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Nova Scotia Sierra Leone sensitizing pregnant women

Nova Scotia Sierra Leone program has started a week long sensitization workshop for 50 pregnant women and community members on Internal Preventive Treatment and use of Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets Kenema city and its environs funded by Global Fund.
Giving an overview of the project the programme Manager Nova Scotia Sierra Leone Program John Kamara said the sensitization is part of an ongoing program which has provision for other activities like focus discussion, Information Education and Communication and home based management of Malaria in the home. Adding it is a strategy to ensure early recognition of prompt and effective response to malaria in the home and community thereby reducing illness and deaths among under five children due to malaria. 
He said the activities are being carried out by ex-peer health educators of the Nova Scotia Sierra Leone program from different schools in the city and it is expected to last for one week.
The involvement of the community is key in malaria prevention and control activities adding that it ensures home treatment for malaria safe more effective and accessible. Mr. Kamara revealed that the community Focus group discussion is targeting 1,900 people countrywide and 367 people in Kenema city, communities that are to benefit from the project including Nyandeyama, Torkpumbu and Kpetema sections in the city. He called on community’s leaders, pregnant women to support the programme to make the campaign a success story in the city
In his contribution Nosegay S. Fofanah the Assistant Regional Coordinator Nova Scotia Sierra Leone programme said the objective is to increase the percentage of under five children receiving prompt and effective anti malarial treatment within 24 hours onset of symptoms