Health & Hygiene
Health & Hygiene
Overview
MOC invests in efforts to improve health of vulnerable children. The organisation supports government programs to improve the quality, availability and use of high impact health services in hard-to-reach and impoverished communities. Health assistance is offered through the following strategies:
Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Through Sport: ASRH through sport was developed as a tool to complement and reinforce the Government of Zimbabwe’s efforts through the Ministry of Health and Child Care, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in the delivery of Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health services to youth in and out of school. ASRH messages are facilitated through sports. Sports represent a non-threatening environment whose principles the youth easily understand; hence the manual takes these sporting principles and translates them to ordinary life and then into lessons on aspects of sexual and reproductive health.
Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM): Is a sport-based HIV and violence prevention model which targets boys (9–14 years) and is facilitated by trained coaches. The aim is to have boys who respect girls and women, refrain from drug and alcohol abuse and prevent them from contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI).
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): ensures that young people have comprehensive information that is scientifically correct, age specific, culturally sensitive and empowers them to be productive citizens. Children from schools benefit as this was incorporated into the Guidance and Counselling Syllabus and teachers were trained to deliver.
Medical Assistance: Transport assistance is provided to beneficiaries undergoing CD4 count, collection of medical results and undergoing further assessments at referral institutions.
HIV/AIDS information dissemination: MOC offers Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials aiming to reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS. The organisation promotes safe practices and assists families to access counselling, healthcare and education services.