NABONGO DISPENSARY AWARENESS OUTREACH
By WANAJALA .B. DANSON
Nabongo dispensary has organised for a two days awareness campaign on HIV AIDS,breastfeeding and long term family planning methods. They started the two day outreach yesterday . Community health workers with the supervision of clinical officers and nurses are conducting a door to door visitation while others are located in different parts of Kakamega town where they are conducting HIV/AIDS tests to people who are willling to get tested.
Pamela Keya, a community health worker says that this outreach is being done to get people to come out and know their HIV/AIDS status, raise awareness of the long term methods of family planning and importance of breastfeeding. In the door to door practice she says that one is supposed to capture atleast 100 households. The community health workers are 25 whereby 5 of them are trained in family planning. This outreach was started in November last year where the community haelth workers were trained and is usually done on monthly basis.
She says that the outreach has been made possible and easier by the intervention of organisations such as Aphia Plus,USAID and the TUJIPANGE crew whereby they provide them with bicycles that make areas accessible,artime and such essentials. The campaign is set to end today as they plan for next month’s.