1000 days communication initiative to fight against child stunting | In an effort to accelerate the elimination of stunting among children, Ministry of Health and UNICEF created a series of posters, booklet, radio spot and videos to educate and inform families and communities. The five pillars of ke...y behaviors are breastfeeding, timely initiation of complementary feeding with balance diet, balanced diet for pregnant women, immunizations and handwashing.
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Swahili version of Focused Antenatal Care (FANC) Community Education.
Translation and voice over thanks to Alex Mureithi and Zawadi Machibya and their colleagues at the BBC Swahili Service.
Women and husbands need to understand not only the importance of antenatal care and how it may help prevent... potentially fatal problems in both mother and child, but also need to understand what it entails and what to expect, so as to encourage them to attend and make provision for this.
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This film is the Bemba version of our English film: Food for Life - What and when to feed your child (6 - 24 months)
This film is the Bemba version of our English film: Is your child sick - identifying a sick child (pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria)
For many years, Community Health Care Workers (CHWs) in Tanzania and Africa in general have played significant role in community health promotion. Their specific roles have been changing from time to time. However, their key roles have over time included giving health education and dissemination of ...health information to communities, invariably moving on to include other services such as offering curative services and conducting community surveys. Deployment of CHWs has mainly been a response to the severe shortage of the human resource for health in most African countries due to brain drain for various reasons that include unattractive terms and conditions of employment. On the other hand the human resources for health (HRH) is a result of positive growing demand for health services, a situation confronted by inadequate supply of trained health personnel from training institutions to meet the demand.
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As part of Tanzania's program to increase infection prevention and control throughout the country, an SBCC strategy was developed. Part of this strategy was the development of a handwashing poster for display.
Guidance book about implementation of health crisis response for school children in Indonesia in facing earthquake as natural disaster
Exessed 15.09.2020
"Médiaterre est aujourd'hui le premier réseau d'information francophone sur le développement durable. Son objectif est de faciliter la diffusion de l'actualité internationale du développement durable en français . L'information, produite par de nombreux acteurs du Nord et... du Sud, est modérée par des experts sur leurs thématiques de prédilection. Cette actualité est répercutée sur les sites portail géographiques et thématiques de Médiaterre. Les dernières évolutions du système d'information visent le développement de services personnalisés, l'interactivité entre partenaires du réseau et une plus grande accessibilité."
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Accessed 26 June 2015
A prepared Community is a safe Community