Andrew Tumwikirize - Creation of Awareness of Hepatitis B Disease, 2017

PROJECT PROPOSAL ABOUT CREATION OF AWARENESS OF HEPATITIS B DISEASE, ITS PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

INTRODUCTION

This proposal is to create awareness about hepatitis b disease, its prevention and treatment.

Hepatitis B is a disease of the liver caused by Hepatitis B virus, it can be acute in adults who get it and then get better for a short time and babies who get infected with virus are likely to chronic Hepatitis B where the virus cause a long term with time.

Uganda is highly endemic with 10% national prevalence of hepatitis B infection; rates vary across the country from 4% in the Southwest and 25% in the Northeast. (Ochola et al, 2013).

This project is to be carried out during the weekend from the following locations;

·      Kiyombya village at church of Uganda on 8^th Jan 2017 at 12:00pm-2:30pm

·      Kagote church of Uganda in kagote village on 22^nd Jan 2017 at 12:00pm-2:00pm

·      Rwengoma church of Uganda on 17^th Feb, 2017 at 12:00pm-2:00pm

·      Kitumba church of Uganda in kitumba village on 26^th Feb, 2017 at 12:00pm-2:00pm

I am to initially get authorization from the church leaders and community leaders before the project activities.

I will be helped by fellow students to run activities of the project smoothly.

The following are names of the students to help me in running the project;

1.     Mujuni Peter

2.     Mwinomujuni Dismas

3.     Kasiime Bridget

4.     Kajote Agness

PROJECT PURPOSE

Many people are unaware of Hepatitis B and hence are getting infected unknowingly, of recent there is a student of Fort Portal School of Clinical officers who died of Hepatitis who also got infected unknowingly, hence the prevalence of the disease in Kabarole district is increasing and health sector has not put much effort towards preventing it. (Kabarole district HMIS, 2015-2016)

Therefore, this project is important since it aims at achieving the following objectives:

·      To let community members know the cause of hepatitis B disease

·      To let the people know how its prevented

·      To let people know who should get Hepatitis B vaccine

Therefore with the above , awareness about hepatitis B, prevention and treatment will be created among the community members which would reduce prevalence hence the project should be sponsored.

PERSONAL VALUE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT

·      The project will benefit me by getting more knowledge about hepatitis B disease its prevention and treatments.

·      The project will benefit me by getting experience to communicate to people

·      The project would help me to know how to carry out community mobilization

References

Emmanuel Ochola, Ponsiano Ocama, Christopher G. Orach, Ziadah K Nankiga, Joan N Kyalyango, Willi McFarland and Charles Karamagi (2013) High burden of hepatitis B infection in Northern Uganda. BMC Public Health 2013 13:727

Kabarole district Health Management information System, 2015-16

http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/digestive-diseases-hepatitis-b#3-8