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International Federation of Medical Student's Association-EgyptStanding Committee on Public Health - SCOPH


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Sore Throat AwarenessCampaign

project

Presented by

Ahmed Badawy

MSSA LPO 2010/2011


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Executive summery:

Sore Throat is an important public healthproblem in Egypt, The IFMSA Egypt SCOPH Sore Throat

Awareness Campaign aims to raiseawareness on Sore Throat and establish anational strategy among the medical

students to respond to the return of thedisease and to motivate them to addresspublic and patients increasing theirawareness on Sore Throat .

Sore Throat AwarenessCampaign.


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Our mission is to providepeople with a chance tobe fully aware of Sore

Throat as a dangerouswidespread disease.

Mission


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Briefly

1- To aware public about sore throat and its subseqentDangerous effects if not treated well

2- To hold seminars in collages to aware university students

3- To aware children in schools

4-to differentiate between sore throat and tonsillitis etc

Goals


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1St Phase: Gathering Data about Sore Throat : An information sheet was prepared including the following points: Number of registered Sore Throat patients in your departmentannually How do they get treated? Their Commitment to drug therapy?

What are the main problems that face physicians whiletreating a Sore Throat patient? Relation of their place of living to their infection.(Data are to be gathered from hospitals)

Methodology


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2nd Phase:

Team & posters preparing

Small Working group attended by the Local project coordinators inMenofia to discuss the best approach in order to plan for more effectiveevents to increase the expected outcomes &improve the efficacy of ourcampaign.

Team building & Training of trainers to be held locally in each LC: a) A team of at least 10 Scophians from each LC will be built.

The team will get trainings on the basic information about Sore Throatand its epidemiology in Egypt.

Methodology


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The training will cover the basic knowledge about Sore Throat (cause,mode of transmission, prevention and lines of treatment, methods of screening)

In addition to this, communication skills training will be given to teach them how todeliver a health educational message to a non-medical recipient.Materials preparationsTwo posters of different designs will be prepared: The first poster will include: symptoms & modes of transmission. The second poster will include: contact screening & compliance to treatment.The posters will contain pictures that will be simple, comic, self-illustrated &expressive with little illustrative talk in between in Arabic.Brochures in Arabic about sore throat cause, mode of transmission, preventionand lines of treatment, methods of screeningBig banners also simple and deliver the message

Methodology


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Methodology

3rd phase:Carrying out our campaigns:

1- University and Public places Visiting the University and Public places to increase their awareness of the importance

of strategy, and encourage them to take right medication Educating the family of the patient on how to deal with him, how to avoid getting

infected by Sore Throat , how and when should they seek medical advice. Hanging posters.2- Preparatory schools & factoriesExplaining the disease, its modes of transmission, ways of prevention, importance ofscreening


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Fund Rising

-Contact drugs companies and tell them about projectAnd see the interested ones

-Put a budget for local project And a budget for national

Project

-The budget will include flyers ,banners ,posters, pens for

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We do expect that by the end of the project, not only will

the targeted groups have the enough knowledge and theright awareness about Sore Throat , but also we would have

established a national strategy among medical students to

take an action towards Sore Throat and also we would have

created a team of motivated enthusiastic peer educatorswho are ready to be a part of a continuous national project

fighting against Sore Throat

Outcome


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Thank You

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