FINDING THE MISSING MILLIONS

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BWERA GENERAL HOSPITAL-KASESE-UGANDA Tittle FINDING THE MISSING MILLIONS topic COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE ON HEPATITIS B LIVER DISEASE IN UGANDA  AUTHOR BWAMBALE ARAFAT MEDICAL CLINICAL OFFICER/PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER we at BWERA GENERAL HOSPITAL/GREAT LAKES PEACE CENTRE are passionate about implementation of SDG that have direct impact within our indigenous community specifically taking on #SDG3 we are strategically carrying out specific interventions to scale up and look for the misssing millions of people with hepatitis b,our most effective and efficient way is scaling up  intergrated out reaches by screening community people in different community a model called focused community group FCG’s like out reaches in the market places,school visits ,home visits and worshiping places like mosques & churches  we carry out static or facility based client screening for those facilities that are with in our mapping areas in different constitues and sub counties its from these scaled up out reaches that we are able to reffer these clients to health centre iii/iv to be further reffered to hospitals that the health workers can further screen them ,health inform ,educate and communicate about the burden of hepatitis b  the clients can investigated for cbc ,viral load and other therapeutic manangement we are carrying out sensitization and a awareness at different points like community engagement ,given opportunity at burial places and wedding to reach out to people we have developed refferal letter for our mobilisers in community who give  clients refferel letters for screening and care ,management and treatment we have periodically participated in world health hepatitis day in uganda every ?28/7?/ since 2016 to date we conduct health workers and community stake holders like politicians and religious leader meetings to inform,educate, communicate IEC compact model we are working with few health facilities that offer vaccination services to reffer them there and we at GREAT LAKES PEACE CENTRE are able to make orders on behalf clients for the vaccines we are able to store the vaccine at facilities with EPI storage and vaccine carrier these further provide technique expertise of vaccinatimg these clients  we very much look foward to see our selves make humble contribution to finding missing millions of people with hepatitis b  we have been able to reach out about 1350 youth in the year 2017 to june/2018 the general number that we have been able to reach out to in our program is more than 2000 our limitations are about adequate suppplies and logistics both in public and private non for profit PNFP health service providers we shall need to intervene in areas of mother to child transmission as the infection can be transmitted to unborn child we are encouraging social behavial change SBC among general populations including keY populations like commercial sex workers ,trucker drivers ,drug users,homosexuals ,people in uniform,adolescents and youth most of our activites are in conjuction with other partners the national organisation of people living with hepatitis b in uganda  Youth empowerment initiative Medicine SAN frontier District health management team-kasese local government bwera hospital general hospital  As a young person this encompasses the true definition of peace as it’s not mere abscene of war rather social justice ,accountability and transparency “There is no way to be peace,peace is the way “ Friend in peace it can be done,play your part BWAMBALE ARAFAT Capacity building & mentorship officer patient advocate hep b Peace advocate UNSDG FINALIST AWARDEE Great Lakes Peace Centre