Projects

IBU Launch a New Project in Health Area

Wednesday, 05 August 2009 07:00

Today, IBU Foundation together with Ministry of Health, Telkomsel, and MCC launch a new project to fight against dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhage fever (DHF). This collaboration is called Peluk Asa which means Perlindungan Keluarga dengan Kasih Sayang (Protecting Family with Care).

According to WHO, Indonesia is in red zone of dengue infection in the world. After first outbreak in 1968 where 58 cases were reported with 41.3% case fatality rate (CFR) there seems no way back as the cases and number of people died keep going up. In 2006, Indonesia contribute 57% (106425) cases in SEARO countries, 1132 of them died, many are children.

As there's no medicine available to treat DF/DHF, we focus on promotive and preventive area. We use Behavioral Change Communication (BCC) method combined with Participatory Action Plan (PLA) to accomplish this. This method is based on suggested method by WHO called COMBI (communication for behavioral impact). The big goal of this project is to contribute to reduce dengue incidence and mortality in Indonesia.

For the first year we conduct pilot project in 14 cities in 14 Provinces all over Indonesia including Medan, Padang, Bandar Lampung, Balikpapan, East Jakarta, Depok, Bekasi, Cimahi, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Makassar, Manado, Mataram, and Sorong.

September 2008 Update on PISI

Monday, 06 October 2008 20:00

Posyandu Assistance has been started on September, after conducted project Socialization Workshop event on the last month. In the beginning, IBU made coordination with kaders from each village about posyandu schedule. Posyandu activities only could be conducted until a week before Idul Fitri. The community started to make preparation for Idul Fitri Celebration.

A few of midwives or puskesmas staffs didn’t attend posyandu activities because of some reasons, like sickness, there was no coordination with the midwives before doing posyandu event, and death of family member.

Immunization services also have been done at posyandu, but only small number of infants got basic immunization. A number of parents still refused to immunize their children.

This month, Cold-chain and Vaccine handling for midwives and other puskesmas staff could not be conducted. The community had a tradition to limit their activities on fasting month. We also did not make formal coordination with Puskesmas Immunization Coordination yet. She just had a new baby born and taking maternal leaves until the end of October.

Read more: September 2008 Update on PISI

September 2008 Update on PQSI

Sunday, 05 October 2008 07:00

After the Project socialization workshop, on the last week of August 2008 IBU arranged the Posyandu monthly escorting preparation such us set up monthly regular villages Posyandu venue and Schedule and IBU Posyandu escorting work plan. Started with supplementary food for posyandu distribution IBU arrange September 2008 posyandu regular activities.

Posyandu Activity

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Up until now, villages that conducted posyandu are 24 of 27 villages targeted . 3 villages (Hiligawoni, Ononamolo Tumula, Hilinaa) failed to conduct because of date activity schedule missed information from the head of the village. However the situations hope to be back on schedule next month.

On Posyandu September 2008, IBU refreshed and set the data of children u-5, lactating mothers, and pregnant as the new beneficiaries baseline. Next month’s achievements after will be compare with this new baseline.

Read more: September 2008 Update on PQSI