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Using the internet and mobile phones as part of the advocacy cycle
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Key insights from the response of self-help groups to the Covid-19 pandemic in Rwanda
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by Alan Knott. Book-keeping is a tool that helps you to carry out other tasks to the best of your ability. It is an information system that can not only tell you what is going on with a particular project, but can also let others know what is happening.
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This is a very useful teaching method which has been developed and used by Kumasi Health Education Unit in Ghana. It encourages community health workers to participate in discussion and to develop self confidence in thinking through the problems and needs of their community. It is also an exercise which will help trainers to assess the understanding and knowledge of their trainees.
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Jean-Pierre, Toussaint, Patrice and Raphael supervise a group of health workers in Rafai, Central Africa Republic. Their task is to teach how to avoid some diseases. One of the commonest diseases in the area is diarrhoea. To make the teaching more effective, a ‘diarrhoea doll’ is used! Toussaint tells us how it works...
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Reasons why you should try growing and eating bele
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by Stan Rowland Many Christian organisations are concerned with meeting either people’s spiritual needs or their physical needs. Too often, Christians separate the needs of people.
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The Haunted Well Mengo Hospital, near Kampala, have recently identified three wells in nearby villages, that they would like to ‘protect’. These are 15 feet or so in diameter and look like stagnant ponds, although they are fed by underwater springs. They provide the only source of water for many local people, but are constantly being polluted by animals and humans.
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Our approach to community health and development by Stan Rowland. Many Christian groups are concerned with meeting either spiritual needs or physical needs.
Resource Type: Case studies
These examples give some idea of the variety of approaches in primary health care, looking in particular at the selection and training of community health workers, community involvement and funding.
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by Isabel Carter and Ted Lankester. Developing partnershipPrimary health care is often only thought of in medical terms. However, the key to successful community based health care is to work in partnership with the community. This, an often revolutionary aim, is too often neglected.
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by Audrey Fernandez. The busy clinic at Biombo in Guinea Bissau, West Africa, acts as a centre for primary health care work in the surrounding areas. A group of eye specialists from Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) visited Biombo in January this year. We were greatly encouraged by their work and were amazed by the number of people in need. Dr Adrian Hopkins and his team made us aware of how simple hygiene, nutrition and early treatment of eye conditions can prevent blindness which may ...
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