Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Module 2 Community Mobilisation and Tools
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Box 2.4.6: Major Health Problems in Communities
a. Malaria
b. Teenage pregnancy
c. Malnutrition in children
d. Diarrhoea.
Do you think it is only health staff in the hospital or health center who can deal with the
problems? No! A lot can be done by volunteers and community members before even
reporting to the CHO. The C-COPE tool is meant to assist community members to address
these health problems that a community identifies.
The C-COPE tool can also help demonstrate that some of these problems can be avoided.
Let us take malaria as an example and see how it can be prevented.
Exercise 2.4.5
Objective
1. To discuss how communities can prevent malaria
in children
Time: 5 minutes
Question
1. What do you think could be done to prevent
malaria? List responses on a flip chart. Compare
with responses in Box 2.2.6
Box 2.4.7: Prevention of Malaria
Instruction to the
Facilitator
1. Ask participants what
they have done/will do
to prevent malaria in
their communities.
a. Ensure that everyone – especially pregnant women and children under 5 years of age -
sleep under ITNs every night
b. Ensure that pregnant women take three (3) doses of IPT
c. Encourage everyone – especially pregnant women and children under 5 years of age - to
complete malaria treatment
d. Retreat bednets with insecticide as needed
e. Avoid stagnant water behind bath houses
f. Cover stored water in the home.
Topic 2 The Community COPE process
C-COPE process
Community COPE process consists of four steps. These are: -
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Information gathering and analysis