http://viewchange.org Videos from ViewChange.org (Filtered by topics: Health education) en-us Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:30:00 +0000 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/weathering-change-ramkeshari-and-renu Ramkeshari Shrethsa has been teaching women in Kathmandu about family planning for nearly two decades, since before climate change decimated the once-clockwork rainy season. Ramkeshari's daughter Renu is studying for a career in family planning education and believes it decreases the demand for shrinking natural resources. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/weathering-change-ramkeshari-and-renu Nepal, Family planning, Health education, Health, Reproductive health, Maternal health, Kathmandu, Environment, Climate change, Himalayas >> TITLE: Kathmandu, Nepal >> RAMKESHARI SHRESTHA: I started working in family planning about eighteen years ago. When we would go to temple people would have eight, nine, or six kids. At first it was difficult to go door to door. It was difficult to talk to people about condoms. Now it's very easy. Without me asking, they come to my house for family planning. It is very healthy for women. When there are fewer kids, it means less food and clothes. It's also good for the environment because we don't demand too much from it. Times have changed. We used to be shy about these subjects. The children today don't have any problem talking about it. >> RENU SHRESTHA: What people need the most is education. With education people can decide what is wrong and what is right. Consequently, they will become more conscious of the future. >> RAMKESHARI SHRESTHA: My daughter likes the work I do, so she comes with me. It makes me really happy that she has an interest in my work. >> RENU SHRESTHA: I'm very inspired by my mom. That's why I got involved. My mother would work all day without food in her stomach, all for the sake of our community. Her sacrifice inspired me to do the same thing. >> RAMKESHARI SHRESTHA: I'm so proud of her. I feel like she is the reward for my service. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/kiberatv-life-beyond-hiv Agneta Olouch, a primary school teacher in Kibera, was left alone to raise her children when her husband died of AIDS-related complications in 1995. When her health began to deteriorate rapidly, she discovered she was HIV positive herself. Out of this pain and hardship, she summoned the strength to start the Stawi Center, a community center for people of all ages living with HIV. Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/kiberatv-life-beyond-hiv Kenya, HIV, Health, Vertical transmission, Education, Health education, Kibera, Médecins Sans Frontières, KiberaTV, Hot Sun Foundation >> TITLE: KiberaTV >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH [Founder, Stawi Youth and Adult Center]: My name is Agneta Luta Olouch; I'm about 59 years old. I'm going to celebrate my 60th year this year. I am HIV positive, and I got healed when I went for medication because I used to be sick. But now when I got healed, I thought of starting a small project like Stawi. Stawi means, "to grow and prosper." At least bring people together. >> BENTA AGOLLA [Stawi Group Member/Teacher]: Stawi is composed of many groups. I'm in two groups at Stawi. I'm a member of the Post Test Club, that's a club that meets to share how they're living positive. >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH: Bring children together who are orphaned because of HIV and AIDS. >> BENTA AGOLLA: Also to play a role as teacher to the young children. I knew my status ten years ago when I was expecting my fourth child. There was a mandatory test for women who were expecting. So after that, I was just told, "you are positive." I broke down, I was in tears, and I thought I would die. >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH: There were aims of bringing people together to educate them on health education and treatment literacy, because some of the people, when they take medication they may not adhere. But when we come together for psychological support, we teach each other how to take medication. Those who have challenges, we share together. >> BENTA AGOLLA: After meeting Mama Agneta she counseled me, we talked together, and she took me for medication where I did prevention for mother to child transmission. >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH: The challenge we are facing so far with the group is that some of these PTC [Post Test Club] members, they are very weak and cannot afford things like nutrition to eat well. So if it could be my wish, we could have something to give them, like nutritional support. Some of them have many children who they cannot support. >> BENTA AGOLLA: ...I'm a mother of six. >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH: That's why we take them into the Stawi Children's Group, who come on Saturday to eat, and we give them psychological support. >> BENTA AGOLLA: The students are aged between two months and ten years. They feed here, they learn here. The basics: how to go to school, how to brush their teeth, how to comb their hair, the alphabet, the domestic animals, we do a lot. >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH: And that is not enough, because by the end of the day these children go back home. Usually, we are connected with MSF [Medecins Sans Frontieres] Belgium, the health clinic. They refer patients to us. We have achieved a lot, because I have seen people waking up from their sleeping beds and taking their medication without fear, without stigma. That's what makes me happy. >> BENTA AGOLLA: My daughter now is ten years. She's negative. >> AGNETA LUTA OLOUCH: I am a mentor to many of these people. They see that I was HIV positive, my husband died and left me with the children, and I educated them up to university level. So I tell them, why not you? And that one encourages them a lot. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/living-proof-nepal-community-health-workers-saving-lives Nepal's mother and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world, but now women are training each other as community health volunteers to save lives in their villages. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:33:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/living-proof-nepal-community-health-workers-saving-lives Nepal, Maternal death, Child mortality, Community health worker, South Asia, Save the Children, World Health Day, Community health, ONE Campaign, Health education >> TITLE: Part 2: The Volunteers >> TITLE: Challenge: Nepal's rates of maternal and child mortality are among the highest in the world >> TITLE: Solution: Train women to counsel mothers in their villages before, during, and after birth. >> TITLE: Can these empowered women save their children's lives? And their own? >> TITLE: Across Nepal, people work very hard for very little, and none work harder than lower-caste women. >> SARU: My name is Saru and I'm a female community health volunteer. I wake up at four every morning to feed the cattle and begin chores. I have to look after my kids -- one son and three daughters -- because I can't afford to send them to school. >> TITLE: Several years ago, Saru lost an infant. Her husband left soon after. >> SARU: I cannot describe the pain I felt when I lost my son. The pain is unbearable. He simply died of diarrhea without us knowing that we should've given him water. And we didn't have the money to take him to the hospital. He was crying for water when he died. >> DAVID OOT [Save the Children]: You've got very high under-five mortality rates still in Nepal, and particularly for older women. So the average age of a female community health volunteer is about 40 years. So virtually all of them would've experienced a death, oftentimes at home. So I think there is an appreciation and a special connection to others in their community who are at risk. >> SARU: So I thought, "I've lost my son. I should do something so that my fellow villagers don't go through a trauma like that." So I decided to become a volunteer. >> TITLE: New volunteers are trained at a class in Western Nepal. >> DAVID OOT: The Female Community Health Volunteers have played an important part in reducing under-five mortality by increasing the use of life-saving immunization services, treatment of pneumonia in children under five, and they have been at the forefront of providing information and, to some extent, services for family planning over the past 20 years, as well as increasing access to and use of skilled birth attendants at the time of delivery. >> DALLU: My name is Dallu. I became a volunteer to help women and children in the village. I think serving others is a big part of my religion. I always tell women to go to the hospital for delivery. But there are many who ignore this advice and deliver at home. >> DAVID OOT: The female community health volunteers have become an important source of information about clean home delivery practices. >> DALLU: We tell them that the traditional midwives don't know about hygiene. They don't sterilize equipment. And we urge the women to at least buy a clean home delivery kit. >> DAVID OOT: This program has served as a vehicle for elevating the status of these women, creating a sense of appreciation on the part of others in their community for what they do, bringing recognition to them, from both within their community but [also] from within the health system, and, in so doing, really creating a sense of empowerment on the part of these women. >> TITLE: Living Proof: Real Lives. Real Progress. >> TITLE: With support and guidance from global partners, Nepal is likely to reduce under-five child deaths by two-thirds by 2015, and the 45,000 female volunteers will deserve much of the credit >> TITLE: Living Proof: Real Lives. Real Progress. www.one.org/livingproof http://www.viewchange.org/videos/living-proof-egypt-newlyweds Reaching out to Egyptian women and couples as they are about to get married, a new program educates newlyweds and women about pregnancy, labor, and newborn healthcare. This vital information is improving infant health outcomes. Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:33:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/living-proof-egypt-newlyweds Egypt, Reproductive health, Community health worker, Millennium Development Goals, Child mortality, North Africa, USAID, Maternal health, Health education, Pregnancy >> TITLE: Challenge: Many Egyptian women lack proper pre- and post-natal care >> TITLE: Solution: Make weddings a time to discuss maternal and newborn health. >> TITLE: Can teaching newlyweds make healthier babies? >> TITLE: Traditional wedding celebration, Village of Gayera, Upper Egypt >> VIKKI STEIN [USAID]: Young couples in Egypt want to try to have a family or begin their family right after marriage. So, within a very short amount of time, women and men are experiencing their first pregnancy, they're experiencing their first birth, and they're raising their baby. These are all very critical health moments for a family, and women as a group when they're having their pregnancy, are seen as a high-risk group. You see women giving birth outside the medical facility. You see malnutrition, you see underweight babies, and so the newlywed initiative looks to give young families, young couples, the information they need to get off to a healthy start. >> MEDIHA ATTEYA [Newlywed]: It taught me the danger signs during pregnancy. Like, if I started bleeding, if I don't gain weight, or if I get a fever, I have to go to the doctor right away. >> VIKKI STEIN: A couple like Saad and Mediha and Kenna, participate in this program on a number of levels. They have a community health worker come and visit them and bring them information about the community health program, and also invite them to participate in community activities. >> WARDA HAMED ALY [Community Health Worker]: Don't have kids, one right after another. Space them out. We've made progress. In the past, our mothers used to have kids by the dozen, and that's why this country has so much poverty. >> HAJJA OM EZZ ABDU MAHMA [Saad's mother]: In my day, it was different. I had nine children at home: six girls and three boys, just like that. I didn't have a doctor. >> SAAD MOHD SAYED: Everyone goes to the hospital now. >> MEDIHA ATTEYA: Having a baby at home is dangerous. What if I start hemorrhaging? Nothing but the hospital will save me. >> TITLE: Newlywed Initiative women's meeting >> DOAA MEABED SAYED [Instructor]: I welcome you once again to the Arab Women Speaks. >> VIKKI STEIN: In the Arab Women Speak Out classes, women are taught about women's empowerment issues. They're taught men and women both need to be involved, and they both have an important role. >> DOAA MEABED SAYED: If a younger brother is thirsty, the mother says, "Get up, girl, and get your brother a glass of water." Is this the way to bring up our children? The most important thing I focus on is to make a happy family. We're here to modify everyone's behavior. To make happier and healthier families. >> MEN: Congratulations! >> TITLE: Living Proof: Real Lives. Real Progress. >> TITLE: Since the Newlywed Initiative began in 2004, 30 percent more pregnant women have proper prenatal care, 14 percent more mothers have medically assisted births, 27 percent fewer babies and young children are underweight. >> TITLE: Living Proof: Real Lives. Real Progress. www.one.org/livingproof http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-witch-doctor <p>When a Kenyan man discovers he is HIV positive, he turns to a traditional healer for help. But what advice will the witch doctor dispense? This light-hearted film has an important message about the relationship between modern medicine and folk treatments.</p> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-witch-doctor HIV, Health education, Witch doctor, HIV positive people, Traditional medicine, Kenya, Sexually transmitted disease, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Health >> TITLE: X Media Kenya presents >> TITLE: The Witch Doctor >> SIGN: Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment. LVCT. Building Partnerships, Transforming Lives >> SIGN: Please note: All HIV services are free >> WOMAN: Have a seat, please. Mr. Omau, first of all, I'd like to congratulate you for coming in voluntarily, and, like I said, you can still live a normal, healthy, productive life with HIV. Is there anything you'd like to know? >> MR. OMAU: No, there's nothing. Just tell me. >> WOMAN: The results are clear, and you're HIV positive. >> MR. OMAU: What do you mean I'm positive? >> WOMAN: It just means that the virus is active in your body. But it does not automatically mean that you have AIDS. >> WOMAN: Let me advise that you go to a hospital and have your T-cell count taken so that we can immediately start you on ARVs. This is our brochure. It has everything that you need to know about how to live positively with HIV. >> SIGN: An astrologer: Dr. Salim from Mombasa, astrologer for health problems, bad omen, a lost person, finances, broken marriage, impotence, 0711555555 >> DR. SALIM: Come in, my son. Tell me what ails you. >> MR. OMAU: I want you to help me. I've been unwell for quite some time now. I had this persistent cold, and, after that, I developed some swellings. Now, they want me to take this T-count test for HIV. I'm sure there's another way of doing this. >> DR. SALIM: Definitely. Yes, most definitely. >> MR. OMAU: We can do it traditionally or spiritually, but please, just tell me what you want me to do, and I'm going to do it. >> DR. SALIM: We shall consult the ancestors. >> MR. OMAU: What do I have to do? I hear if I sleep with a virgin, I can cleanse myself. Oh my god! >> DR. SALIM: Give me your right hand. Connect with your ancestors. Yes! >> MR. OMAU: No, I won't do some of these sacrifices. Stop it, please! There are some things I can't do. I won't cut anybody's genitals, and I won't drink any albino's blood. >> DR. SALIM: But you might have to! What then? You cannot back out now. Please will you hold this with you left hand. This is how you will connect with your ancestors, from your head to your heart right down to your feet. Clean! It is now too late to go back. The ancestors have spoken. Your answer is right here. Yes, young man. Let us go, let us move now. Ancestors. Do not worry, young man. You see, as the pamphlet says, you can still live a fully productive life even if you are HIV positive. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-nathan-wolfe-s-jungle-search-for-viruses <p>Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge (passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa) before they claim millions of lives.</p> Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:12:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-nathan-wolfe-s-jungle-search-for-viruses Nathan Wolfe, Epidemiology, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, Bushmeat, Virus, Cameroon, HIV, Pandemic, TED, Central Africa >> TITLE: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading>> TITLE: Nathan Wolfe>> NATHAN WOLFE: When most people think about the beginnings of AIDS, they're gonna think back to the 1980s. And, certainly, this was the decade in which we discovered AIDS, and the virus that causes it, HIV. >> TITLE: February, 2009. Long Beach, California.>> NATHAN WOLFE: But, in fact, this virus crossed over into humans many decades before, from chimpanzees, where the virus originated, into humans who hunt these apes.>> TITLE: Brazzaville, Congo, 1929>> NATHAN WOLFE: This photo was taken before the Great Depression in Brazzaville, Congo. At this time, there were thousands of individuals, we think, that were infected with HIV. So I have a couple of really important questions for you. If this virus was in thousands of individuals at this point, why was it the case that it took us until 1984 to be able to discover this virus? Okay, now, more importantly, had we been there in the Forties and Fifties, Sixties, had we seen this disease, had we understood exactly what was going on with it, how might that have changed and completely transformed the nature of the way that this pandemic moved?In fact, this is not unique to HIV. The vast majority of viruses come from animals. And you can kind of think of this as a pyramid of this bubbling up of viruses from animals into human populations. But only at the very top of this pyramid do these things become completely human. Nevertheless, we spend the vast majority of our energy focused on this level of the pyramid, trying to tackle things that are already completely adapted to human beings, that are going to be very, very difficult to address, as we've seen in the case of HIV.So, during the last 15 years, I've been working to actually study the earlier interface here -- what I've labeled "viral chatter," which was a term coined by my mentor Don Burke. This is the idea that we can study the sort of pinging of these viruses into human populations, the movement of these agents over into humans, and, by capturing this moment, we might be able to move to a situation where we can catch them early.Okay, so this is a picture, and I'm going to show you some pictures now from the field. This is a picture of a central African hunter. It's actually a fairly common picture. One of the things I want you to note from it is blood, that you see a tremendous amount of blood contact. This was absolutely key for us. This is a very intimate form of connection. So if we're going to study viral chatter, we need to get to these populations who have intensive contact with wild animals.And so we've been studying people like this individual. We collect blood from them, other specimens. We look at the diseases, which are in the animals as well as the humans. And, ideally, this is going to allow us to catch these things early on, as they're moving over into human populations. And the basic objective of this work is not to just go out once and look at these individuals, but to establish thousands of individuals in these populations that we would monitor continuously on a regular basis. When they were sick, we would collect specimens from them.We would actually enlist them, which we've done now, to collect specimens from animals. We give them these little pieces of filter paper. When they sample from animals, they collect the blood on the filter paper and this allows us to identify yet-unknown viruses from exactly the right animals, the ones that are actually being hunted.>> ANDERSON COOPER: Deep in a remote region of Cameroon, two hunters stalk their prey. Their names are Patrice and Patee. They're searching for bush meat: forest animals they can kill to feed their families. Patrice and Patee set out most days to go out hunting in the forest around their homes. They have a series of traps, of snares, that they've set up, and they'll catch wild pigs, snakes, monkeys, rodents, anything they can, really. Patrice and Patee have been out for hours, but found nothing. The animals are simply gone. We stop for a drink of water. Then there is a rustle in the brush. A group of hunters approach. Their packs loaded with wild game. There's at least three viruses that you know about, which are in this particular monkey.>> NATHAN WOLFE: This species, yeah. And there's many, many more pathogens that are present in these animals. These individuals are at specific risk, particularly if there's blood contact, they're at risk for transmission and possibly infection with novel viruses.>> ANDERSON COOPER: As the hunters display their kills, something surprising happens. They show us filter paper they've used to collect the animals' blood. The blood will be tested for zoonotic viruses, part of a program Dr. Wolfe has spent years setting up.>> NATHAN WOLFE: So this is from this animal right here: greater spot-nosed guenon. Every person who has one of those filter papers has at least, at a minimum, been through our basic health education about the risks associated with these activities, which presumably, from our perspective, gives them the ability to decrease their own risk, and then obviously the risk to their families, the village, the country, and the world.Okay, before I continue, I think it's important to take just a moment to talk about bushmeat. Bushmeat is the hunting of wild game, okay? And you can consider all sorts of different bushmeat. I'm going to be talking about this. When your children and grandchildren sort of pose questions to you about this period of time, one of the things they're gonna ask you is how it was they we allowed some of our closest living relatives, some of the most valuable and endangered species on our planet, to go extinct because we weren't able to address some of the issues of poverty in these parts of the world?But in fact that's not the only question they're going to ask you about this. They're also going to ask you the question that, when we knew that this was the way that HIV entered into the human population, and that other diseases had the potential to enter like this, why did we let these behaviors continue? Why did we not find some other solution to this? They're going to say, in regions of profound instability throughout the world, where you have intense poverty, where populations are growing and you don't have sustainable resources like this, this is going to lead to food insecurity.But they're also going to ask you probably a different question. It's one that I think we all need to ask ourselves, which is, why we thought the responsibility rested with this individual here. Now this is the individual -- you can see just right up over his right shoulder -- this is the individual that hunted the monkey from the last picture that I showed you. OK, take a look at his shirt, you know, take a look at his face. Bushmeat is one of the central crises which is occurring in our population right now, in humanity, on this planet. But it can't be the fault of somebody like this. Okay? And solving it cannot be his responsibility alone. There's no easy solutions, but what I'm saying to you is that we neglect this problem at our own peril.>> NATHAN WOLFE: So, in 1998, along with my mentors Don Burke and Colonel Mpoudi-Ngole, we went to actually start this work in Central Africa, to work with hunters in this part of the world. And my job ... at that time I was a post-doctoral fellow, and I was really tasked with setting this up. So I said to myself, "Okay, great. We're gonna collect all kinds of specimens. We're gonna go to all these different locations. It's going to be wonderful." You know, I looked at the map, I picked out 17 sites, I figured, no problem. Needless to say, I was drastically wrong. This is challenging work to do. Fortunately, I had and continue to have an absolutely wonderful team of colleagues and collaborators in my own team, and that's the only way that this work can really occur. We have a whole range of challenges about this work. One of them is just obtaining trust from individuals that we work with in the field. The person you see on the right hand side is Paul DeLong-Minutu. He's one of the best communicators that I've really ever dealt with. When I arrived I didn't speak a word of French, and I still seemed to understand what it was he was saying. Paul worked for years on the Cameroonian national radio and television, and he spoke about health issues. He was a health correspondent. So we figured we'd hire this person, and when we got there he could be a great communicator. When we would get to these rural villages, though, what we found out is that no one had television, so they wouldn't recognize his face. But, when he began to speak they would actually recognize his voice from the radio. And this was somebody who had incredible potential to spread aspects of our message, whether it be with regards to wildlife conservation or health prevention.Often we run into obstacles. This is us coming back from one of these very rural sites, with specimens from 200 individuals that we needed to get back to the lab within 48 hours. I like to show this shot: this is Ubald Tamoufe, who's the lead investigator in our Cameroon site. Ubald laughs at me when I show this photo because of course you can't see his face. But the reason I like to show the shot is because you can see that he's about to solve this problem. Which he did, which he did. Just a few quick before and after shots. This was our laboratory before. This is what it looks like now. Early on, in order to ship our specimens, we had to have dry ice. To get dry ice we had to go to the breweries, beg, borrow, steal, to get these folks to give it to us. Now we have our own liquid nitrogen. I like to call our laboratory the coldest place in Central Africa -- it might be. And here's a shot of me, this is the before shot of me. No comment.So what happened? So, during the 10 years that we've been doing this work, we actually surprised ourselves. We've made a number of discoveries. >> TITLE: Results after 10 years: Identified new viruses, including retroviruses; collected 26,000 human and 18,000 animal blood samples; documented viral jumps from animals to humans. >> NATHAN WOLFE: And what we've found is that, if you look in the right place, you can actually monitor the flow of these viruses into human populations. That gave us a tremendous amount of hope. What we've found is a whole range of new viruses in these individuals, including new viruses in the same group as HIV -- so, brand new retroviruses. And let's face it, any new retrovirus in the human population, it's something we should be aware of, it's something we should be following, it's not something that we should be surprised by.And needless to say, in the past these viruses entering into these rural communities might very well have gone extinct. That's no longer the case. Logging roads provide access to urban areas. And, critically, what happens in Central Africa doesn't stay in Central Africa. So, once we discovered that it was really possible that we could actually do this monitoring, we decided to move this from research, to really attempt to phase up to a global monitoring effort. And through generous support and partnership scientifically with Google.org and the Skoll Foundation, we were able to start the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative and begin work in four different sites in Africa and Asia. Needless to say, different populations from different parts of the world have different sorts of contact. So it's not just hunters in Central Africa. It's also working in live animal markets -- these wet markets -- which is exactly the place where SARS emerged in Asia. But really, this is just the beginning from our perspective.Our objective right now, in addition to deploying to these sites and getting everything moving, is to identify new partners because we feel like this effort needs to be extended to probably 20 or more sites throughout the world -- to viral hotspots -- because really the idea here is to cast an incredibly wide net, so that we can catch these things. Ideally, before they make it to blood banks, sexual networks, airplanes. And that's really our objective. There was a time not very long ago when the discovery of unknown organisms was something that held incredible awe for us. It had potential to really change the way that we saw ourselves, and thought about ourselves. Many people, I think, on our planet right now, despair, and they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: please don't despair. If an intelligent extra-terrestrial was taxed with writing the encyclopedia of life on our planet, 27 out of 30 of these volumes would be devoted to bacteria and virus, with just a few of the volumes left for plants, fungus, and animals -- humans being a footnote -- interesting footnote but a footnote nonetheless. This is honestly the most exciting period ever for the study of unknown life forms on our planet. The dominant things that exist here we know almost nothing about. And yet, finally, we have the tools which will allow us to actually explore that world and understand them. Thank you very much. >> TITLE: New TED Talks each week at www.TED.com