Hello everyone, Allow me to share a few commends to thank everyone trying different approaches to solving the health delivery problems in the WN region.
Just as a thought, Fund Rasing being such a giant animal like an elephant, Would it be very wise for groups with similar interests to form collisions to work together. This would minimize duplication of services, therefore, improve service delivery and strengthen our ability and capcity to privide a better service. Unity is a great strength we need to capitalize on. For instance , groups with similar interest in Health care, Education, Environment, etc can team up, reorganize themselves so that we do not appear to be stepping on our toes while dancing the song. I believe joint effort will empower us to do better work than spreading ourselves and scanty resources too thin. Alfred, your effort is surely a great direct approach to solving some serious ilnesses, which kill many people silently. There is a famous proverb that says knowldge is power. As all of us know, a large population in our society still believe in death caused by someone throwing POISON on you, not knowing that untreated Diabetes or High blood pressure causes strokes, and eventual death. I salute you all for your engineous ideas. We should continue to encourage ingenuity, creativity, imagination and problem solving skills in those who have passion for change JJ On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Entebbe community welcomes you (Christine Munduru) > 2. Re: West Nile health week (burua aldo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:13:33 +0300 > From: Christine Munduru <[email protected]> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: [WestNileNet] Entebbe community welcomes you > Message-ID: > <caol43uesmo7+xsv6sfs3zt-m4yx_chyaefnus7xvovr0tc0...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all, > This is to let you know that the West Nile Christian community within > Kampala and Entebbe has planned to celebrate Palm Sunday together in > Entebbe this coming Sunday. All preparations are ongoing, prayers will be > at Bugonga Catholic Church from 10am, followed by lots of fun and football > match between Entebbe youth and Luzira youth. You are cordially invited to > join the community for this very important occassion. To support this > occasion please contribute directly to Mr. Amori John, the chairman of West > Nile community Entebbe(0752697916), Mr. Awita Lodovic, the treasurer > Entebbe West Nile community(0712838028), Abima Steven, chairman > COC(0701908092). This is another occasion to bring us together, we hope to > see you there. > > Thanks > > Christine > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/private/westnilenet/attachments/20120327/dc13df37/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:35:20 +0100 (BST) > From: burua aldo <[email protected]> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] West Nile health week > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Christine and Vasco > > Thanks very much for the wonderful thoughts shared about the health week. > We have considered many of the issues/ suggestions raised and think this > being one of our first activities, presents us with opportunity to learn > more from this. > > I think the need > for partnership to strengthen service delivery to the community can not > be underscored. I personally participated in some of the community > sensitization activities of Science cafe andgot to appreciate the power of > the cafe to mobilize and engage large numbers of community members to take > up such services. I believe there is still room for us to collaborate > during the health week and subsequent activities. > > As you may notice, in addition to the core activities of screening for > cancer, HIV and hepatitis B, we shall also carry out routine check ups for > other health conditions as well, including diabetes and hypertension. This > requires adequate mobilization of the community but we still have an uphill > task to achieve this, given the short time left. > > I implore the local leaders to help in mobilization of the people to come > and take up the services that will be offered. > > Thank you, > Aldo > > > ________________________________ > From: Christine Munduru <[email protected]> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 26 March 2012, 18:25 > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] West Nile health week > > > Dear Aldo thanks for this initiative, such services are much needed by our > people. > ? > ?One by one we shall make the step. Vasco you have said it all and I dont > need to dilute it. I was talking to Hon Lematia over the weekend and she > shared what Aldo's group was going to do and she was?happy about it.Then > she said since this group is going to do screening awareness and coming > back, science cafe should then sustain the awareness, therefore such > partnership for the benefit of the people on ground would really be the > best. > She is one politician who got very excited about the activities of science > cafe and she felt that if leaders supported this idea, it could solve a > number of problems. > As people working towards the same thing, linkage would help to channel > activities very well. we would be interested in helping and working > together where we can.??Am sure a? number of our members belong?to this > group and this would not be a problem. > ? > Thanks > Christine > ? > > > ? > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 Band 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 > >>[email protected] > >>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/[email protected]/ > >> > >>The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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