Public Health Awareness
Public Health Awareness improves village life by teaching communities the importance of preparing clean drinking water, how to prevent the spread of disease like HIV/AIDS and how to avoid practices that put their health at risk like cooking indoors without proper ventilation.
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Sexual Health
- HIV/AIDS Information
This document discusses what AIDS is, how HIV causes disease, how it is transmitted, what the symptoms are, how to test for it and treat it. Please share this information with communities who are not yet informed.
- Living with HIV in Africa: A Personal Account
This powerful story was submitted anonymously to say, “I am a person living with HIV, born and raised in the Kenyan uplands where sex education is never presented, unlike 1st world countries such as the United States.” These pages clearly outline the dire and intimate consequences of not educating communities about this disease.
- Youth Outreach Mentors (YOM): Volunteer Action Plan
The goal of YOM is to deconstruct myths surrounding HIV/AIDS, enable youth to make educated choices about their health, and guide them in informing their communities in developing safe and knowledgeable lifestyle choices.
- Youth Outreach Mentors (YOM) Manual: HIV/AIDS Curriculum
This 48 page curriculum offers guidance for teaching students every important aspect of HIV/AIDS. Learn to create a comfortable discussion space and employ various activities to generate open conversations about this deadly disease.
- Peer Sexual Health Education
This brief guide offers activities for teaching sexual health education, including the topics of STIs, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and more.
- Psychosocial Support for Those Who Are Affected with HIV/AIDS
This a reminder that overcoming AIDS isn’t a job for just one person; it requires many of us, working together to stop the spread that is killing generations of people.
See also Performing Arts for Development to teach HIV/AIDS information by embracing oral storytelling performances and community engagement.
Clean Water
- Kenya Ceramic Products: Resources for Filter Purchasers
This guide illustrates how to prevent and treat waterborne disease, and how to use and clean the Filtron ceramic water filter
- Kenya Ceramic Products: Sample Ledger
KCP salespeople can use this example to track their monthly sales via payee, date, items sold, etc. - BioSand Filter Construction Guidelines
Malaria
- Growing Artemisia: Used in treating Malaria
Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200-400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. Learn how to grow and prepare Artemisia as an anti-malarial.
Other
- The Effects of Cooking Indoors on Women and Children Three billion people rely on biomass for their source of domestic cooking fuel resulting in a health crisis in developing nations that is little known to those in the developed world – indoor air pollution (IAP). Learn more about this issue to better educate those who are exposed of the dangers.