Find examples of malaria prevention campaigns in Uganda or Africa
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We don't want to invent the wheel: let's first see what other people did and what we can learn from them.
We need examples of campains against malaria. These examples should show us what can be done to prevent malaria successfully.
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Dear neighbours,
Welcome to this action needed! :-)
This is one of the first posting in the village of Busukuma on NABUUR.COM. This village will focus on developing an awareness campaign on malaria prevention. Before we do anything, we want some good examples of ways to deal with this problem.
Do you know a good example? Please share it with us! The best way to do this is by editting thewiki that that is presented above. This is a collaborative document to which every neighbour can contribute.
Warm regards,
Pim Kantebeen
Facilitator and Online Community Manager of NABUUR.COM
THIS DOCUMENT CAN ADD TO YOUR INFORMATION ON AWARENESS AND ACTION PLAN. IT NEEDS TO READ IN DETAIL.
FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING
THE PLAN OF ACTION FOR MALARIA CONTROL AND PREVENTION
. ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN
PRIORITY AREAS APPROACHES AND ACTIVITIES
Organization and management of the health systems
Improve the managerial capacity of ministries of Health. Ensure the existence of health policies and integrated programmes for priority disease management and prevention. Develop core indicators to monitor and evaluate progress of health system performance.
Promote decentralization of the health system in order to improve access to services.
Build and strengthen capacity for health delivery at district and community levels.
Health system decentralization should match decentralization in other sectors.
Strengthen partnership with NGOs and the private sector to provide universal coverage and access with built in complementarity, consistency and continuum of care.
Build and strengthen partnerships with other sectors whose activities promote malaria transmission, by ensuring that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Health Risk Assessment (HRA) and Health Risk Management (HRM) of all development projects take place.
Broaden health financing options at community level so as to improve accessibility and affordability of malaria treatment and preventive measures.
Strengthen existing financial management system to ensure transparency, equity and probity in the utilization of funds at all levels.
Disease management Develop packages of interventions to address priority diseases (curative and prevention ) such as IMCI.
Ensure the allocation of necessary resources and facilitate collaboration of all members of the health team in the delivery of priority intervention packages.
Encourage and support community based programmes for the early diagnosis, prompt and adequate treatment of malaria.
Take appropriate measures to ensure that adequate treatment for severe malaria is available and affordable for the poorest section of the community.
Improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment by continuing training and supervision. Provide functioning laboratory facilities, appropriate equipment and essential drugs supply at referral centers.
Provide health education and communication to schools, work places, parents, especially mothers and persons caring for young children, on the recognition of malaria. Improve capacity for treatment at the home and for recognizing when to seek assistance for severe cases.
Establish guidelines for management of malaria and other priority diseases by health personnel at all levels.
Provision of anti-malarial drugs and malaria control related materials
* Develop mechanisms to ensure adequate, uninterrupted and prompt delivery of supplies, especially drugs, insecticides and other malaria control related materials.
Produce and update National drug policies for all priority diseases and ensure their implementation and review across the government and private sectors.
Promote rational prescribing of anti-malaria drugs in both the public and private sectors. Establish or strengthen an efficient regulatory authority that critically reviews all applications for drug registration and has a strong inspection and enforcement capacity.
Support and contribute to the establishment and/or maintenance of national and regional independent drug quality control laboratories
Disease prevention
Sensitize the population and promote preventive measures, such as house screening, ITN and other measures such as environmental management.
Support and encourage environmental measures taken by families and communities to reduce mosquito breeding sites.
Support and promote the formulation and use of traditional medicines for malaria control.
Support and promote the use of malaria preventive measures such as chemoprophylaxis and/ or presumptive intermittent treatment for pregnant women especially those in their first pregnancies.
Initiate strategies to prevent the re-introduction of malaria to malaria free areas.
Disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness and response
Strengthen health information system to ensure reliable reporting of malaria cases and deaths as part of the integrated disease surveillance system.
Provide such health information to health workers and policy makers for appropriate decision making.
Establish an alert mid effective epidemic preparedness and response capability to detect and contain any outbreak as rapidly as possible.
Establish an effective system to alert malaria control authorities and policy makers in other relevant sectors of new development projects, population movements, as well as environmental and climatic changes that could impact the malaria situation.
Sustainable control
Promote essential multisectoral action to ensure that projects and activities do not create vector breeding sites, or expose workers, families and communities to a risk of malaria. Enact and enforce appropriate legalisation and regulations to support control strategies.
Promote awareness among the business community on the negative economic impact of a continuing malaria problem and influence them to provide material and financial support to malaria control at all levels. Provide official recognition to those making sustained and substantial contribution.
Provide special incentives such as soft loans, exemption from excise, import and stiles taxes that would reduce the cost of materials and supplies for malaria control.
Establish and enforce appropriate legislation and regulations that promote health and prevent disease.
Build and strengthen partnerships with schools and work places to increase access to malaria treatment and preventive measures.
Human Resources Development
Provide continuing education opportunities for health services personnel and communities to enable them keep abreast with national policy and guidelines on malaria control.
Establish short, medium and long term human resources development programmme following capacity building needs assessment, for all levels of health services delivery.
Ensure that standards and guidelines for case management, disease prevention, epidemic surveillance, transmission and control are incorporated into pre-service and other training activities, and that they provide a basis for evaluating competencies acquired by trainees during training and work performance.
Regularly review the curriculum of schools of medicine, nursing, public health, allied sciences and other training institutions to ensure that they are up to date with regard to national policies and disease management standards.
Research including inter-disciplinary operational research
In collaboration with appropriate institutions, develop or strengthen the capacity and capability at all levels to conduct research including interdisciplinary operational research on issues of direct relevance to the control objectives, and ensure that results provide guidance for programme changes as necessary.
Exchange research results between countries of the region, particularly those sharing similar problems and interests.
Establish mechanisms for the development of priority research agenda and co-ordination at country level. Ensure that results are incorporated into control strategies.
Support multi center studies for the development of vaccines, new drugs and tools for malaria control.
Promote research and development of traditional medicine.
Hello Frank,tahnks for stepping out to help your village by stepping out.
Am good at writting plays,making videos and conducting community theatre in solving various problems the above mothods.If you think employing any of the above will give you a mileage in solving and running the campaighn,please let me know and i will send you the details.
Robert Musiitwa.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your suggestion. :-)
Writting plays,making videos and conducting community theatre sounds interesting.
In a later stage we may use volunteers for such activities. At this stage I wonder if you could describe any examples of writting plays,making videos and conducting community theatre for malaria awareness.
Warm regards,
Pim Kantebeen
Facilitator for Busukuma and Online Community Manager of NABUUR.COM
Dear Solomon,
Thanks for mentioning the Abuja Declaration. It is good that we see the big picture. We learn from this that malaria is a broad problem and that many actors must take their responsibility to roll back malaria. Policy makers have an important role to enable people like Frank Kaaya to work at the local level.
We think global but we act local. We are now looking for examples of Malaria campaigns in other places to serve as an example for the people in Busukuma. We know that there must be good examples. Let me know if you find some!
Warm regards,
Pim Kantebeen
Facilitator for Busukuma and Online Community Manager of NABUUR.COM
Hello Pim,
hope you are fine.In theatre,there is what is called Theatre for Development(TFD),this kind of method has proved to be the most effective way of communication.Here a facilitator with a group of experties invade an area,through music and dance,they bring together an audience because people will automatically gather when they see free entaternment.The facilitator wil then take over after enough gathering of people.At this point he/she will begin to ask them what problems they face as a community and several problems will be tabled.Out of the several issues mentioned,prioritisation will be done untill critical issues are singled out.Then out of the singled issues,different groups are formed to deal with different issues and the experties will lead the different groups for guidance puporses.So different skits will be formulated on different problems.When they are all ready,they get back together and one by one group will act to the rest of the community members.The skits are set such that they have a climax at apoint when the issue is contraversial.Then the facilitator or the expert in charge of the group will open up a debate.And before long,the community memebrs themselves wil come up with solutions.
In the case of malaria for example,the skit can end at appoint when a preginat mother doesn't sleep under abed net,has a bushy compound and leaves stangant water around her house.Then the facilitator will ask the members of the community whether she does the right thing.And soon you will hear them say NO,she need to sleep under a bed net,slash her copmpoud,sweep away stagant water etc.This will have been clearly shown in the play through a community healthy worker.
As for the videos/Films,they can be desighned in such a way that they are for the television programs or for community.And using a mobile film van,they can be shown to the community.
I have done some of these things in the community for example i was contracted one time by Commercial Marketing Strategy(cms) which was being funded by USAID to senstise the community about the importance of preginat women sleeping under bednets (smartnet) and how the husbands can cooperate during this time of preginancy.
I must have spoken alot Pim,let me stop here.
Take care.
Robert M.
Iam glad to see that robert and solomon you are contributing on my focus thanks keep it up.
Mr pim thank u for the great work you do for me also.
i wish you well.
THE ROLL BACK MALARIA PARTNERSHIP
Making the Fight Against Malaria Count
October 26, 2006—South African singer,
Yvonne Chaka Chaka – the woman known as the Princess of Africa – today called on African nations to ensure funds to fight malaria aren’t stolen or siphoned off.
Her call came at the launch of a public awareness campaign held at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC and organized by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, as part of a global effort to “Unite Against Malaria” – with the audience including more than 20 African ambassadors.
Malaria is Africa’s number one childhood killer. And as World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told the crowd, each year one million people – 90 percent of them children – were dying from malaria.
“Just stop for a minute and do the arithmetic. That works out to 3,000 people per day. It’s one World trade Centre per day and it’s a preventable disease.”
South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, performed as part of a global effort to “Unite Against Malaria" at World Bank headquarters in Washington DC.
Chaka Chaka, who is also UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador for Malaria, urged African nations and donors to deliver on their promises to fight malaria and to ensure there was transparency in the use of the funds.
“What I would like to see is all the governments making sure that there is total transparency – money is used accordingly and money does not go and buy good houses. – money does not go to the Swiss Bank. Money is not stolen. Money is put into good use,” she said.
Transparency in spending was a key theme when 28 African ambassadors and members of the Roll Back Malaria partnership met after the launch to discuss the next steps in the campaign against the disease.
“African countries in this initiative are not recipient countries. They are also actors and they also want to be part of the solution,” said the Executive Secretary of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Professor Awa Marie Coll-Seck.
Roll Back Malaria is an umbrella partnership and today’s event was part of a multilingual public awareness campaign sponsored by them.
The public awareness campaign features TV and radio messages that will be broadcast throughout Africa enlists top African soccer stars and entertainers, such as top international soccer stars as Chelsea striker Ivorian Didier Drogba and Marseille’s Wilson Oruma of Nigeria. They warn of the dangers of malaria and urge parents and communities to protect young children from the disease.
“This disease, malaria, is a terrible thing. Now, to make sure you don’t get it, a mosquito net is the most reassuring means of prevention,” Drogba’s message says.
“Protect yourselves against malaria. Protect your children, because they are the future of Africa.”
The Footballer vs. Malaria public service announcements will be showcased at the three-day United Nations Global Youth Leadership Summit in New York from October 29 to 31, and at the UN General Assembly Hall during the Youth United Against Malaria Concert on October 29.
Though no vaccine exists for malaria, the disease is preventable and treatable. Yet it’s thought to claim the life of an African child every 30 seconds.
The World Bank and other members of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership—the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)—have partnered with 20 African countries to combat malaria.
For its part, the Bank has stepped its own efforts against the disease in Africa through the $500 million Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa.
The program, launched a year ago, helps countries pay for such preventive measures as spraying inside homes and insecticide-treated bednets, as well as medications to prevent and treat malaria.
The goal is to cut Africa’s 850,000 malaria deaths in half by 2010, and in half again by 2015.
For his part, Wolfowitz said he was sometimes concerned malaria was overlooked, because it was not a disease prevalent in countries like the United States.
“Sometimes I feel as though malaria is a little bit of a neglected problem, because we don’t suffer from malaria here in the United States or in Europe or in other rich countries, “ he said. “But it’s just as much a plague for the people who suffer from it and those who survive malaria are often debilitated for life, miss valuable years of education and many many days at work. The costs are really enormous.
However he said it was possible to control malaria in Africa and “it must be done.”
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Dear neighbours,
Next Friday, I will meet with a group of students at Wageningen University. They will work an assignment "Develop an Awareness Campaign on Malaria Prevention" for Busukuma. The complete assignment is found here.
You will be informed on the progress! :-) :-)
Warm regards,
Pim Kantebeen
Facilitator for Busukuma and Online Community Manager of NABUUR.COM
Does this village need any medical supplies? I am in contact with an organization called Heart to Heart. I have been fowarded their form for request of medical supplies. I am willing to foward it on to anyone who will fill it out and send it in for this village.
Best wishes to all!! =o) Renee'
Is the mesh material used for making mosquito nets very expensive? Is it widely available in that area? I am just trying to get a general idea so that I can start doing some research around this topic. Do any of the women in the village know how to put these nettings together (sewing, etc.)?
Thanks so much and best wishes to you all!!
=o) Renee'
Hi Renee,
Thanks for your suggestion!
Mosquito nets and the material that these are made of are not that expensive. That does not mean that people have access to it. In agriculture, insect free mesh material is used as well. If we can protect strawberries in Europe, why can't we save people in Africa?
By the way: please note that the net should be made well: mosquitos are able to find the smallest holes. No room for errors.
Warm regards,
Pim Kantebeen
Facilitator for Busukuma and Online Community Manager of NABUUR.COM
Hello everyone,
Hereby I would like to introduce myself and the student group of Wageningen University in the Netherlands who is working on an action plan for malaria prevention and treatment in Busukuma. We are busy with research on the topic, including people at risk, different prevention and treatment methods, how to create awareness, factors responsible for certain behaviour, etc. From this research we are planning on making an action plan with certain recommendations for the malaria problem in Ugande. We enjoy reading the online discussions so far and get inspired by your many ideas. Keep up the good work! Hopefully many more members will join these discussions and help the villagers in Busukuma with a better life. I will keep in touch and give you frequent updates!
Greetings Judith
Hello Judith,
Welcome to the village of Busukuma on NABUUR.COM :-) We have had two great meetings "back screen". I wish you good luck with writing the action plan :-) :-)
Warm regards,
Pim Kantebeen
Facilitator for Busukuma and Online Community Manager of NABUUR.COM