Promoting Real Healthy Families: Home Economics

KIFA Hires Medical Personnel To Advocate: HIV/AIDS

KIFA hires medical personnel to advocate for HIV/AIDS

With an attempt to equip the youth within the area of its operation with the knowledge of how to prevent and control spread of HIV/AIDS; Kole Intellectual Forum has hired expert from the Ministry of Uganda (MOH), to talk to them and also brief them of the sources of information and ways of living HIV/AIDS free; these included among others, the:

• Life skills training guide: This guide is available from the Health and Education Resource Centre and covers HIV/AIDS and substance use prevention. It includes modules, exercises, games, lectures, and case studies.
• Training course for HIV/AIDS counselors: This course is available from the MOH Knowledge Management Portal.
• UNMISS training: The United Nations Peacekeeping supports training on HIV/AIDS prevention.
• Vocational training with HIV prevention: This program is available for Ugandan youth and includes a 10-session Street Smart HIV prevention program.

And some ways to reduce the risk of getting HIV include:

• Getting tested for HIV
• Using condoms
• Limiting the number of sexual partners
• Getting tested and treated for STDs
• Talking to a health care provider about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
• Not injecting drugs
• Having only low-risk sex
• Only having partners with the same HIV status
• A Training Course for HIV/AIDS Counselors

Taking into account that:

Positive Prevention Counseling: A Training Course for HIV/AIDS Counselors, MOH Knowledge Management Portal; and that, show all, is for an informational purpose that are used mainly only for medical advice or diagnosis or through consultation of the professionals

Promoting parents-teachers meeting: A search for positive change

Basing on the argument that: the primary objectives of parent-teacher meetings are to establish effective communication channels between educators and parents, providing a platform for mutual understanding and collaboration in the best interest of the student; Kole Intellectual Forum is trying to facilitate this type of program in hard to reach areas in the public primary schools of Kole District; with hope of promoting quality, sustainable and potential education in that very particular schools as well as looking at the means and way forward to address health matters at homes and schools

We this was done, there was a common understanding among parents-teachers at one of the schools in Kole District and parents started to collect food for their children at that particular school. Indeed, within that year the performance of the children change positively and the rate of children falling sick dropped drastically