{"id":316,"date":"2015-05-28T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2020-09-17T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:20:13","slug":"community-activities-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/strategy\/community-activities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Community activities are an integral part of both Child Health Programs in Malawi. Activities are &nbsp;being implemented in villages throughout the catchment areas and directly involve men, women, children and chiefs living in the local communities. The main objective of these activities is to improve health-related behaviours of parents in order to reduce morbidity and mortality amongst under-5 children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">These activities are being implemented in partnership with government outreach workers \u2013 called Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The key activities undertaken include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Identifying and training Village Health Committees (VHCs)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Implementation and enforcement &nbsp;of local by-laws<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Supporting training and provision of Community Based Maternal and Neonatal Health (CBMNH or CBMNC)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Community triggering (mass sensitization sessions)<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>House by house counselling visits and follow-up<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Door to door survey to monitor recommanded practices uptake<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_10235\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/16.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10235\" src=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/16.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20140414_112422\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Triggering session, or mass sensitization, in a village<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>For more details of the community activities undertaken by the&nbsp;Inter Aide&#8217;s&nbsp;Child Health Programs, click on the links below:<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Community Activities (Central Region)\" href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/strategy\/community-activities-2\/community-activities\/\">Community Activities in Central Region<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a title=\"Community Activities (Southern Region)\" href=\"http:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/strategy\/community-activities-2\/community-activities-southern-region\/\">Community Activities in Southern Region<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community activities are an integral part of both Child Health Programs in Malawi. Activities are &nbsp;being implemented in villages throughout the catchment areas and directly involve men, women, children and chiefs living in the local communities. The main objective of these activities is to improve health-related behaviours of parents in order to reduce morbidity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/1066"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interaide.org\/health\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}