Kasanda

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4.1 HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM

There has been a drop in HIV/AIDS awareness in the sub county. The District Local Government Video teams cannot penetrate the hinterland of the sub county to keep awareness alive. To curb the spread of the disease there is need to increase awareness. There is no social welfare system. The clan fabric is overstretched; people get HIV/AIDS and have nowhere to run to but God. Church leaders are laying their congregations to rest with indecent haste. Burying on average 4 people a month. An average Church leader in Kassanda Sub County alone buries 48 AIDS/HIV victims a year. There is a Pentecostal church that closed when almost every one was down with HIV/AIDS.
Thanks to AIDS, there are 650 child-headed families in Kassanda Sub County (Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project – NECDP, 2001). According to the same survey, many senile grandparents were in charge of orphan 2730 of such cases.
Sex remains a myth best not spoken about. Ignorance is so high that some youth revealed in on KCF survey that jumping after sex could prevent pregnancy. The impact of the National HIV/ AIDS radio and TV campaigns here died out in the early 1990s. Now this left the district Video Campaign system. This is overstretched and has been only able to target main towns and only once in the last 2 years. Kassanda Sub County has a population of 58,324 people (2002 population census). These need to be reached at the tiny spots where they congregate in leisure times. Here people get all the information about the outside world mainly by word of mouth and radio. In the census of 2002, 45.9% of the population said word of mouth was the biggest source of information. 52% said used radio as main source of information. Kassanda has 59 congregated spots.
There is need for, Peer-to-Peer AIDS communication campaigns, HIV/AIDS awareness drives through video-shows, radio shows, REFLECT/ STAR programmes initiates, Behavioral Change Campaigns (BCC), Information Education Campaigns.

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