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KBN Helping Hands and Wellness foundation through the HIV/AIDS awareness and sensitisation uses innovative strategies to disseminate HIV prevention messages across communities efficiently as well as reduce HIV stigma while promoting HIV prevention
KBN Helping Hands and Wellness Foundation through the HIV/AIDS Awareness and sensitisation Program uses innovative strategies to disseminate HIV prevention messages across communities efficiently as well as reduce HIV stigma while promoting HIV prevention. This is being done through the following strategies;
Education is an important component of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Many citizens in our communities are not educated on HIV and the little information they have, much is incorrect. Our team for HIV awareness Program through the comprehensive education campaigns gives people information about HIV, how it is transmitted and how people can protect themselves from the infection and also to teach people how to put this information to use and act on it practically in order to protect new infection from taking place. Secondly through these education campaigns, our team enables and empowers the HIV positive people to improve their quality of life by enabling them to access medical services and drug provision and also to find for them appropriate emotional practical support and help. Our HIV/AIDS Awareness and sensitisation staff also goes ahead to reduce stigma and discrimination of people who are HIV positive in various communities because we discovered that this fear is too often accompanied by ignorance, resentment and ultimately, anger which can only be eliminated through educating our people.
Safe and adequate blood supplies are needed, especially in high Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rate areas. Tests for HIV are available in most of our communities. Much virus screening is taking place. The best way to control HIV transmission is to establish a blood transfusion system (BTS). Proper storage, distribution, collection and testing of blood must be done. Trained technicians and appropriate criteria for using transfusions should be included in any BTS. Through safe blood transfusions, our team for HIV/AIDs Awareness Program works hand in hand with various health facilities in the different communities to improve the recruitment and retention of safe donors, essential laboratory services for blood banking and screening, technical training and supervision, appropriate use of transfusions and the prevention of severe anaemia. All this is done to prevent HIV transmission by blood transfusion in our communities.
Safer sex practices can help reduce the risk of contracting HIV/AIDs. Through encouragement of safe sex, our team encourages people in various communities to adopt safer sex practices which include having regular tests for sexually transmitted infection (STIS), use of condoms for protection, abstinence and faithfulness. We create awareness in the society on how condoms can be accessed that is to say through buying them at drug stores or online, can sometimes be got for free from clinics or health departments. All this information is passed out to people in our communities so as reduce their chances of contracting the disease.
The youths in school constitute a very important segment of the population and because of their life style they may be prone to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Through HIV and sex education in schools, we develop educational activities in form of curricular or extra curricular activities with an aim of developing a behavior that protects our learners against the risk of HIV infection. These educational activities about HIV and sex education in our schools have resulted into significant changes in knowledge and attitude that affect the sexual behaviours of young people leading to significant increase in the use of condoms and reductions in sexually transmitted infections and abortion.
I am Jean Achen 27 years old born with HIV, I found out that I was positive at the eight years of old and became devastated on hearing the news. I have been carrying HIV since I was born as well as my young brother which we contracted from our mother before her untimely death. In the early 1990s there were no prevention of Mother to Child transmission (PMTCT) services and HIV/AIDS awareness was practically non-existent. Due to the stigma surrounding the virus at the time, my close friends and family members abandoned me. my father also passed away and as a result, I went from being a normal kid with parents to being orphan living with HIV/AIDS however since 2000, the Ministry of Health in Uganda has worked so hard to fight against the disease by setting up strategies such as counselling, training for health care, providing vigorous educational campaigns to increase understanding of the disease in the communities.
Today, through KBN Helping Hands and Wellness Foundation, I am an HIV/AIDS activist who has not only learnt how to navigate my life, love, school and work aspects but also uses my story to educate and empower fellow young people about HIV voluntary testing, taking medications and being honest to declare their HIV status in relationships and through the support of our team for HIV/AIDs Awareness and sensitisation Program, my story show cases the power of collaborations in improving the lives of people living with HIV and also fighting against stigma and discrimination of those affected by the Virus.
We at KBN Helping Hands and Wellness Foundation strive to help the vulnerable groups of people in the communities of Uganda.
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