Mobile Health Education.

CATEGORY: Health

LOCATION: Rural areas, Northern and Southern provinces, RWANDA, Rwanda

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Mobile Health Education is a project based in the southern and the northern provinces of Rwanda. it was created in 2008 to address the most challenging health issues especially HIV/AIDS and reproductive health.

Standings & Awards

15 out of 591 in Africa
6 out of 284 in Health
7 out of 173 in Scale
14 out of 992 in Charitable
34 out of 4003 Overall

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MEDICAL STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF RWANDA (MEDSAR)

sustainable development with healthy people

1. Background

Rwanda is challenged by HIV/AIDS and reproductive health problems. Here 7% of people are contaminated and the annual birth rate is estimated at 40.2 births per 1,000 inhabitants. This is complicated by the following situations:

The governmental health sensitization systems are not reaching the grass root level and this makes many people rely on false health beliefs and information

Stigmatization which leads to many health issues being taboo, not easy to talk in public, and lack of will to go for voluntary HIV testing and counseling. This has a big impact in HIV transmission.

Cultural beliefs: many children is God’s blessing and a honor and this leads to a high reproductive rate

The project plans to address the health problems in rural areas targeting people from the reproductive age, including HIV/AIDS teachings, sensitization for voluntary HIV testing and counseling, reproductive health and family planning education by outreaching down to the grassroots level

2.Goal of the project

Sustainable development with healthy people

3.Objectives

Increase HIV/AIDS awareness in Rwandans by reaching the grassroot level and using a confidential way of giving information to special personnal questions

Increase the number of people attending the voluntary testing and counseling program

Increase reproductive health knowledge in young people

Increase family planning knowledge and the number of people using modern family planning methods

4.Methodology

Out reaching sessions down to the grassroots level where there is a big need of knowledge

Teaching methods based on interaction and role playing where everybody is free to talk and the issue of taboo becomes history

use of a hotline channel to give confidential information about personnal questions ang gain people's feedback

Use volunteers who are committed and passionate people which makes the work easy

Support Your Idea Optional (5 - 7 minutes for three uploads)

Supporting Document:

This picture shows the MEDSAR volunteers in the world malaria day walk with our Danish partners ( whites)

this is picture of our volunteer in action

this is an official recognition document offered by the National University of Rwanda

Roadmap to Success Optional (1 - 3 minutes to upload)

Roadmap to Success:

roadmap_to_success.pdf

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FIVE PROJECT QUESTIONS Required (60 - 90 minutes)

1. What is your innovation?

Our innovation: - Out reaching sessions down to the grassroots level where there is a big need of knowledge - Teaching methods based on interaction and role playing where everybody is free to talk and the issue of taboo becomes history - Separate the target group according to age to make people more comfortable to talk - A hotline channel through which we give confidential information to people about special questions - Use volunteers who are committed people which makes the work easy

2. Who gains the most?

the whole Rwandan society in general gains from our activities but especially the rural community because they are the most who do not have as much access to information as people living in urban areas. the southern and the northern provinces our operating areas will benefit more than other provinces. here we mention that our volunteers also gain too much experience of the field work and the government gains the handwork of our volunteers and new statistics.

3. Who pays?

the people who pay are - DUF ( Danish Youth Council) funding our activities, training our volunteers and help us monitoring and evaluating our activities. - Some local NGOs support our activities by offering required teaching materials and trainers for our volunteers. - Ministry of health through different health institutions offer teaching materials and guide manuals costly valuable. - National university of Rwanda giving us office room and office materials costly valuable.

4. What is your success?

in 12 months 90% of people will be attending the voluntary HIV testing and counseling in 3 years the number of people using modern family planning methods will increase from 65% up to 93% our hotline channel will be working properly and delivering information to people in a suitable way. in 5 years we shall have trained more trainers who will sustain our activities at the end of this project. we shall have built new partnerships.

5. How will you do it?

Methodology - Outreach teaching sessions down to the grassroots community level where there is a big need of knowledge and used methods are based on interaction and role playing where everybody is free to talk. - Use of a hotline channel to give confidential information about personal health questions and gain people's feedback and advices - Training of trainers to sustain the project later after a deadline -- Use volunteers who are committed and passionate people which makes the work easy