PATIENT IDENTIFICATION CHALLENGE; Uganda
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Cervical cancer screenings
Learn more about the Patient Identification Challenge and why identifying individuals in need of medical treatment and finding ways to make that treatment accessible reduces poverty.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
The Count Down to Zero Initiative (C2Z) aims to reduce cervical cancer-related mortality by increasing access to cervical screening services through a community-led approach, embracing high-impact partnerships, and optimizing sustainability with green energy solutions distribution of the world's existing poverty interventions.
C2Z aims to create a community-driven, cost-effective, and accessible cervical cancer screening and referral program in three sub-counties (Gweri, Kamuda and Dakabela) of Soroti District by:
Empowering Community Resource Persons (CRPs) to promote screening and referrals, prioritizing male involvement for shared household decision-making.
Procuring portable, reusable equipment and enhancing partnerships with nursing institutions, other maternal health partners and government healthcare workers to provide screening services through static and mobile clinics.
Facilitating referrals for VIA-positive women using sustainable transportation solutions like battery-charged bicycles
Dr. Gilbert Elijah Sangadi and Dr. Fridah Akello are experienced public health experts and medical doctors. They co-founded the Count Down to Zero Initiative to provide accessible cervical cancer screening in Uganda’s Teso region. With Dr. Sangadi's expertise in public health management and Dr. Akello's focus on maternal & child health and HIV/AIDS care, they are dedicated to reducing cervical cancer-related mortality through innovative, community-driven healthcare solutions.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
C2Z will reach not less than 736 men and 1472 women with messages; screen 552 women for Cervical Cancer using Visual Inspection with acetic acid (VIA), refer and link all VIA-positive women for treatment and support.
Their model has three (3) key distribution units; 46 Community Resource Persons and 18 healthcare workers trained and facilitated to offer CaCx literacy, screening and referrals from 3 static clinics and 9 outreaches.
Raise additional USD 27,000 for the scale up.
FOUNDING TEAM
Dr. Sangadi Gilbert Elijah - Project Coordinator
Dr. Fridah Akello - Quality and Knowledge Management Advisor