its COVID-19 response. Photo by Jon Lascher / PIH. Community health workers (CHWs) prove to be the backbone of any health system, providing a link between households and health facilities. As Partners In Health (PIH) learned during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa from 2014 to 2016, this link is especially critical during an infectious disease outbreak. So as COVID-19 spread around the world, PIH wasted no time mobilizing the community-based teams in Kono District, Sierra Leone, where we support six health facilities and employ a cadre of CHWs dedicated to accompanying patients living with HIV and tuberculosis. ....