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Box 3.1.3: DO’S and DON’TS of volunteers DON’TS • Give injections • Give ORS • Dispense antibiotics • Refer patients to the nearest health facility • Dress baby’s cord • Give water to new born babies • Visit sick people in their homes • Dress wounds • Detain or admit patients • Supervise the health committee • Promote exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding Selection and Training of Volunteers DOS • Promote complementary feeding • Appoint the health committee • Sell condoms • Do Norplant for women • Give newborns enema • Conduct Vasectomy • Tell women about all the family planning methods • Offer incentives for women to adopt family planning • Teach households how to treat malaria • Train the CHO on deliveries. After going through the training, a durbar is again organised and the health volunteer is presented to the community as being ready to start work. This is where he is told all the DO’s and DON’Ts of the work of a volunteer. This is done in the presence of community members so they will be able to know whether or not he is doing the right thing. Unit Summary In this unit we learnt a lot about the work of the Village Health Committee and the criteria that are used in selecting the members. We also did exercises in which the main roles and responsibilities of the volunteers came out clearly. We discussed in detail the process to follow in selecting volunteers and committee members, their training needs and what they can or cannot do. 157
Module 3 The Work of the Health Committee Unit 2 Advocacy for Health 158 Introduction The purpose of this unit is to help you understand the importance of healthy living. It also aims to help you develop skills for advocating for health in your community. You will learn how to identify sources from which money or materials can be obtained for improving community health care delivery and how to mobilise these resources at the community level. Unit objectives Unit Topics By the end of this unit participants will be able to: 1. What is Advocacy? 1. Explain the meaning of advocacy 2. Advocacy for community health 2. Explain the importance of healthy living and community 3. Advocacy for family planning development 4. Advocacy for resource mobilisation 3. Develop skills for advocating for health and family planning in the community 4. Identify sources of resources for CHPS 5. Discuss how to mobilise resources at the community level Keywords and phrases: Advocacy, development, healthy living Topic 1 What is advocacy? Definition of Advocacy Advocacy is an umbrella term for organised activism related to a particular set of issues. Advocacy is persuasive communication and targeted actions in support of a cause or issue that seeks to change policies, positions and programmes. When we persuade or argue in favour of something, such as a cause, an idea, a policy or a service delivery strategy, we are advocating on that issue. For those of us involved in community health delivery, advocacy is the act of speaking or of disseminating information intended to influence individual health seeking behaviour or opinion about health services. The skills of advocacy include mediating, coordinating, clarifying, resolving conflict, and assisting the patient and client to acquire, interpret, and utilise health care information. But advocacy is better described than defined. The most forceful form of advocacy is what a lawyer does in court. A lawyer in a court room advances a particular point of view by presenting arguments purely to sway the judge or jury in favour of his client. An advocate who does his job properly will, without actually lying, try to use any legal technicalities to keep inconvenient evidence away from the jury.
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