Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control in Kenya
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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control in Kenya
Chakaya J. M
NLTP, Kenya.
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TB Disease in Kenya
• 2004– 105, 747 of all types in 2004– 41,467 New smear positive– 41,220 New smear negative– 14,949 New extra-pulmonary– 8, 482 re-treatment cases
• TB CNR: 320/100,000 for all TB • 9-fold increase since early nineties• Average annual increase: 16%• CDR 50% of estimated incidence• Estimated that over 60% HIV+
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New PTB- 76 n/a 7 11 6 33,008
EPTB 74 n/a 8 11 7 11,862
Re-treatment 75 0.5 11 7 7 3,032
Constraints to TB control In Kenya
• A weak public health care system with inadequate health infrastructure including a low health facility density
• Inadequate Human resource for health• Financing for TB remains inadequate and short
term• General knowledge of TB in the population is
high but specific action oriented knowledge is low.
The ACS Strategy
• The GOAL• To use advocacy, communications and social
mobilization to achieve the 70/85 TB control targets and to sustain this effort to eventually achieve the Millennium Development Goal 6 – target 8 – ie “To have halted by 2015 and began to reverse the incidence of TB in Kenya”
The ACS strategy
• The ACS objectives• Advocate for development of supportive
policies and increased funding for TB programs
• Increase awareness and knowledge of TB and reduce its associated stigma in the general public
• Mobilize the community and build its capacity to respond to the TB epidemic
The ACS strategy in Kenya
• Multiple partners –the ACS working group
• A variety of behavior change approaches
• Multiple audiences
• Needs assessment/evaluation of on-going programmes an essential first step
• Funding gap analysis
Advocacy• Target audiences include parliamentarians, ministry of health
officials, the business community, religious leaders etc
• High light the growing TB problem and the socio-economic impact of TB to these decision makers
• Increase funding for TB control in Kenya
• Improve coordination of TB control activities.
• Impact assessment: – funding gap analysis– and regular surveys of knowledge of TB among the decision makers in
government, industry, trade unions etc– Macro and Micro-economic impact surveys
Communication
• The activities • Mass media campaign• IPC –peer education, traditional folk media,
non-conventional media in communities, schools and among health care workers
• IEC materials for mass pamphleteering
• Impact assessment• Case detection and treatment outcomes• KAP Surveys
Communication
• Target audience• General public• School going youth• Teachers• Health care workers• Journalists
Social Mobilization
• Target audiences• Religious leaders• Civic and cultural institutions• People at work sites• Current and former TB patients• People infected and affected by HIV• Community based organizations
The ACS strategy in Kenya
• An ambitious ACS strategy? Can it really be done?
• Who is going to do it? • The capacity to do it.
• Will it be funded and if yes will the funding be sustained?
• If well implemented will we be able to meet the demand for services created by ACS activities?
• Impact assessment-Is this all?• Examine funding gaps• Inclusion of TB in key Poverty Reduction and Development papers• In depth knowledge of TB among various groups• Case notification and detection rate• Treatment outcomes
Overcoming the ACS challenges
• Request for Technical assistance• Train and support ACS health care
workers• Increase number of players and sustain
interest of these players in the ACS working group
• Hope for a successful intervention to increase funding and sustain funding as a result of advocacy activities.
ACS
• Need sustained effort- ACS should be a long term affair
• Need long term financing
• Need a multiplicity of players
• Need to vary communication and social mobilization approaches to local context