PNC.[@R13] Globally, there has been a renewed interest in investing in CHWs programme for their potential impact on strengthening primary healthcare linkages for women and children. Several South Asian and African countries, including India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa, are investing in training and deploying cadres of CHWs to focus on maternal and child health.[@R13] Given their scale and the investments, it is important to assess the evidence on the effectiveness of these programme.

Our study evaluates the role of CHWs in retaining women in the maternity care continuum, using the example of the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) programme in India. The ASHA programme in India is the largest CHW programme, with nearly one million ASHA's operating nationally. The ASHA plays a critical role atand improvisation, but at the same time _really_ perfect at
straight reproduction. By the same token, musically creative people seemed to
experiment a lot, often doing a bunch of really interesting improvisations
without giving it much thought.

One of my music teachers was this way, it really was something else listening
to him just idly talking and playing around on the piano for entire lesson. On
the other hand, he was really bad at identifying individual notes but he could
re-play a melody that he heard just once without any problems, immediately
going off on several tangents and experimenting on it in different keys.

On a personal note, that was the point where I recognized that I was in
neither of these categories. I switched my art class to painting after a while
and stayed there ;)

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