Health Awareness
Raise awareness and provide support for HIV/AIDS prevention, nutrition, and healthy living.
APDSS Health Awareness program empowers women, youth, elders, and whole communities with the knowledge, skills, and systems needed to prevent disease, seek care early, and live healthy lives in South Sudan. We focus on strengthening community health by equipping local health promoters, mothers, and youth leaders to share trusted information, reduce stigma, and build healthier communities beyond aid dependency.
Our Approach
- Preventive Health Education - Promoting hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, malaria prevention, HIV awareness, and maternal health so families can prevent illness before it starts.
- Community Health & Local Ownership - Building resilient local institutions, health committees, and community health promoters for knowledge sharing, referrals, and follow-up care.
- Wellbeing & Healthy Behaviours - Connecting health knowledge to action through mental health awareness, youth-friendly services, and healthy lifestyle choices so health becomes a foundation for peace and development.
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We train and support inclusive community health promoters, women leaders, and youth peer educators. Our trained promoters help families identify symptoms early, build trust in health services, refer patients to clinics, and reach locally-owned solutions that prevent disease and restore healthy relationships in the community.
We provide practical training in handwashing, clean water, latrine use, menstrual health, and balanced nutrition for families to stay healthy, keep children in school, and prevent outbreaks.
Through mothers groups, youth dialogues, and clinic partnerships, we help women access antenatal care, immunization, family planning information, and safe delivery, turning knowledge into lives saved.
