B2A11 Maasai Molar Cross Boundary Collaboration at...
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Maasai Molar was established in 2018 to provide oral healthcare in the Aitong region of Kenya. Through local partnerships ...
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Speaker Dr Rawlance Ndejjo shares experiences that they have had delivering a community cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme led by community health workers (CHWs) in 80 villages in two districts in Uganda.
In this programme, CHWs are trained to screen for CVD risk using non-laboratory interheart tool based on which they carry out lifestyle counselling for behaviour change. They are also able to refer community members to the health facility for further advise and follow them up. The aim of the programme is to improve knowledge and promote uptake of healthy lifestyle practices for CVD prevention. For the over two years duration of delivering the programme,he highlights the barriers, facilitators and lessons they have learnt from both the CHW and community perspectives.
The talk took place during Bridge2Aid's Global Remote and Rural Healthcare Conference November 2021.
Aims
This course aims to provide an overview of the experiences that the community health workers (CHW's) have had delivering a community cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme in 80 villages in two districts in Uganda.
Objectives
To share experiences, barriers, facilitators and lessons learnt from delivering a community cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme led by community health workers (CHWs) in 80 villages in two districts in Uganda.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this recorded webinar you will have understand the challenges, enablers and lessons that can be learnt when implementing a disease prevention programme, benefiting from the experiences of this project implementing a programme in rural Uganda.
