Life Skills Education and Counseling - Nawampiti - Kivule Primariy School - Namutumba

Visit by Lorna Katagara on 2019-05-27

Report ID

5390

Created by

Lorna Katagara

Created date

2019-05-28 09:29:39 UTC

Modified by

Lorna Katagara

Modified date

2019-05-28 13:10:14 UTC

Trip Time

10:30-17:03 (6 h 33 m)

Village Time

13:00-15:05 (2 h 5 m)

Travel Time

4 h 28 m

Life Skills Education and Counseling community lesson

School

Kivule Primariy School 

Lesson Taught

Disease Progression and Positive Behaviour 

Girls Attended

0 

Boys Attended

0 

Total Student Attendance

0 

Teachers Attended

1 

Fathers Attended

7 

Mothers Attended

8 

Total Parent Attendance

15 

Staff Attendees

Lorna Katagara,Ongyera Manuella 

Government Attendees

LC1 

School Staff Attendees

Life Skills Teacher 

Visitor Attendees

Emma 

Total Attendance

0 

Learning Objectives

To encourage the community members to take an HIV positive through learning about the different stages through which HIV / AIDS travels in our bodies; Disease Progression and positive behaviors where the objective is to know that one has to take care of themselves when they are HIV positive and that HIV is not s death sentence.

Notes

Introduction Disease progression and positive behavior refers to the stages through which HIV travels while positive behavior is the way in which persons living with HIV need to live in order to take care of themselves and live longer. It is important to teach this lesson so that people don’t get reinfected or rather still infect others. Overview Manuela, Lorna and Emma went to Nawampiti to teach disease progression and positive behavior. Lorna taught this lesson on the previous visit however while doing the review none of them seemed to remember hence prompting them to reteach this lesson for better understanding and for knowledge purposes. Lorna welcomed Manuela to teach this lesson. Manuela told the community members that HIV is a very trick virus and it tends to hide therefore it is advised to get tested more than 3 times and this brought us to the first stage Window period. Window period is the time it takes for the HIV virus to be detected in the body. It is also the most infectious stage of all the stages. It usually takes between 1-3-6 months before the virus can be detected. The second stage is the incubation stage; this is the end of the window period stage and is the stage where signs that show that one has got HIV begins to show. It can take however even up to 15years and over before the signs start to show. It is at this stage that one needs to take very good care of themselves taking their medication and then they can move on the next stage honeymoon however if they don’t take good care of themselves, they will go straight to AIDs. Honey moon stage is the final stage whereby the virus and the body are at harmony with each other. The person is less infectious here and it doesn’t mean that they cannot pass on the virus but the chances of contacting it are minima. A mother also can breastfeed her baby with least chances of transmitting the virus to the baby. Here also the viral load is low and antibodies are high. They then went to positive behavior/living and here it was community centered where they mentioned what a person living with HIV needs to do to stay healthy and strong. They mentioned ; enough rest, eating a balanced diet and here Manuela emphasized eating greens, fruits, beans, small fish which are all readily available in the community as opposed to what they thought ; milk, meat, chicken. At the end there were many questions asked some in response to the topic and others not. Among the questions asked were; 1. How long can it take for a person to live with HIV without getting to Aids?. The answer was as long as they take care of themselves and treat every opportunistic disease. 2. Is it possible to have penetrative sex with a woman with HIV and not get it by just ejaculating. The answer was there is already Contact between the vaginal fluids and semen. Therefore whether one just ejaculates or withdraws one is at risk of contracting HIV as there is no bypass. 3. How long should an HIV positive mother breast feed their baby. This depended on whether the mother is a risk mother or not. A risk mother will not be allowed to breast feed their baby but the non risk mother can breastfeed up to 6 months. 4. What period should a person get tested for HIV? After every three months. 5. Can HIV positive parents have negative children?. The answer was yes it depends on the viral load ( amount of HIV ) in the body. It’s the determinant if it’s high no sex if it’s low with the advice of the medical personnel they can go ahead. Conclusion Even though it rained heavily which disrupted the community attendance, it was overall a great day. The youth representative and counselor of Nawampiti were all present and taking notes and asking loads of questions. 

Next Visit

2019-06-19 - Purpose: Have a general meeting with the community about parenting

Program Success

No

Program Critical Needs

Parental guidance ; how parents can take care of their children better

Program Ownership

Community participating by asking too many questions

Other Program Observations

Nawampiti has two boreholes whereby one of them is producing brownish water that the community believe is rust. The second borehole has its soak pit filled with water. We advised for borehole number 1 for them to get a sample of the water and take it to the water office at the district to avoid getting sick. The second one since the borehole is deep , Manuela and Lorna advised that they fill the pit halfway with rocks since it is deep and also dig a channel so the water flows into the gardens.

Program Expected Of Village

Attend the next meeting in larger numbers

Program Staff Preparations Next Visit

Prepare for the next lesson and call the chairman to remind him of the next meeting day.

 

Report Photos

The youth representative and counselor Nawampiti village.