Physical Health Uganda Project #6595

Advocacy for 8000 TB affected persons in Mubende.

by SORAK Development Agency(SDA)

Project Report | Jun 22, 2012
Hope restored among the once TB underserved Souls

By Muhammad Kyeyune | Executive Director

With the support of our esteem individual donors, SORAK has been able to engage with the district leadership as well as monitoring TB/HIV service delivery among community based health units. The result of this has been the Prioritization of TB/HIV activities in the district operational plan. This project tasks district policy makers and planners into targeting the improvement of TB/HIV in the district. The District and community health workers reveal that the contribution from SORAK still remain significant more especially among underserved communities. This is where health workers find it difficult to serve due to lack of basic social amenities in such localities.

Our effort with the support of GlobalGiving partners have yielded results to the extent that all the Health Centre-III, in the four project sub counties have been stocked with recently acquired laboratory equipment and staff. Communities are starting to trickle in for TB/HIV screening. SORAK will thereafter assess all found postive with TB/HIV in order to deliver home based care to needy widows and orphans.

Health workers in these units however recommended SORAK’s support for outreaches. This is because of the fact that these health facilities were still far from the majority of poor and highly stigmatized remote area resident communities.

We are therefore very grateful to our donors for the support so far provided.This has brought back to life to the once TB infected and affected souls deep down among the under served last villages.

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May -June 2012 report (PDF)

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Feb 21, 2012
TB managment Improves in Mubende

By Muhammad Kyeyune | Executive Director

Advocating for TB in Mubende Improved care for hospitalized TB/HIV patients This project involved advocacy, information dissemination on the fate of persons affected by TB/HIV. These activities involved the active participation of health workers constantly interacting with TB/HIV patients as well as district administrators. Each of these category stakeholders was able to appreciate each other's concerns, views and challenges. An interaction with selected TB survivors and a group of women accessing ARVs from government health facilities noted a remarkable improvement in the care now being extended to TB/HIV patients. "Before this project gave us an opportunity to voice our problems on the radio, health workers used to neglect us and sometimes abusing, it was worse to pregnant mothers who sought ARVs. They would back at us as if acquiring HIV/AIDS would mean condemning us to having no children. Your project has assisted us a lot, but please continue with the effort and spirit especially among our fellow other rural women where you have not yet reached" asserted a focus group participant-Madudu sub-county . Equally health workers state that their relationship with patients has improved because; "most of the TB/HIV patients now come freely and are always keen at not faulting treatment instructions. Perhaps it is due to the awareness created by SORAK asserted, 'Nursing assistant Kitenga Health centre III" Strengthened TB DOTs The review team interacted with both the district TB focal person and selected volunteers. They all recommended the projects support to supervision of DOTs. They however lamented on some cases of patients transfers without their information. There was also concern for failure among some patients to turn-up for treatment reviews at health facilities. Reduced Stigma and improved positive living with increasing productive among TB/HIV affected individuals Widows living with HIV/AIDS visited shared testimonies of joy and relief following anti-stigma project campaigns.

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Testimonies fromTB survivors (PDF)

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Mar 4, 2011
PROGRESS REPORT

By Muhammad Kyeyune | Executive Director SDA

ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN FOR 8000 TB CASES IN MUBENDE DISTRICT

Progress Report

March 2011

By Muhammad Kyeyune

Executive Director

In the field of TB; we have successfully implemented the projects;

“Fight stigma and improve health” Advocacy campaign for Persons affected by TB/HIV through participatory theatre approaches in 4 sub counties in Buwekula county of Mubende district; reaches out to Persons affected with TB and HIV both young, women and men and children with accurate TB and HIV prevention messages using participatory theatre approaches as well as mobilizing them for TB and HIV services such as HCT, PMCT, Home based care and DOTS;

This is based on the recognition that Communication interventions are important means to engage policy makers, government officials, public and private health professionals, traditional and religious leaders, community leaders, patients and their families in bringing about political, behavioral and societal change with respect to TB and HIV.

In a period of 5 months (from August 2010 when we launched the Fight stigma and improve health) and by targeting only 4 sub counties out of 19 that make up Mubende district. To date we have managed to improve the CDR of the district from 35.7% in the second quarter to 44.3% by the end of 4^th quarter .We have also contributed outcomes of treatment of the 312 cases that were registered in 2009 as follows; We have improved the cure rate from 16.9% during the second quarter to 32.2% in the 4^th quarter. Treatment success has also improved from 73.1% before our intervention to 80.8% to date. Default rate has also been reduced from 17% before our project to 16.1% (district report 2010 by the District TB and Leprosy supervisor)

Mubende district local government health sector has now put TB and HIV Prevention as priority Number for the 2010-2011 financial year. The district has thus recruited more staff especially in the TB screening –Laboratory assistants to ensure accelerated TB case detection. This has been due to our advocacy efforts.

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2010 Annual report

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