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Tuberculosis Education Campaign Project
Created by Aephar on Jun , 16 2009 at 11H 13min 52 sec
last Modified Jun , 16 2009 at 11H 13min 52 sec
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The key actors of the project are the students of National University of Rwanda especially Pharmaceutical students’ who have facilitated in the implementation and preparation of that sensitization education campaign in the NUR communities and volunteered during the morning education campaign at the NUR Health center, University Teaching hospital and Kabutare Hospital. On 24th March, 2009 AEPHAR have organized the sensitization campaign education project on Tuberculosis in the National University of Rwanda where the volunteers have been used loud speakers in order to attract many university students as well as distribution of leaflets will be used at home for their colleagues and conducted a broadcasting emission program on Radio salus at 21:00 of the same day in order to inform all the population of Rwanda about Tuberculosis and invite them to take action to invite their neighborhoods to talk about Tuberculosis.
Opening speech of the President of AEPHAR, in the Anti Tuberculosis sensitization campaign in the National University of Rwanda (NUR) on 24th March, 2009
After the successfully implementation of the anti Tuberculosis sensitization we have started the preparation of education project and making contacts at the NUR Health center, University Teaching hospital and Kabutare hospital and before the implementation of that education project we have organized a one day workshop in order to have the good and the same understanding on the activities will be done during that education project with one Pharmacy students who is doing a research on Tuberculosis.
Education sessions at Butare teaching hospital and NUR health center respectively.
After the implementation of that project we have conducted the monitoring and evaluation in the area where the project have been implemented and organizing the closing event where we have invited different guests from our faculty, university leaders, administration of the hospitals where the project have been implemented and the leaders of university students union association during the closing ceremony where all the guests honor have been appreciated the activities have been done and recommended to organize the monthly sensitization campaign in the National University of Rwanda in order to meet with many people.
Topics have been presented to those Hospitals and health center:
- Tuberculosis in general, prevention, treatment, symptoms and conclusion to be taken
- Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
- Treatment of TB and consequences to the people who did not take it regular
- The role of people and health workers to fight against TB
- Statistics of TB in the world and in Rwanda especially
- TB and HIV relationship
- TB and its consequences to the children under five years
- Impacts of TB in the society of many people
- Who can be contracted by TB? What can you do if you have been contracted by TB? What will you do if your neighbor have been contracted by TB or if have cough during three weeks?
- TB is it curable or not? What is the difference between simple TB and Multidrug resistant TB
Objectives of that education project
Rwanda Pharmaceutical Students’ Association has the following main objectives:
- To Share our expertise with a group or organization to stop T.B
- To invite people from the community to discuss what they can do to stop TB.
- To Share success stories on fighting TB and encourage the University students and teacher to make research on stopping T.B
- To reduce the T.B contamination in the communities and Multidrug-resistant TB in the hospitals
- To sensitize patients to take drugs as they have been given by their doctors
- To reduce TB in university students’ community
- To get the advanced knowledge about Tuberculosis to our participants members
At the end of this education project according to the evaluation of that project where all participants volunteers have got the questionnaire to be completed, people who was attending the education session and the nurses and doctors at the above health center and hospitals; we have seen that the above objectives have been completed successfully but those kind of teaching education sessions are very needed for better inform all the people on public health.
Conclusion and Recommendation
That project have been achieved and implemented successfully, all the participants in that project such as AEPHAR members who saved as volunteer in that project, Doctors and nurses of Kabutare and CHUB hospitals and NUR health center, the office of Dean of students have been appreciated that project and asked us to extend it if possible and continue to sensitize University Students on Tuberculosis prevention and treatment. The university students have a big role to play for improving public health and prevent the infectious diseases in their living communities; they have to be empowered to take action to make their role to implement that kind of projects.
Given the good impacts of sensitization activities in the improvement of the public health services and on behavior change according to the infectious diseases we are willing to continue to implement many projects in public health as well as to extend to the big projects in the villages to get a big number of people in the country. During the closing ceremony all the guests have recommended us to continue that project in the University community and hole the District of Huye in order to approach many people.
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