Mobile Hepatitis B Screening And Vaccination Ghana

Mobile Hepatitis B Screening And Vaccination Ghana

Virus targets
Hepatitis B
Type
Elimination
Setting
National
Other targets
COVID-19
Phase
Planning
Health outcomes
Prevalence
WHO region
African Region
Target goal
Country
Ghana
Key interventions
Hepatitis B Vaccination
Target population
All ages
Performance target
Hepatitis B vaccination coverage
Testing
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Health outcomes additional info

EDUCATION

CREATING AWARENES

DISSOOCIATING DISEASE FROM SPIRITUAL BELIEFS

Summary and objectives

There have been an in increasing rate of viral hepatis B infection in Africa which Ghana is not exceptional. According to afro WHO international research report 2022, 91 million Africans infected with deadliest hepatitis - WHO. Families of diseased people who are perceived to have died out of the condition are being tag or stigmatized. Many are unaware of the mode of transmission and are innocently getting infected day in and out. So, we wish to create massive awareness as much as we can within a maximum of two years. many individuals too turn to fall victims for local treatment because there is no medicine yet to cure the disease so we wish to roll out the screening and vaccination program as soon as possible to give them prevention instead of getting infected and falling prey to traditional medicines that compound the whole disease process and that will last for a period of six years. In as much as this infection is increasing in an alarming rate there seems no national any national elimination strategy for Ghana as cited in your (CGHE) national hepatitis elimination profile (N-HEP) hence the need to work towards developing a national elimination plan as a body that seeks to work towards hepatitis B, C elimination. There is a lot of individual and group vaccination programs going on without recognition or certification of which mobile hepatitis B screening and vaccination (MHBS&V) is included so we are working towards certification and recognition to fully roll out our vaccination plan. 

OBJECTIVES

1. Creating national awareness of the disease withing two years

2. Screening and vaccination of all age groups and to achieve a 95% vaccination of the people withing the country in six years' time

3. Educating the general public to see it as a medical condition that can be managed 

4. Developing a national vaccination plan

 

successes:

1.There has been an increase in awareness even though we are yet to develop a tool to measure

that

2. Testing and vaccinating people as much as we can

 

Challenges:

1. logistics

2.Laboratory

3. Office

4. recognition and certification

5. Transport

6. Funding

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