Crunch Time
Suddenly, all of the projects that we have been trying to get rolling for the first half of the internship have swung into action! We have been trying to finalize the measurements for the liquid adherence measurement cards. We finished making liquid adherence charts (similar to the pill adherence charts), so that when the amount of liquid medication used is found by the dipstick, they can easily determine the patient’s adherence. Additionally, we have also been developing a job aid for the liquid adherence charts and finished the ones for pill adherence. Soon after finishing the pill adherence job aid, we got it translated into Siswati and dropped off a copy at ICAP for the Siswati to be proofread and checked for clarity. We hope to have the translated version sent to the print shop and printed for use as early as Monday.
Also, some of the English copies of our family planning brochure that we left out in the waiting room of the Baylor COE were used by the end of the week! Hopefully, when we get the Siswati version out, the information about family planning will spread even more quickly.
We also got a chance to sit down with a member of CHAI, who we have been in communication with regarding job aids. All the NGOs in Swaziland develop job aids for their technologies, such that there are repeats of job aids, job aids don’t get out to all of the clinics in the country, the jobs aids in the clinic are not updated when new regulations come out, etc. There is a real need for the organization of job aids created by NGOs, and CHAI is helping the Health Promotions Unit (Ministry of Health) create a database for the job aids and facilitate communication amongst the NGOs regarding the same. They are still at the beginning stages of this endeavor, and she asked us to help make a SOP. We hope to help with this in the coming week.