The women in the study received additional counseling, home visiting and community sensitization by peers, community lay men (" kojjas") community lay women (" sengas") and village health team (VHT) members.
Other initiatives include support to adolescent centres; production of materials; training of peer educators; and promotion of sensitization and communication programmes.
HIV and AIDS: WCARO will reach refugees and host communities in Cameroon, who are increasingly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS; train 3,000 service providers, volunteers and peer educators on community mobilization and sensitization on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PTMCT), on orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) and provision of life skills training for adolescents and youth.
The young Togolese peer educators of Agouè Health Center are leading a sensitization session to fourteen year-old students.
Awareness is enhanced through health education programmes provided during ANC visits, media (TV, radio, newspapers), sensitization by community leaders, and word of mouth through peer to peer interactions among mothers.
Several community-based interventions with multiple activities, including awareness raising, sensitization and community participation and interaction, and peer support groups demonstrated significant changes in developing countries [ 1, 39].
Created by young people for young people, it has been elaborated to respond to the lack of sensitization tools for youth and to support trained peer educators' actions.
This resulted in having more home visits by peer and leaving the lay persons to concentrate on general health education and sensitization.
Thirty-seven teachers from six schools, including Soraya's, received nine days of training, followed by a three month-long sensitization programme during which they also trained 70 teenage students as peer educators.
Moreover, intensified sensitization of pregnant women at community and HF level, possibly involving peers or other local community representatives, on the usefulness and safety of IPT-SP was also emphasized to be another useful way of building or enhancing confidence among the pregnant women in IPTp services.
