Exploratory Community Outreach Outcomes for African-born Immigrants in California 2016

Introduction:

Activities involved planning community health activities geared at improving understanding good nutrition practices; health seeking practices for quality healthy outcomes; conducted 208 Focus Group meetings; conducted 120 meetings with Key Informant; Local/Loci exploration of Health-related resources; generating reports.

Venues: 

Fremont, Richmond, Antioch, Moraga, San Leandro, Pittsburg, Dublin, Lafayette, Bakersfield, Berkeley, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose, Pasadena, San Bernardino, Fremont, Ventura, Glendale, Stockton, Silver Spoons-24th/Mission San Francisco; Balboa Restaurant San Francisco; Ashkenaz in Berkeley; San Leandro, Castro Valley, Richmond; Van Nuys, Vacaville, Santa Rosa, Antioch, San Rafael; Berkeley, Oakland; San Jose; Nigerian/Ghanaian/Sierra Leonean/Gambian Communities; Lutheran Church in Oakland;universal Unitarian Church SF; Islamic Mosques in Oakland and Berkeley. 

Numbers reached:

Adults: 8,000

Children (9-21 years): 1,250

Households visited: 350

Challenges:

Small community organizing among African-born immigrants in USA has its challenges;

i). Africa-born immigrants live in community settings where pioneer peers settled first. Through peer-to-peer networks can one generate consensus and motivation for many to participate in meetings or community activities such health seeking activities. Examples of peer-to-peer networks range from: ethnicity-based groups; gender-based groups; trauma support based-groups; faith-based groups; place of origin-based groups; year of arrival-based groups; job specification-based groups; and abilities-based groups (sports, recreation, music, dance and drama). These are all social matrices in which African-born immigrants identify and socialize. It requires dedicated time to engage, create rapport and develop a working relation with African-born immigrants. It requires a funded organization to lead this kind of work.

ii). Africa-born immigrants live in different cities. Whereas it is possible to meet with them through peer-to-peer networks, one has to have reliable transportation as well as means of abode such as a hotel which can also act as a meeting venue.

iii). A common admission among many African-born immigrants is: perception that health seeking as a practice is alien to them. There are two entwined beliefs; the tendency of invincibility and inability to link behaviors to vulnerability and risks.

iv). Subsistence is an important aspect to livelihood. Work is a major source of income or resources. However, some Africa-born immigrants have disabilities and traumatic pasts. Many have not sought professional support. This has led to some instabilities, substance-abuse and homelessness. 

v). Africa-born immigrants have not positioned themselves as full beneficiaries of services in USA. The 8 D’s is a simple range of themes under which organization can be analyzed and they are: Dance themes, drama themes, dress, dialogue themes, dietary themes, disease coping themes, documentation/Civic Duty themes, development themes.

Solutions:

i). Africa-born immigrants live in community settings where pioneer peers settled first.It requires dedicated time to engage, create rapport and develop a working relation with African-born immigrants. It requires a funded organization to lead this kind of work.

ii). Africa-born immigrants live in different cities. Reliable transportation as well as means of abode such as a hotel which can also act as a meeting venue.

iii).  The tendency of invincibility and inability to link behaviors to vulnerability and risks requires planned community interventions by use of peers; testimony giving; providing resources in form of culturally and linguistically appropriate education materials.

iv). Seeking mental and health professional support and interventions helps improve one’s adjustment skills in society.

v). Africa-born immigrants need to position themselves as full beneficiaries of services in USA. The 8 D’s is a simple range of themes under which organization can be analyzed and they are: Dance themes, drama themes, dress, dialogue themes, dietary themes, disease coping themes, documentation/Civic Duty themes, development themes. These can be used to access logistical support from different service provision points.

Conclusion:

Support groups among African-born immigrants is an opportunity to engage in practices that improve on their health seeking practices and general quality of health.

Support funds received from January-August 2016:

1. Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa   $1,800.00

2. Moses Kiyemba                          $  100.00

3. Borbor Goma                              $    50.00

4. Anna L.                                       $     20.00

Total                                                $ 1,970.00

Report

Supporting African-born immigrants to organize into small viable health communities is one way of ensuring they engage in health seeking practices. We at BayHeal, continue using volunteers to do outreach services and hopefully, we shall soon have facilitation to make this a formal activity.

We thank all of you for the support. We also thank the following for providing funds that helped to make this possible since January 2016.

Support funds received from January 2016:

1. Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa           $1,800.00

2. Borbor Goma                                       $     50.00

3. Anna L.                                                $     20.00

Total                                                         $1,870.00


Activities:

1. February 2014

Compiling and Mapping a list of venues and events where Africans in the Bay Area live and socialize.

familiarizing excursion around the Bay Area first and last Sunday of the month.

Making a list of Universities, Education Institutes, Colleges and Schools where Africans go to.

The idea of Bay Area Healthy Living and Communication Support as a distinct health information, education, communication, equity and disparity stop gapping organization. Not to replace or replicate what "other civil rights" organizations are doing. This is an "essential" commodity/ consumer services organization.

Designed an inception note.

Designed a yearly strategic volunteer plan to meet and greet Americans and Africans.

2. March 2014

Field excursion to generate health needs for Africans following the Ebola Epidemic in Africa.

Borrowed $ 1,900 from Mr. Selwyn Jones to help me meet the expenses of meeting and talking to Africans in the Bay Area.

Joined the UCSF/ACTG/CAB as a volunteer.

3. April 2014

Purchase a Toshiba laptop to use during research and note taking in the field.

Purchase a mobile Phone to provide communication link with various respondents.

Continuing with the research work.

4. May 2014-September 2014

Travel to meet Africans in the Bay Area ( Richmond, Dublin-Pleasanton, Millbrae, San Jose..).

Compare experiences with San Rafael, Oakland, Daly City and San Francisco.

Ebola Epidemic continues to affect the way Africans socialize and work.

Volunteer with African Advocacy Network as a health Strategist.

Press conference and awareness raising on impact of Discrimination, Ebola and need to engage 

Africans and Americans in conversation/dialogue to address misconceptions.

A draft of the Bay Area Healthy Living Support and Communication Platform ready.

Literature review on immigration health in USA and California.

Drafted and disseminated Key Informant Guide questions among Africans living in Bay Area.

Work on a social calendar that lists places and social events in which Africans are seen in large numbers continues.

A template for Universal Social and Cultural Events for Africans in the Bay Area emerges. (USEs/UCEs). This can be used as a mobilization tool.

5. October 2014-June 2015

Designing a front loader organization, easily managed that will not be bogged down by rhetoric and no action once we start implementing.

Identifying African originated  viable Community based Social Organizations or Venues ( E.g. Angola/Mozambique singing group that meets at Silver Spoons-24th/Mission; Balboa Restaurant; Ashkenaz in Berkeley; Kenyan Community Harambee in San Leandro, Castro Valley, Richmond; Ugandan Community in Antioch, San Rafael; Berkeley, Oakland;  Zimbabwean Community in San Jose; Nigerian/Ghanaian/Sierra Leonean/Gambian Communities; Tanzanian Communities meeting at the Lutheran Church in Oakland; the Islamic Mosques as meeting places for various Africans & Sports/Recreation/Music/Dance/Drama as a galvanizing entity for Africans especially Eritreans, Somali and Ethiopians; using Radio and Facebook by Ugandans, Kenyans, Nigerians, Sudanese and South Sudanese).

Identifying and scouting for Board of Directors to report to and help galvanize leadership to results as well as value for money outputs.

Interacted with, asked the support, help, or guidance of: Professor Annie Luetkemeyer, Dr. Paul Volberding, Dr. Hiroyu Hatano, Paul Klees, Jack Beck, Austin Padilla, Goma Bobo, Samuel Mwangi, Dr. Kiapi Sandra, Dan Katende, Githongo Watua, Derrick Mapp, Jay, Mike Ochieng, Bhamira Augustine, Vasco Da-Gama, Lopez M. and other eminent persons.

Registered as not-for-profit (CORP ID: 3790333).

Plan to have bank account.

Share June 2015-May 2016 Strategic Plan( office Space, Key/Resource Tool, Training African Leaders & engaging service providers.

Fundraise

Resource mobilization

Received our Tax ID/EIN: 47-4266549.

6. July 2015-June 2016

Continued lobbying, community events, navigation work and Identifying African originated  viable Community based Social Organizations or Venues ( E.g. Angola/Mozambique singing group that meets at Silver Spoons-24th/Mission; Balboa Restaurant; Ashkenaz in Berkeley; Kenyan Community Harambee in San Leandro, Castro Valley, Richmond; Ugandan Community in Antioch, San Rafael; Berkeley, Oakland;  Zimbabwean Community in San Jose; Nigerian/Ghanaian/Sierra Leonean/Gambian Communities; Tanzanian Communities meeting at the Lutheran Church in Oakland; the Islamic Mosques as meeting places for various Africans & Sports/Recreation/Music/Dance/Drama as a galvanizing entity for Africans especially Eritreans, Somali and Ethiopians; using Radio and Facebook by Ugandans, Kenyans, Nigerians, Sudanese and South Sudanese). Identifying and scouting for Board of Directors to report to and help galvanize leadership to results as well as value for money outputs.

Continued interacting with: Katie Hale, Toby Childs, Austin Padilla, African Empowered Communitie-USA, Professor Annie Luetkemeyer, Dr. Paul Volberding, Dr. Hiroyu Hatano, Paul Klees, Jack Beck, Austin Padilla, Goma Bobo, Samuel Mwangi, Dr. Kiapi Sandra, Dr. JB Ssentongo, Mr. Luwalagga Denis, Dan Katende, Githongo Watua, Derrick Mapp, Jay, Mike Ochieng, Bhamira Augustine, Vasco Da-Gama, Lopez M. and other eminent persons.

Engaged in further  exploratory and movement building activities in: Fremont, Richmond, Antioch, Moraga, San Leandro, Pittsburg, Dublin, Lafayette, Bakersfield, Berkeley, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose, Pasadena, San Bernardino, Fremont, Ventura, Glendale and Stockton.  Activities involved cursory: Focus Group/Key Informant meetings; Ground zero exploration of Health-related resources; generating a  inception report to be used for generating funding proposals.

Completed all eligibility criteria for Federal government funding. Opened up a US bank organizational bank account. 

Generating grant seeking proposals.

We have engaged in 300 community events since 2013. The community events were: environmental health-related; endocrine-disease related campaigns; social justice related campaigns; civic duty related campaigns; community clean up campaigns; safe needle distribution; senior citizen care campaigns; substance use awareness campaigns; HIV testing; Physical activity campaigns; community food distribution and many others. 

Thank you so much!

Anti-Black or White Supremacy:the archeology behind all this. An essay

Do not bother dismantling anti-Black or white supremacy. Rather establish opportunities for general human supremacy. Black and white color markers for right and wrong or fair and ugly is part of a heritage carried over from Europe. Powerful far impacting infrastructure, has been in place for many years to elevate white and burnish black. Don't waste time in "fighting" differentness. Rather embrace it. Embrace diversity.

Black and white is a dichotomy so steeped into the deliberations that took place at Nicene a long time ago or to a time before that. It will be like asking a repainting of God Almighty (White) and the Lucifer (Black) into other colors. 

Queen Elizabeth (I) presided over a long, relatively stable and prosperous reign for 44 years. The Elizabethan era is named for her (Woody Harrelson). She expelled ‘negars and blackamoors' from Britain in 1601. Color plays an important part in the book The White Devil (Color Symbolism). Towards the end of the play, when the action moves towards the final murders, black is used more frequently to accentuate the atmosphere of evil and despair:

Francisco talks of Brachiano’s imminent death:

‘Now to the barriers.

This shall his passage to the black lake further,'

(Act 5 scene 2)

The words of a very old nursery rhyme extracted from colorism by Nadra Kareen Nittle, go as follows:

“if you’re black, stay black;

If you are brown, stick around;

If you’re yellow, you’re mellow;

If you’re white, you’re all right.

The impact of religious beliefs upon the reading of colors cannot be separated from historical influences, as world events like the crusades and colonization went hand in hand with the spread of missionaries. Symbolism associated with light and darkness was probably derived from esoteric tradition—astrology, alchemy, Gnosticism and forms of Manichaeism. In the fifth century C.E., black became the color of the devil and demons (Nederveen Pieterse, 1992).

There is a tendency of patronizing instead of actually taking time to hear other people's stories.  A side (courts and police) dismisses the complaints of mistreatment of another as if the complaints never occurred.  Police, government, media and schools – all with histories of overt racism, brutality, and segregation – continue to operate behind mythologies of urban danger and destruction that lead to veiled policies of discrimination locally (Robert E. Gutsche, 2012). One side preaches religions whose theology continues to paint black as fallen and white as angelic. People still think the mark of sophistication is to be street-wise or driving a car and primitivity is to be laughed at. We miss the story of the one who is said to be "primitive." One may not be street-wise but that does not mean they lack a certain sophistication which enables them to actualize in a familiar environment.

I would encourage an alternative called human supremacy for those who genuinely want to build firm bridges. It delineates its objectives and does not encourage ambivalence.  This is no smiling discrimination or 'now you see it, now you don't' aspect. Exclusionary discrimination written in a code only white people know is meant to perpetuate classicism and racism (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2006). The examples of coded language embodied in the World Bank and IMF deliberately keeps say, African countries subscribing to what are termed development programs. Africa up to now only has one kind of Cape Town or Johannesburg and those cities cannot be replicated in 10's or 20’s. White people talk of their European heritage with pride. Many US-born Black Americans can not counter misinformation about Africa (sensationalized by mainstream media). The news about Africa goes on and on about how it is riddled with wars, a desolate place with poverty every where. Many do not question whatsitsname media house’s legitimacy of such news.  Chained by fear and lack of economic wherewithal to travel keeps blacks in their small communities. Worse, Diaspora black African-born immigrants who would have demystified given angles of the news are busy earning what they need to use to pay for subsistence. No room for conversation. Meanwhile. white people can afford to visit Oslo, Copenhagen, Athens, Rome, Florence, Stuttgart, Moscow and Edinburgh or wherever they feel they have roots frequently.

Human supremacy addresses economic, social, intellectual, cultural and technological empowerment. These are the true tools used to break barriers that stoke wistfulness and inequality. All races have places they call holiday destinations or ancestral destinations. Arabs have many places in Africa and Arabian peninsula. Asians have many in the different Asian countries. South America has very beautiful well maintained destinations. To change the image of who a black human being is will require making alliances. Likely alliances will be made with cultures that are emerging from countries such as the BRICS to bring about this. Perhaps instead of racism we proactively engage in developmentism, empowerment and emancipation. We need to start narratives where support, empowerment, building thriving communities and things that work are chronicled.

We should teach people to chronicle the things they do better, inventorying reward systems and celebrating accomplishments are aspects that need to be introduced to all communities. Mental/intellectual, social, physical and cultural preparation builds a critical mass of people who can be trained to be self sufficient. Skills are a leveler as far as race relations go. Skills promote interpersonal relations at intra and inter race levels.

To lead a quality life, we need to have good roads, good doctors, good police, job security for all employed people, good schools and we have to be able to treat our mother Earth with conscientious regard. We need to maintain the schools, our communities and empower as many people to do so. Knowing this and preparing as many black, whites, Asians, Latinos and Native Americans as possible is what matters. We need to have ladders put into wells to get those at bottom to the top. We need each other but we need to be well prepared and skilled to be marketable as well.

Free speech allows derogative language to sip through well censored platforms. Privacy too allows bigotry and subtle separatism to continue. But, we cherish free speech, privacy and sustainable communities.  If we are to uphold privacy, we need to empower as many people to enjoy their private homes. Free speech, privacy have a third sister who is sustainable communities. People who are empowered will be able to live in sustainable and thriving communities. 

After 5, 10, 70, 80, 90, 100 years we shall be dead. We need to lead productive lives and not be bogged down by a naughtiness to always load it over those who are different from us.

References:

                  Color symbolism. Retrieved from: http://crossref-it.info/textguide/the-white-devil/32/2243. Retrieved on July 2016.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. 2006. Racism without Racists. Rowman  & Littlefield Publishers Inc.

Nadra Kareem Nittle. Race Relations Expert. Retrieved from: http://racerelations.about.com/bio/Nadra-Kareem-Nittle-60956.htm. Retrieved on July 20th 2016.

Nederveen Pieterse 1992 Jan Nederveen Pieterse. White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Woody Harrelson. Queen Elizabeth I: Biography. Retrieved from: http://www.biography.com/people/queen-elizabeth-i-9286133. Retrieved on July 22nd 2016.

Robert E. Gutsche. 2012. “This Ain’t the Ghetto”: Diaspora, Discourse, and Dealing with “Iowa Nice.” Retrieved from: http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=poroi. Retrieved on July 20th 2016.

Immigrant trivia for you brought by BayHeal

Office of Minority Health is under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of health and human services

In 1985, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a landmark report, the Secretary's Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health (Heckler Report). 

It documented the existence of health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. The Office of Minority Health (OMH) was created in 1986 as one of the most significant outcomes of the Heckler Report and was reauthorized by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. 

The mission of OMH is to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. In addition to the great work being done at OMH to address disease prevention, health promotion, risk reduction, healthier lifestyle choices, the use of health care services, and barriers to health care for racial and ethnic minorities, they also provide access to a wealth of resources for the public.

References:

http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/OMHHE.html.

http://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlid=3.

Please feel free to call Tom on +14152990297 for more information on how we can work with you.

A primer for understanding needs and preoccupations of African, Atlantic & Indian ocean Islands-born Immigrants in USA

The 8 D’s (Dance themes, drama themes, dress, dialogue themes, dietary themes, disease coping themes, documentation/Civic Duty themes, development themes).

Health Screening and Holistic Health Conscientization by 2017

We shall engage all the African Immigrant/Refugee groups, association and entities in owning skills to demand for health screening and information for:

1. Hearing and Vision Screenings

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco with hearing and vision screening information (e.g., balance and vestibular evaluation, comprehensive hearing tests). Anticipated reach using peer driven messaging (PDM) by second wave: 3,000 persons.

2. Health Risk Assessments

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco with health risk assessments information (e.g. cardiac and cholesterol, male health, male wellness, female health, female wellness).

3. Health Education


Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco with messages on nutrition, physical activity and advantages of regular medical check ups. We shall generate action plans using the 'NASH' modelling. This framework mainstreams nutrition, activity, sanitation and health goals as part of planning and outcomes. 


4. BMI and Blood Pressure Determination

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco with messages and action plans on weight watching.

5. Blood Glucose and Pre-Diabetes Assessments

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco with messages on watching glucose intake and calorie burning techniques as Diabetes prevention practices at community level


6. Age-related Counselling and Support

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on age-related health, needs and referral opportunities.

7. Mother and Child Health Counselling and Support

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on practices promoting family health, well mother and child needs and support.

8. Men, health and wellbeing counselling and Support

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco to specifically empower men/males to own health improving skills.

9. Referrals and Support based on your needs

Output by 2017:
We shall have empowered individuals to make self-assesment and generated  positive living action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco.

10. Avoiding accidents and hazards

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on understanding accidents and hazards in USA.

11. Civic Duty and community Policing

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on how to increase participation in community events using localized social calendars.

12. Sexual Assault, HIV transmission and the Law

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco and empowered them with peer to peer information sharing skills to improve informed decisions and awareness around Sexual assault and grounds for criminal sexual offenses in USA.


13. Musculoskeletal and physiotherapy needs assessment

Output by 2017:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on body changes as people grow or engage in physically strenuous activities and how to still remain healthy.

13. HIV-related skills:

We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco; developed and shared social decision support tools* reinforcing their Knowledge of services and Prevention Resources: e.g.; 


http://hivcare.org/
http://www.socio.com/happa.php.
https://www.facebook.com/HivPrevJustice/?fref=nf.
https://start.truvada.com/.
New Prevention Technologies (microbicides, diaphragm, female condom)

HIV-related medical check ups:

Positive living care
Positive living literature
HIV testing
STD check ups

* The Social Decision Support Tools (SDST) include: Diaries, calendars, directional locations of social/health/Human Services points and Community organizations that provide services including places of worship.

© Tom RMM
Contact telephone: 415-299-0297 (Pacific Standard Time)

Anti-HIV Movement Building For Immigrants and Refugees in USA

We shall engage all the African-born Immigrant/Refugee groups, association and entities in owning skills to demand for health screening and information in the following thematic areas:


1. Health Education


Output by 2017-2027:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco with messages on nutrition, physical activity and advantages of regular medical check ups. We shall generate action plans using the 'NASH' modelling. This framework mainstreams nutrition, activity, sanitation and health goals as part of planning and outcomes.


2. Age-related Counselling and Support

Output by 2017-2027:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on age-related health, needs and referral opportunities.

3. Mother and Child Health Counselling and Support

Output by 2017-2027:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco on practices promoting family health, well mother and child needs and support.

4. Men, health and wellbeing counselling and Support

Output by 2017-2027:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco to specifically empower men/males to own health improving skills.


5. Sexual Assault, HIV transmission and the Law

Output by 2017-2027:
We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco and empowered them with peer to peer information sharing skills to improve informed decisions and awareness around Sexual assault and grounds for criminal sexual offenses in USA.

6. HIV-related skills:

Output by 2017-2027:

We shall have identified community leaders and engaged in dialogue and generated action at 60 venues from Berkeley, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Omaha, Fayetteville, Anchorage, Chicago Lexington, Boston, Waltham, Atlanta, Worcester, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Huntsville, Montgomery and San Francisco; developed and shared social decision support tools* reinforcing their Knowledge of services and Prevention Resources: e.g.; 

http://hivcare.org/

http://www.socio.com/happa.php.

https://www.facebook.com/HivPrevJustice/?fref=nf.

https://start.truvada.com/.

New Prevention Technologies (microbicides, diaphragm, female condom)

Integrated HIV-related medical check ups:

Positive living care

Positive living literature

HIV testing and complementary services

ARV initiation

STD check ups

We shall eventually develop a network to collaborate, share experiences as well as act as a link with each other.

© Tom RMM
Contact telephone: 415-299-0297 (Pacific Standard Time)