Nigeria: Preparedness and response to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) at primary healthcare and community level - training manual for community volunteers

Community health workers – Community Health Influencers Promoter and Services (CHIPS)

Personnel, Voluntary Community Mobilizers (VCMs), Community Oriented Resource

Persons (CORPS), etc. and other community structures such as the Patent and Proprietary

Medicine Vendors (PPMVs), Ward Development Committees (WDCs) and traditional and

religious leaders have critical roles to play in the national COVID-19 response. Being closest

to the community, these key resource persons are better placed to promote behaviours and

practices that prevent the transmission of the disease at household and community level.

As frontline health care providers, they also need to know how to ensure that the work they

do and the services they provide do not increase the risk of transmission of the disease.

To this end, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency has developed this short

training workshop for community health workers, Ward Development Community

Members, Patent and Proprietary Medicine vendors (PPMVs) and other key community

stakeholders to enhance their capacity to contribute to the national response to the

pandemic.