Thursday, 22 March 2018

@AnyangNyongo #KisumuCountyDialogue #communityengagement @communityparticipation

 Interventions on disease  epidemics such as #HIV ,#TB and #Malaria can not be won inside treatment rooms. Advocacy platforms are not treatment rooms or traditional ceremonies. This are open spaces for community /Citizen engagement with policy holders/duty bearers.They provide opportunities for stocktaking on  accountability as well as update stakeholders,provide leadership,facilitate guidance and  formulate/improve policies from issues raised by affected,infected and concerned communities on crosscutting issues on how best they can be implemented
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Some medics have a mindset that by prescribing medicines they hold the key to reduce infections .It is very rare/difficult particularly in Africa getting the so called expert engaging people at community dialogue forums to give expert opinion.  .All diseases require a multifaceted//multidisciplinary  or all inclusive approach for interventions that are social in particular education on prevention strategies ,economic empowerment as well as political goodwill .

Taking HIV as an example #Biomedical interventions have not been so successful looking at new infections among young people. Taking a closer look new infections among young people/adolescence it more to do with none disclosure and the social environment in the house ,community and schools.This requires an all in campaign and need for a paradigm shift to accept new and innovative ideas In fact it has only continued to drain the much needed resources .Structural interventions work better using rights based approaches which are all inclusive than the know it all that are taking us nowhere.#giveinovationachance #dialogues give way to improve quality of life.

Thursday, 15 March 2018

TB in Kenya as at now source WHO

https://screenshots.firefox.com/vnL28NwYhOZGxaNE/extranet.who.int
The government promised our adolescents laptops and failed to deliver.roght now, They have been kept out of school for quite a long time and the laptops would have helped. in this desperate moments when the adolescents from Nyalenda B are advising the government on ways to make them learn are due to the fact that they have not been listened to leave alone providing them with spaces to explain their needs. Covid-19 is felt mostly by the communities but the goverment failed and are still failing in their promise to the next generation.

The UN High-Level Meeting on TB: The Countdown Continues

The UN High-Level Meeting on TB: The Countdown Continues