Following the recent outbreak of COVID-19, a currently global pandemic that has caught many unprepared to manage, its important the community\u2019s response to the set standards by the ministry of health and national tasks force on COVID-19 is checked and information made clear to all in simple and understandable language so as to increase awareness of the situation and provoke the will to fight these pandemic as a team.<\/p>\n
Community sensitization drive involves driving around and through the local community while using \u00a0a public address system to give detailed information about COVID-19 and reinforcing the practice of hand hygiene, use of masks, establishment of household sanitary elements and access to health services in the health facilities among others.<\/p>\n
Stop overs are made in \u00a0densely populated areas\u00a0 during which information\u00a0 is passed through audio recordings and direct communication using microphones and mega phones, after which a question and answer session is done for each stop over point. Along the paths with evidently low\/ clustered households, local music with relevant information regarding COVID-19 was played to attract their attention.<\/p>\n
The health promotion village drive\u00a0 covered 17 villages in a period of 3 days in the month of May 2020\u00a0 reaching 3,715 people with Health messages related to the Prevention\u00a0 and stopping the spread of COVID-19<\/p>\n
Amref recorded some major achievements and these included;<\/p>\n
Health promotion drives are most successful in the dry weather but during the rainy season the activities are affected in different ways for example<\/p>\n
Some of the key findings\u00a0 we gathered was that atleast<\/p>\n
a). 2\/10 hand washing facilities have soap.<\/p>\n
b). 6\/10 hand washing facilities did not have water in them, they hurry to put water when the tusks force members reach.<\/p>\n
Recommendation<\/strong><\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n The communities have become increasingly vigilant however the attitude towards, social distancing and handwashing is worrying especially at sub village and household levels, trading centers and markets are catching up with the practice of hand washing but a lot more has to be done about social distancing as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the recent outbreak of COVID-19, a currently global pandemic that has caught many unprepared to manage, its important the community\u2019s response to the set standards by the ministry of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[863,153,867,859,783,866,854,394,853,865,860,862,855,864,868,770,861,856,857,858],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amref.org\/uganda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/An-Old-man-stops-the-amref-truck-that-is-desiminating-COVID-19-messages-e1593497075913.jpg?fit=995%2C552&ssl=1","yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n