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COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE UNIT ÁGUA SANTA

Countries

Brazil
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Promoters: The main leader is Mother Tânia , who has a place where many times the meetings occur, and she organizes the courses of formation of health agents. Alongside her there are diverse women ( communitarian leaders) that work in the community where they live as health agents. Providers: As in this case it is information that is given by the communitarian agents it almost does not have providers or supply material. The little material of information and awareness which is used, beyond condoms is supplied by the NGO CRIOLA. Other people and organisations involved: NGo CRIOLA (Institution that fights for the rights of black women) is the main partner of the health nucleus, it provides material and small financial aid. It also has the support of the ABIA Association that provides the qualification courses of health agents. Users: The women of the community who are instructed, acquire knowledge and mobilized in the health question. Networks: constitution of an integrated health nucleus to other communitarian health nuclei of other quarters.
Background/ Context: 
The nucleus is formed by a net of women who developsr activities of education, awareness and orientation in the area of woman health. They mobilize diverse communities (cabeça de porco, vinte e sete, slum 18,matriz slum, caixa d´água among others) of the Água Santa neighborhood, for the auto-examination and the accomplishment of diagnostic, independently of the public and/or private health service networks, spreading new practical habits for the collective health, mainly in the areas of sexually transmissible diseases, precocious pregnancy and breast cancer.
Case Description: 

 

The support groupworks trough  lectures and meetings of the members of the nucleus and the community, and  visits of the communitarian agents to the houses of the inhabitants of the Água Santa Community. They give clarifications, awareness and self aid in - the diagnostic of illnesses and in health habits.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

The initiative effectively started of a group of people in the ÀguaSanta community, that got tired to wait for some action of the government in the area of the health, and the communities in the neighborhood had to organize themselves to obtain improvement of health to all. The health is a sustainability element that is present in the daily life of all.