Dear Brother Aldo, Congratulations to you and your team for this wonderful initiative. This is a very important project which we should all support. I know how difficult it is to organize such an initiative without adequate resources. I have looked through your concept document and I think the ideas in the document are excellent. What I would suggest is for you to involve team members who are going to actively participate in taking this project to the people on the ground in the district. I am saying this because we have quite a number of people who like to talk or write but to physically participate in these issues tend to not show up. You need to have a group of determined people who will push with you even when things get difficult. I experienced this first hand during the Nile Care Eye Project last November. All the issues you have included in the document are very serious issues in our region and people need to be educated so that they can take care of themselves since medical infrastructure in our region is very poor. Among some of the issues which I believe your team should seriously take into consideration is High blood pressure and diabetes which I believe have become the silent killer diseases in our region which the people need to be aware of or educated about. I would suggest that since the time frame for the project is in a few weeks the radio campaign should start immediately so that as many people as possible should be informed. I think the youth should be very much encouraged to attend this screening as much as the adults. Awareness and early detection goes a long way where health infrastructure is poor. In future you may want to work with science cafe to reach the local communities as you personally witnessed the power of science cafe when you officially inaugurated in Arua last April. I will very much look forward to hear the good news about the people you will reach during that week. Wish you every success in this endeavour.
Thanks again for this initiative, Vasco On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM, burua aldo <burua...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dear friends > West Nile Forum for Health and Development (WEFHAD) is partnering with > Uganda Cancer Institute and other development partners in the region to > increase awareness and early detection of common cancers as well as > infectious diseases that pose significant health burden to our people. The > exercise will be carried out in conjunction with the district health > authorities and health facilities in Arua and Maracha districts during the > Easter week, from 2nd to 5th April 2012. > The overall goal of the health week is to increase the community’s > knowledge and promote early detection of cancers of the breast and cervix > through awareness raising and offering screening services for these > cancers, in addition to other common cancers. The people will also be > sensitized and screened on common infectious diseases, particularly HIV and > hepatitis B and those identified with the health conditions will be > linked to appropriate care. **** > WEFHAD hopes to conduct similar activities in other districts in the > region but is faced with challenges in mobilizing resources for successful > implementation of the planned activities. > As a strategy to raise funds to support this activity, WEFHAD has printed > T-shirts and hopes to sell them to members and the public. We encourage > every one, particularly the people and friends of West Nile to support this > activity as it presents a rare opportunity, particularly for our mothers > and sisters to access screening services and early detection of the fatal > cancers of the breast and cervix. > Statistics show that only 45% of breast cancer patients and 18% of > cervical cancer patients survive 5 years after diagnosis. This is > attributed to late diagnosis due to ignorance of the disease and lack of > access to facilities for diagnosis and treatment. We hope this activity > will help us advocate for establishment of routine program for screening > and vaccination against cervical cancer as well as establishing of > facilities for managing these conditions within the region. > Please find the attached concept note for more details > Kind regards, > Aldo Burua > (Chair COC-WEFHAD) > Tel. 0392-961 430 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > WestNileNet@kym.net > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/westnilenet@kym.net/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > >
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