Table 1: The role of CHWs within the wBOT context of PHC re-engineering.

Objectives	Themes	Sub-Themes
The roles of CHWs	1. Community profiling	House to house visits House-hold members recording. Identification of physiological and social problems.
	2. Health education	Individual education and advice Community education and advice School learners’ education and advice.
	3. Support for DOT	Supervising the taking of TB and HIV treatments. Reporting challenges to the clinic.
	4. Basic home nursing care	Bathing clients discharged from hospital Cleaning households Cooking for the sick
	5. Referral	Social problems reported to social workers Physiological problems reported to the clinic nurses Referral forms
	6. Encourage drug adherence	General encouragement
	7. Tracing defaulters	Loss to follow-up tracing General encouragement Collection of treatments from clinics on clients’ behalf
	8. General assistance	Lack of basic needs such as Social grants, Houses, Food, Identity documents, and Birth certificates reported to appropriate stakeholders
	9. Monitoring	Social grant abuse reported to social workers