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Table 2 Summary settings, actors and roles

From: Integrating community health assistant-driven sexual and reproductive health services in the community health system in Nyimba district in Zambia: mapping key actors, points of integration, and conditions shaping the process

Spaces or settings

Actors collaborating with CHAs

SRH Roles

Government controlled settings

- Nurses

- EHTs

- Support staff

- SMAGs

- NHCs

- delivering babies in some emergency cases though this is not a part of their training and scope of work

- promoting and providing family planning

- HIV / STI counselling, testing and promoting ART adherence

- male circumcision

- delivering prenatal and postnatal services

- sensitisation against early pregnancy and marriage

Family controlled settings

- CBDs

- SMAGs

- promoting early booking for antenatal

- promoting and providing family planning

- HIV counselling, testing and promoting ART adherence

Community public space

- CHWs

- NHCs

- Traditional leaders

- Councillors and WDC chairperson

- Religious leaders

- promoting early booking for antenatal

- promoting and providing family planning

- promoting HIV/ STI counselling, testing and promoting ART adherence

- sensitisation against early pregnancy and marriage

Community events

- Traditional leaders

- Captains of netball and football teams

- CHWs

- promoting early booking for antenatal

- promoting and providing family planning

- promoting HIV/ STI counselling, testing and promoting ART adherence

- sensitisation against early pregnancy and marriage