Awareness session on Dengue malaria in School: When Embedded Project Strategy Succeeded: Gwalior

Awareness session on Dengue malaria in School: When Embedded Project Strategy Succeeded: Gwalior

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In view of the increasing danger of dengue and the number of children suffering in Gwalior city, the need was felt to make the children and staff in the local schools aware and trained and an action plan was prepared by the team to provide training in schools, under which the schools were Prior to the program, a strategy was made to conduct programs in schools and training programs were started only after obtaining permission from the district authorities and taking written orders for permission. During the program, the manager of Miss Sil School located in Ward 52 refused the embed team to conduct awareness activity and larva survey in his school while Ward 52 was in the category of sensitive area of ​​health department for dengue case and the…
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Fear of Vaccination during VHND – Bastar

Fear of Vaccination during VHND – Bastar

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Badebodenar village under block Badekilepal 16 km far from Jagdalpur, Bastar district mostly Trible people used to live. Every month Behaviour Change Facilitator (BCCF) visits every house of the village to improve knowledge, health seeking behavior and to control of Malaria and Dengue. During VHND day at Anganwadi centre BCCF visited to support on 10 August 2021 he noticed one pregnant woman was not at VHND centre. BCCF Rupal singh and ANM visited that woman place to know the reason why she was not attended VHND day. Then BCCF and ANM met that woman and ANM told the pregnant to attend VHND, but she was not ready to go and refused because she feared of vaccination. In view of this situation BCCF tried to make her understand and convinced her.…
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Fogging done by community efforts. Choti Pakaria, Lucknow

Fogging done by community efforts. Choti Pakaria, Lucknow

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Choti Pakaria, Ayodhya Das, Lucknow is small basti with 150 families, Fogging or any mosquito breeding prevention activity was not done. Our BCCF talked to community members and community volunteer about available possibilities of such activities, and they suggested to do fogging which can be done by Lucknow Nagar Nigam, By Coordination of Sector Sabhasad Mr.Sameem Ahmad, they wrote letter and arranged a fogging vehicle which is now doing fogging at regular intervals.  Now the community members themselves follow-up of fogging vehicle if they find any delay in fogging.  Now BCCF using this as an example for other basti/slums to do such activities rather to waiting some one else to do for them.   [caption id="attachment_1971" align="alignleft" width="300"] fogging on street at Choti Pakria, Ayodhya Das, Lucknow, 12 Nov 2021[/caption]
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Prayas: Dengue, Malaria and Zika awareness in Kanpur

Prayas: Dengue, Malaria and Zika awareness in Kanpur

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K.D.A Colony Rampuram, Kanpur is a semi posh area. which comes under embed project. BCCF is doing source reduction at this place due to Zika control and awareness campaign. During the survey, BCCF visited Ram Bahadur Singh who is not supportive and not willing to share any information about fever or any source of mosquito breeding place. Continuous efforts done by BCCF by showing IEC/BCC poster to Ram Bahadur and explained very calmly everything related to dengue malaria and zika. The strenuous efforts of BCCF succeeded in changing the behaviour of Ram Bahadur. Ram Bahadur showed interest and agreed to do testing of pregnant woman of his family and gave access to team to check larva sources of the house. Team has checked coolers and other containers of his house…
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Being careless in fever, giving importance to getting treatment with Sirha (Local Healer ) before Mitanin (ASHA)

Being careless in fever, giving importance to getting treatment with Sirha (Local Healer ) before Mitanin (ASHA)

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Chitapur village is located at 30 km from Darbha block of Bastar district, in which mostly tribal (Madia, Gond Muria) community lives. In this village work is being done to reduce malaria under Godrej EMBED Project, in which every month Behavior Change Facilitator (BCCF) visits every house of the village and gives information malaria, dengue. When the house contact was being done by the worker of the Embed project on 01 July 2021, it was found that two children (7 and 4-year-old) of Ayatu tribal's house are suffering from fever for the last 3 days and the family did not get the children treated and they were brought to Sirha (local healer). after this high fever father was not allowing to do malaria test, After much persuasion by BCCF, the…
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Success through efforts; Bhairo Nagla, Budaun

Success through efforts; Bhairo Nagla, Budaun

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Village Bhairo nagala which is situated 20 km away from Badaun District. It is village which comes under sray pipariya gram panchayat. A small village with only 92 family resides consist of 1 bigger pond. It is our intervention village where malaria was one of the biggest challenges. In year 2019, 2020, 2021 malaria cases were found. As per EMBED team survey 4 pits are in the village. One pit which was nearby government tap facility and it was major source of mosquito breading. Nearby people were majorly affected with malaria and typhoid as well due to contaminated water. So one day one village member came to our BCCF and asked “q bhai yeh gadda bhar sakta hai or isse asspass bhoot kichad rhta hai nikal mai asuvidha hoti ”…
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Kaushal Deewan; Mungapadar, Kondagaon

Kaushal Deewan; Mungapadar, Kondagaon

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Mungapar is a small village 35 km away from Kondagaon. Most of the family depend on the farming.  Kaushal deewan’s family doesn’t believe in modern medicine they always go to traditional local healer for any treatment. During home visit our team got to know about his fever, they immediately called Mitanin (ASHA), test done by RDK and he was malaria positive (PV malaria).  After counselling he agreed to take medicine provided by ASHA, based on malaria treatment protocols.  He was under observation in BCCF and ASHA for 2-3 hours, then suddenly he complained about headache and vomiting. BCCF called 108 ambulance service and get him admitted in district hospital. BCCF has continuously followed up him for 14 days to completion of treatment, meanwhile BCCF and ASHA did test for all…
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Changing the behavior of the community through home visits- Hasapur, Sheopur

Changing the behavior of the community through home visits- Hasapur, Sheopur

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Village Hasapura comes under Baroda of Sheopur district, which is situated at a distance of 29KM from block headquarter and 7 km from district headquarter. In this village 140 families of Meena, Bairwa, and Mali communities reside. BCCF Vipin Acharya of the Embed Project continued to visit the village and meet the people and making the community aware about mosquito-borne diseases. Earlier people were not very keen in cleaning of their surroundings. After showing them live larva in the water bodies near the house, people got to know that these are larva of mosquito and later they will become mosquito.  BCCF Vipin explain the life cycle of mosquito. Soon after learning all the sessions community members are themselves started doing water logging treatment by oil filming, draining out water and…
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No more Malaria; Ganeshpur Bareilly

No more Malaria; Ganeshpur Bareilly

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Ganeshpur village is 54 kms away from district headquarter; located at Ramnagar block, Bareilly. Village has 51 families with total population of 381 as per our resource mapping. Ganeshpur is one of the most affected villages among the district with malaria fever since last four years. Most of the fever cases are treated by RHCPs (rural Health care Providers) or private doctor without testing and malaria treatment protocols. People have less faith in government health facilities that medicines are not useful and harm to body. Villages has many water stagnation and mosquito breeding sources in surrounding.  In the year 2019, 43 and In year 2020, 41 malaria positive cases reported in the village. Biggest challenge was in the village to motivate community members to follow malaria protocols for treatment which…
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Success story of village Roopanwara, Shivpuri

Success story of village Roopanwara, Shivpuri

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Roopanwara is a remote village around 60 km away from district head quarter of Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh. 215 families are living in the village, very few community members were aware about vector born disease and the role of mosquito to spreading the disease. During the listing and mapping survey EMBED team learned that only 5 families have heard about malaria and very few were using bed net. After the chaupal and regular visit of house to house with help of ASHA and involvement of Gramsabha members people started learning about malaria and its symptoms. BCCF helps thme to identify breeding sources and larva. Later they drained water sources near their house and treatment of other water sources with help of Panchayat.EMBED team regularly visit ASHA and Anganwadi during…
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