Organisations and Research Institutions That Involve People In The Immediate Vicinity Increase The Number of Programme Participants Engaging In Health Seeking And Behaviour Change Practice: Lessons From MOD Public Health Foundation, MOD Public Health Consultants And Public Health Steering Team Uganda (PHSTU)
Figure 1: Staff of MOD Public Health Foundation during the debriefing meeting to Engage Local Communities In The Immediate Vicinity called Kimaanya A, Masaka City. Building a critical mass of participants engaged in positive seeking practices contributes to better Health Outcomes in various communities. any Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Government Organisations, Research Institutions, and Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) including MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda, have a tendency to target communities far out and miss those in their immediate vicinity. This has repercussions that in turn affect the affinity of people in the immediate vicinity toward the Organisations. This realization occurred to the MOD Public Health Foundation when two or three participants in an outreach activity we conducted remarked in unison: "We always see you going to conduct health education activities elsewhere but wondered when we would be targeted too." This w...