The Anti TB Campaign August 23rd to August 29th 2021

Monday theme:

Build trust so that COVID-19 and Tuberculosis prevention is made a Community wide initiative. #StopTBPartnership, #StopTB #StopCOVID19.

Tuesday theme:  

Entrench team work. COVID-19 vaccines must be made available. Remember to promote Tuberculosis-zero deaths too. #StopTBPartnership.

Wednesday theme: 

Promote concerted engagement in eradicating COVID-19 and TB. Avoid crowds, wear the mask, practice hand-washing and ensure social -distancing. #StopTBPartnership.

Thursday theme: 

Make it possible for services to include screening, testing and provision of medication. Please stop the TB Cough stigma. Please seek medical attention, take medicines fully. #StopTBPartnership.

Friday Theme:

You are the connection to opportunities for TB/HIV prevention and care. Be part of the anti COVID-19 or TB campaigns. #StopTBPartnership.

Saturday theme: 

We are committed to end TB and COVID-19. The health systems must be strengthened with the community in mind. #StopTBPartnership, #StopTBKenya

Sunday theme:  

Be emphatic because TB/HIV/COVID-19 Syndemics  devastate life. Empower people living with TB to fight COVID-19, HIV and Malaria. Be an enabler. #StopTBPartnership

How We Shall Keep Traction Toward The 2025 TB Prevention Goals; An End of July 2021 Mini-Report

Any grassroots based organization working in the quality health promotion must be hands on as far as the synergy of livelihood, healthy living and development go.

We are that type of organization providing support tools to leverage community organizing to be receptive to the wherewithal of TB Prevention at local levels.

We show how it is important to identify the processes, the people who animate the delivery of services and lastly the contexts.

Before any organization is provided support to take on health promotion initiatives we provide scenarios to empower them to fathom the requirements of commitment to achieving goals.

For instance the Anti-TB

Milestones for 2025 are:

"a. 75% reduction in Tuberculosis deaths as compared with 2015

b. 50% reduction in Tuberculosis incidents rate to less than 55 Tuberculosis cases per 100,000 population

c. No affected families facing catastrophic costs due to Tuberculosis."

This means that any organization engaging in Anti-TB initiatives must have:

1. People willing to take up the roles and responsibilities of Anti-TB Champions

2. The people must ensure they are aware of how to protect themselves and those they are to reach out to.

3. The people must have common sources of messages which they deliver without risking misleading others thus, enhancing prevention which are disseminated in different ways such as, music, dance, drama, skits, posters, fliers, door-to-door visits, interviews, talk-shows, Town-halls, literature reviews,meetings, counselling and guidance to name but a few.

4. They must have knowledge of area leaders whom they build rapport with so that the combined buy-in by leaders ensures uptake by the local beneficiaries.

5. They must draw plans to continue being committed to health promotion because this is a life long exercise. This also means knowing how much they are willing to commit without jeopardizing other life's goals.

6. They must be ready to generate reports which can be shared among leaders or anyone who needs to access them.

What this will establish is an organization of capable people with accompanying resources to enable them carry out planned activities.

It takes planning, commitment and a strong will.

Join our Anti-TB efforts. It takes you and us to kick TB out of Africa.

The Stop TB Strategic Direction Pointers

Stop TB Grassroots Based Strategy 

We collaborate with many other actors in the effort to end TB.

In 2019, the 30 high TB burden countries accounted for 87% of new TB cases.

Eight countries accounted for the 2/3 of the total TB burden with India leading the count, followed by Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and South Africa according to the Global Tuberculosis Report: WHO

The components of the Stop TB Strategy include:

1. Pursue high-quality DOTS expansion and enhancement

2. Address TB/HIV, MDR-TB and other special challenges

3. Contribute to health system strengthening

4. Engage all care providers 

5. Empower people living with TB 

A world free of Tuberculosis-zero deaths, disease and suffering due to Tuberculosis

Milestones for 2025:

a. 75% reduction in Tuberculosis deaths as compared with 2015

b. 50% reduction in Tuberculosis incidents rate to less than 55 Tuberculosis cases per 100,000 population

c. No affected families facing catastrophic costs due to Tuberculosis

Targets for 2035:

a. 95% reduction in Tuberculosis deaths compared with 2015

b. 90% reduction in Tuberculosis incidence rate to less than 10 Tuberculosis cases per 100,000 population

c. No affected families facing catastrophic costs due to Tuberculosis

Principles:

1. Government stewardship and accountability, with monitoring and evaluation

2. String coalition with civil society organizations a s communities

3. Protection and promotion of human rights, ethics and equity

4. Adaptation of the strategy and targets at country level, with global collaboration

The pillars and components:

1. Integrated, patient-centred care and prevention such as prevention, treatment, care and organizing communities offering support.

2. Bold policies and supportive systems such as universal health coverage, social protection and addressing determinants of Tuberculosis.

3. Intensified research and innovation such as optimizing implementation, impact and promoting Innovation.

It is our hope that your continued support will foster wider participation by people in testing, screening, treatment and preventing TB.

For more on the above information, please read the CDC, MOH, WHO and Stop TB sources.

We are committed to the end to TB Campaign through strategic grassroots-based activities.

#StopTBPartnership

#StopTBKenya

#StopTBAfrica

#StopTB

We Are Part Of The End To TB Campaign

We Are Committed The End To TB Campaign

#stoptbkenya 

#StopTB 

#EndTB 

#TBVaccine 

#endtbby2030 

#stoptbafrica 

#StopTBPartnership

End TB By 2030

The Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV Work At The Nature Network Group 19th July to 25th July 2021

Monday theme:

We wish all those suffering from COVID-19 a quick recovery. Meanwhile please, support grassroots-based healthy living Activism. Promote healthy messaging. Avoid overcrowding, wear the mask, keep at home and Hand-washing. Be part of the COVID-19 and TB Prevention efforts.

Tuesday theme:  

COVID-19 is real. It kills, but it can be avoided too. Take the test where possible. Find out about signs and symptoms. Keep at your home or within your community. To prevent COVID-19 and TB fully join the prevention plans around you.

Wednesday theme: 

We send our prayers of healing to all those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19. Wellness is for and by all. TB and COVID-19 are preventable but it requires your input. Avoid crowds, wear the mask, hand-washing and ensure social -distancing.

Thursday theme: 

We call on all of you to do something about prevention. If you suspect TB or COVID-19 go for testing. Please seek medical attention, take medicines.

Friday Theme:

COVID-19 can be prevented. Your participation makes prevention of TB and COVID-19 possible. Make sure your household and community are spaces for avoiding COVID-19 or TB. Travel less, congregate less and wear the mask.

Saturday theme: 

You too can do something. Join a grassroots-based initiative or be involved in different ways for you to take part in the anti-TB and anti- COVID-19 Campaigns in your community. Show up and be counted by engaging in prevention activities please.

Sunday theme:  

When you follow the guidelines, you contribute to fighting diseases such as COVID-19, TB, HIV and Malaria. Don't sit back. Don't fold your hands. Dont allow TB and COVID-19 to prevail. They must not win. Tips on what to do: Vaccination, Hand-washing, sanitizing, social distancing and wearing the mask.

The Week of 11th July to 17th July 2021 At The Nature Network Group Resource Center

Monday theme:

Support grassroots-based healthy living Activism. Promote healthy messaging. Avoid overcrowding, wear the mask, keep at home and Hand-washing. Be part of the COVID-19 and TB Prevention efforts.

Tuesday theme:  

COVID-19 is real. Take the test where possible. Find out about signs and symptoms. Keep at your home or within your community. To prevent COVID-19 and TB fully join the prevention plans around you.

Wednesday theme: 

Wellness is for and by all. TB and COVID-19 are preventable but it requires your input. Avoid crowds, wear the mask, hand-washing and ensure social -distancing.

Thursday theme: 

If you suspect TB or COVID-19 go for testing. Please seek medical attention, take medicines.

Friday Theme:

Your participation makes prevention of TB and COVID-19 possible. Make sure your household and community are spaces for avoiding COVID-19 or TB. Travel less, congregate less and wear the mask.

Saturday theme: 

Join a grassroots-based initiative or be involved in different ways for you to take part in the anti-TB and anti- COVID-19 Campaigns in your community. Show up and be counted by engaging in prevention activities please.

Sunday theme:  

Don't sit back. Don't fold your hands. Dont allow TB and COVID-19 to prevail. They must not win. Tips on what to do: Vaccination, Hand-washing, sanitizing, social distancing and wearing the mask.

Well Facilitated Static Resource Centers Serve As Safe Spaces For Conducting Effective Physical Meetings Following The COVID-19 Pandemic Safeguards

The Nature Network Group Resource Center Activity Report June 2020-May 2021

The purpose of this short report is to show-case some of the Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-Malaria and Anti-HIV work.

We are so glad to be part of the Champions who joined the larger teams participating in the efforts to end HIV,TB, Malaria by 2030 integrating COVID-19 Prevention.

We work so hard,

We work with a smile,

We have the energy,

We want safer communities,

We contribute to peace,

We chose to share our knowledge,

We use our skills,

We know that it is responsible of us to be part of our societies,

We can be effective and useful members if we champion the health promotion activities.

We believe in quality life for all.

Please be part of our initiatives.

#thenaturenetwork

#covidloser 

#familybasedtherapymodel 

#stoptbkenya 

#StopTB 

#StopTBPartnership 

The Community Outreach Plan To Promote Healthy Living July 2021-December 2021

A Caring Community Campaign July 2021-December 2021

COVID-19 and Caring Communities

We use Strategic Community Outreach to implement our work.

Communities are spaces where adults and children can access life promoting services such as masks, sanitizer, hand-washing materials, Anti-TB, Anti-COVID-19, Anti-HIV, Anti-Malaria and other forms of servjces.

Where communities lack such services then that is a TB, HIV, Malaria or COVID-19 related vulnerability and aggression. 

We must provide opportunities for children and all people to grow and develop well. Every person  has the right to be born well, to be cared for and raised well.

The mini plans include:

Support Healthy Living for Your Child: 

There is a connection between your sense of reality and psychological dimensions

Say No to Psychological Abuse:

Psychological abuse is typically characterised by an abuser distorting someone’s sense of reality. This is also called gas lighting. The goal of the psychological abuser is to convince the victim that she’s crazy or incompetent. She/He might, for example, insist that some event happened in a much different way than she/he remembered, to the extent that basic, verifiable facts about the situation were different. It could be something like “No, you didn’t wear your red jacket; you wore your blue jacket. Don’t you remember?” Convincing someone her/his memory is imperfect in these small matters sets the stage for larger deceptions later on. While it’s normal for people to remember events differently or to forget minor details, a psychological abuser will distort facts with the intent of undermining your confidence and making you more pliable. Children, who are provided psychological growth support face, can try out things on their own, life’s challenges and engage in problem-solving with confidence. This improves on their relationships, team-work skills, confidence and autonomy.

When you are a family and the children cannot access food, care, love, compassion, privacy, agency, autonomy and self-determination tools, then that is aggression.

When you are a community and that community cannot provide the necessary safety nets to avoid COVID-19, then that is aggression.

Know the different types of abuses:

• Physical abuse.

• sexual child abuse (Rape, molestation, child pornography)

• Neglect (Physical neglect, educational neglect, and lack of protection from diseases)

• Emotional abuse (Verbal, Mental, or Psychological related)

• Domestic violence or abuse.

• Sexual abuse

• Financial or material abuse

• Modern slavery

• Discriminatory abuse

• Organisational or institutional abuse

Abuses can lead to TB, COVID-19, Malaria, and HIV related vulnerability in communities.

Using Social Media Platforms To Enhance Health Promotion and Advocacy Campaigns Against HIV, TB,Malaria and COVID-19

We involve ourselves into strategic promotion of information, education and communication to raise consciousness about how contributions to quality life goals can optimally be made.

Regularly updated social media platforms enable us to provide information that stimulates decision-making.

We use the platforms as notice boards through which we connect with readers.

Social media platforms are an archive of activities that can be accessed by those who desire to find out what we are engaged in.

Social media platforms are reporting tools which can be used to track activities.

The platforms are an opportunity to manage what is shared widely, they make interaction possible and provide themes to follow categorically.

The routine embedded within such enterprise makes it galvanizing especially if those who were previously stigmatized or discriminated can use the platforms to broaden opportunity for participation and involvement.

Social media platforms leverage action to participate in activities such as Health, social justice or  human rights promotion.

Those who engage in regular updates are the interlocutors and champions  who create new jobs. The jobs then increase room for others to participate in self development as well as livelihood enhancement.

Social media platforms leverage maximization of opportunities that create expansion of work spaces and virtual mobility. These can translate into economic, cultural, social and technology development opportunities.

The routine creates a sense of accomplishment, the displays provide visual cues that can be in form or records or notices and the work space broadens possibilities.

In using social media platforms, we have been able to develop human resource in form of social change agents or champions. We are able to leverage imagination, catalyze effort, contribute to means and create instantiation that elevates dignity for all.

Announcing A Virtual COVID-19 Conference On 10-11 July 2020

ANNOUNCING A VIRTUAL COVID-19 CONFERENCE ON 10 – 11 JULY 2020

The International AIDS Society (IAS) will host a virtual COVID-19 Conference on breaking COVID-19 research, policy analysis and frontline experience on the final day of AIDS 2020: Virtual

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global emergency that has now infected more than 3 million people worldwide and is already the most lethal new pandemic since the emergence of AIDS nearly 40 years ago.

In recognition of the urgent need to analyse research, review policy and exchange frontline experiences related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IAS will host a virtual COVID-19 Conference on 10 – 11* July 2020, shining a spotlight on the latest science, policy and practice of the pandemic.

The virtual COVID-19 Conference will take place online on the last day of AIDS 2020: Virtual. It will feature a free-of-charge, stand-alone programme of plenary, invited-speaker and abstract-driven sessions exclusively dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Confirmed speakers include Dr Anthony Fauci and Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, who are both members of the US White House COVID-19 Task Force, and Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of CAPRISA and Chair of the South African Ministry of Health COVID-19 Advisory Committee/COVID-19 MAC, among other experts working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response.

Many of the global experts gathering for AIDS 2020: Virtual are also leading voices in SARS-CoV-2 virology, immunology, vaccines, clinical care and therapeutic guidelines, and trials. The virtual conference will provide a unique opportunity to help shape the evolving global response to COVID-19.

COVID-19 abstract submissions, including exploratory studies, are now open until Monday, 25 May 2020. Abstracts for the virtual COVID-19 Conference will be considered in one of the following tracks:

· Track A: Basic science, pathogenesis, virology, immunology, inflammation

· Track B: Clinical science, testing (RT-PCR and serologic) and diagnoses, natural history, clinical care, ARDS care, therapeutics

· Track C: Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, prevention, vaccines

· Track D: Public health responses including physical distancing and community level efforts, programmes, policies, lifting restrictions, modelling

· Track E: Social, economic, political, human rights impacts of the pandemic and the response Register today and submit your COVID-19 abstract to the world’s first abstract-led conference on COVID-19 as we come together to advance the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More information on the COVID-19 Conference can be found here.

Register today and submit your COVID-19 abstract to the world’s first abstract-led conference on COVID-19 as we come together to advance the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More information on the COVID-19 Conference can be found here.

Signed,

Anton Pozniak,

MD President, International AIDS Society

AIDS 2020: Virtual International Chair

United Kingdom

*For delegates in certain time zones, the conference will run into Saturday 11 July 2020

About the International AIDS Society

The International AIDS Society (IAS) leads collective action on every front of the global HIV response through its membership base, scientific authority and convening power. Founded in 1988, the IAS is the world’s largest association of HIV professionals, with members in more than 170 countries. Working with its members, the IAS advocates and drives urgent action to reduce the impact of HIV. The IAS is also the steward of the world’s most prestigious HIV conferences: the International AIDS Conference, the IAS Conference on HIV Science, and the HIV Research for Prevention Conference. For more information, visit www.iasociety.org.

About the International AIDS Conference

The International AIDS Conference is the premier global platform to advance the HIV response. As the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS, it sits uniquely at the intersection of science, advocacy and human rights, bringing together scientists, policy makers, healthcare professionals, people living with HIV, funders, media and community. Since its start in 1985, the conference has served as an opportunity to strengthen policies and programmes that ensure an evidence-based response to HIV and related epidemics.

The 23rd International AIDS Conference – known as AIDS 2020: Virtual – will be the first virtual edition of the International AIDS Conference, which will take place on 6-10 July 2020, with the theme, Resilience. The conference is organized by the International AIDS Society in collaboration with its permanent partners, UNAIDS, ICASO and ICW. For more information, visit www.aids2020.org.

Nature Network Team Pushes for End To TB, HIV, Malaria Integrating COVID-19

We are so thrilled to share with you,
the various short reports here.
We are still pushing for end to TB, HIV and Malaria even as COVID-19 is roaming large.
It takes community to beat TB.
It concerns all of us.
It is my business too.
We keep the promise to ensure that
we move together, invest more, invest better,
emphasize gender equality and ensure political leadership beyond health.
Let’s leave no one behind and remember our theme: Taking health in our hands.
It’s time to end TB
#COVID19loser

We are putting in hours!  Long hours to be good!  This is how good we do our "prep!"
We are about to present the first ever COVID-19 Loser Africa Campaign Hackathon!
We love you all.
Strategies👣Impact🚣Goals🏵️🌻
When we know the problem, we then look for solutions. When we know solutions, we then look for ways to apply them through appropriatisation. Appropriate activities are the strategies which have impact which then lead to our goals. It takes community to beat TB.
It concerns all of us.
It is my business too.
But, that does not stop us from self-care and grooming!

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