Dispossession and Voluntarism: The Dynamics of Community Health Workers in Kenya
Podcast on The Kenyanist
African Governments, including Kenya, are attempting to address the problem of manpower and financing by adopting the use of Community Health Workers, usually working as volunteers. Yet, this complicates things further, as health is a devolved function under the 2010 Constitution, and county governments claim they have no funding for community health. Kathy speaks to Kamau Wairuri on the history of unpaid community health labour, with particular reference to northern Kenya where such labour is borne of long-term dispossession.
