Editorial: Drawing open the curtain on home-based intervention

Abstract

Providing facility-based care to the billions of people living in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is a challenge due to the multitude of barriers people face in accessing these sites. Unaffordable transportation costs, limited child care options, poor health and inconsistent staffing and services of facilities are just some of the many reasons facility-based primary health care interventions struggle to recruit and retain patients in efficacious programs (1). Home-based interventions have been shown to be a viable alternative across a broad range of health initiatives including infectious disease (e.g., HIV screening), mental health (e.g., postpartum depression) and noncommunicable disease risk reduction and education (e.g., obesity and nutrition) interventions (2-4).