TB and COVID-19 Must Not Win!
We are committed to ending HIV, TB,Malaria and COVID-19. We call upon everyone to join our effort.
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End of Take Health in Your Hands-Take TB Prevention Personal Campaign Report
End of Take Health in Your Hands-Take TB Prevention Personal Campaign Report This was a joint 1 week advocacy campaign from 18th May to 24th May 2020 that was meant to highlight the 7 social practices and the skills behind necessary to end TB by 2030. We are grateful to all of you for supporting our work. Below is the agenda as it was outlined. We have also attached the Sunday Thematic activity to enable you understand that scope we dealt with. Monday: Statistics Tuesday: Testing Wednesday: Treatment Thursday: Adherence to Anti-TB medication taking Friday: Ensuring a negative sputum Saturday: Cough etiquette and cough consciousness Sunday: Home hygiene, Home Hygiene, Personal cleanliness and safety best practices The Home Hygiene, Personal cleanliness and safety best practices It is important to clean your bed, bedsheets and all clothing. Clean your premises regularly to reduce instances of re-infection. Having a cough or TB does not stop you from participat...
Social Distancing Should Not Bump Social Participation In UHC For Elimination Of TB By 2030
Re-adjust the way we go to grassroots to conduct health work and livelihood improvement activities. We were anticipating social distancing protocols in place. Diagnosis, prevention, testing, adherence and committed enablers are all about people. We have to identify needs, connect people to opportunities that make them productive. Self-preservation is key. We are a 400 strong Community Owned Resource Persons/Champions advancing quality life. We reach out to 120 communities and between August 2019 to present we have identified 177 TB cases and attached them to TB care. We provide contexts within which adherence and commitment are enshrined. This means keeping in touch and regular administrative meetings as well as reading widely on TB Prevention. We developed what we call our TB Prevention profile after deliberations of TB Prevention/Control Profile Planning Meetings. At the end of the day: Anyone, refugees, local communities and leaders will be directly involved as Champions or Com...
Key Populations (KP) Mobilize Against TB, Malaria, HIV, HPV And Hepatitis
At Most-At-Risk Populations' Society in Uganda (MARPS in Uganda) we have endeavoured to highlight the need to make prevention efforts known to Key Populations (KP). What are these "Prevention" efforts in this case? We are talking of TB, Malaria, HIV, HPV, Hepatitis and other infections such as Ebola. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ TB When we talk of KP, we are specifically talking of such a population group with higher prevalence of HIV, vulnerability and susceptibility to infections and people who have not always been targeted by mainstream services. In our case we are targeting: LGBTIPQQ, Sex-workers, Drug-users and Persons Living With HIV (PLHIV). We are calling upon all KP-led organisations to work with NAFOPHANU as they lead their TB Prevention Campaign. It runs from July to October 2019, and hey intend to link 30,000 People Living With HIV/AIDS to TB Treatment. The other names for TB Treatment are: Isoniazid Prevention Therapy (IPT) Prop...