Good HEALTH and well-being are vital for development, and ADPP seeks to support individuals and communities in systematically preventing, treating and overcoming communicable disease and in adopting healthier lifestyles
ADPP’s health work is based on the premise that by mobilising communities through knowledge empowerment, and facilitating access to prevention and treatment, people’s behaviours will change and they will live more fulfilling and healthy lives. This is done by working with schools-based programmes, via Community Health Agents programmes or a combination of both.
Irrespective of approach, the aim is to enable individuals to make conscious and informed decisions about personal health, families to take measures for the whole household and community members to work together to reduce or eliminate sources of infection and disease.
ADPP's community health work is carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and local administrations.
Direct beneficiaries
Schools
Community Health Agents
COVID-19 RESPONSE
MALARIA
COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MALARIA
Teachers, pupils and locally recruited community health agents together created an environment of knowledge and practices to help people take positive charge of their own health. 9,000 families and 150 schools participated. Exploring new avenues to reach ever more people, the project created links between sport and the dissemination of health messages. Inter-school tournaments and sports clubs provided a stage for talks and campaigns about malaria, HIV and TB.
NATIONAL FORUM FOR MALARIA PARTNERS
ADPP has chaired the National Forum for Malaria Partners since 2012. The Forum works to strengthen public-private partnerships with civil society and ensure support for the National Malaria Control Program in the implementation of the National Strategic Plan.
HIV/AIDS
HIV TREATMENT ADHERENCE
Pregnant women with HIV received the practical and psychological support they needed to stay in treatment and ensure their children had the best possible chance to beat the disease thanks to the continuous presence of activists in their lives, through telephone calls, home visits and sessions at health clinics. In addition, the activists assisted people of all ages to adhere to anti-retroviral treatment while changing attitudes and conceptions about HIV. This personal support was greatly appreciated as it tackled the feeling of isolation that affected many patients, and that frequently led to depression.
PREVENTING HIV/AIDS AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN
ADPP’s Girls Clubs are a way of reaching adolescent girls and women with information, advice and assistance regarding HIV. Young women are particularly vulnerable because of a lack of knowledge of sexual and reproductive health combined with entrenched gender attitudes plus stigma about HIV. After reaching 22,500 girls in the first phase, ADPP expanded the project and exceeded the goal of 25,000 in 2019.
TUBERCULOSIS
DOT COMUNITÁRIO TB
Como parte do primeiro projecto piloto de tratamento comunitário de TB em Angola, os activistas da ADPP trabalharam com funcionários em 7 hospitais no Kilamba Kiaxi e Cazenga, acompanhando 3.228 pacientes em tratamento de TB e, simultaneamente, encaminhamento de pessoas com possíveis casos de TB, inclusive crianças, para teste. Os ativistas também disseminaram mensagens chave de prevenção na comunidade e alistaram 1.719 padrinhos designados para auxiliar na observação direta da ingestão de medicamentos.
WATER & SANITATION
INCREASES COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH ACCESS TO WATER
The project, implemented by ADPP with CODESPA and financed by the Camões Institute and the EU, makes part of the Fortalecimento da Resiliência e da Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional em Angola (FRESAN) programme. Started in 2020, the aim of the project is to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water for communities in the municipalities of Ombadja and Curoca, Cunene.
The expected results are:
- 39 Communities increased access to water and established participatory and
sustainable water management. - 18 existing water sources rehabilitated or improved and 24 new water sources created;
- 39 small distribution systems rehabilitated or created
- 36,000 people affected; 60% women and 40% men participated in the actions
- 10 hectares with a drip irrigation system
- 900 (90%) of farmers adopted new techniques
- 18 new cattle feeders built and 2 hectares of additional pasture
CRONOGRAMA
AS METAS GLOBAIS
Reduzir a Mortalidade Materna
Acabar com Todas as Mortes Preveníeis em crianças abaixo dos 5 Anos
Acesso Universal a Cuidados Reprodutivos
Combater as Doenças Transmissíveis