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Cover. Gerald Lykes, a community health worker (CHW), hands out safer sex kits to people on the streets of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Like many CHWs, Lykes is a member of the community he targets and brings his experience as a person living with HIV into his encounters with those he meets. Growing evidence indicates that CHWs are effective in reaching marginalized populations, transmitting valuable knowledge and skills, empowering people to take actions to improve their personal and community health, and improving health outcomes. Another example of CHWs improving community and family health—this time through better control of asthma—begins on p652 of this issue. Now it is up to policymakers, government authorities, and payers of health services to fund CHW services for communities in need. (AP/Robert Mecea)

Cover concept by Aleisha Kropf, James Krieger, and Robert Sember.

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