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ADVOCACY
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COMMUNITY HEALTH
Advocacy
Introduction
Health covers many aspects that involve people well-being and health safety. No one can
confirm to the fact that all is taken care of under the discussed subject considering different
health needs competing and inadequate resources availability needed to over health care as
recommended (SARR, (January 01, 2013).). Based on this particular ground, the situation acts as
the impetus leading to the establishment of advocacy so as to improve health in our communities.
Advocacy refers to the act of an individual or a group taking a firm stand concerning a specific
issue and afterward initiate an action strategy which focuses on influencing public and private
policy choices. Hence, deducing from the definition, the advocacy plan in this particular
presentation will focus on the HIV/AID population in the community and push for a proper
health care for this group as well (SARR, (January 01, 2013).). The approach aspect of advocacy
HIV/AIDs Issue
We all have the general idea of how a community can get formed, in most cases it gets
based on different circumstances. These talked about circumstances can include, area type, a
health issue, and leadership among many other aspects. In this particular case, the target
population is the HIV infected group with an advocacy to push for proper medication and
affordable drug to also get availed in the community. HIV/AIDs are among the world’s top
terminal disease and the rate of infection in society has shown a steady rising graph over the
years (Loue, 2013). For instance, communities in Africa seem to fall, victims, when it comes to
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HIV awareness, prevention, and treatment. Considering that most communities constitute of
individuals who operate with a budget of less than a dollar in one day, no electricity, health
facilities are far, they cannot afford the drugs, and have no clue on how to prevent themselves
Through utilizing various approaches to advocacy, we will get to find the primary issues
and the plea of affected individuals in the community so as to know exactly what we should
advocate for, in order to improve the health care in the community. A bottom-up approach will
help in interacting with the affected population and find out the needs and goals to be achieved in
the long run (Loue, 2013). Also, the top-down approach will be necessary to coincide our
motives with research conducted from outside the community by professionals. There may be
several issues present in the community but still fall under the same category as our mission, it
will be prudent to utilize organizing and mobilizing approach so as to separate this issues and
merge those within the mission setting from those, not within our capacity.
Advocacy strategies are very important as it stimulates the action to be taken. This aspect
will require the power of social organization to be exercised via public function formulated and
gears towards demonstrating the voice of the people (Lam, 2015). These strategies include;
Media: which will provide public awareness and harness more task force associated with the
Legislative bodies: like for the case of drug prices, this particular body can help in coming up
with laws that can establish standard drug price and affordable to the infected individuals in the
Courts: it will help in fighting for the rights of the people, hence where they have been denied
appropriate care by the law then the courts will help restore proper health care.
regulatory organization such as food and drug administration, will help to establish rules over the
HIV/AIDs care system to cater for all people as well as providing adequate support in terms of
Through all, the main agenda of the advocacy initiation is to address the challenges
people who are in HIV/AIDs community-based face and try and come up with a solution through
analyzing their current situation. The advocacy group pushes for affordable drugs for HIV
patients as the primary agenda. Also, among the concerns is enough awareness and formal
education about HIV/AIDs which through the legislative body and media we will achieve proper
information released to people (Lam, 2015). Development of medical clinics either permanent or
mobile will be able to over drugs, treatment and also counseling which is mandatory to the
community living with the disease. Demonstrations and other public conventions will provide
the power of the people’s voice which will stir the push for changes agenda and help the group
attain its goal as well as ensuring proper health care of the community (Lam, 2015).
Conclusion
It is important to critically analyze the mode of health care in our society and community
around us. Some particular groups go through a lot due to inadequate resources and lack of
proper awareness when it comes to health issues. For instance, like people living with HIV/AIDs
in a community, some are parents and they have families, in order to provide for them one needs
proper medical care and sufficient resources. Expensive drugs, lack of health centers, lack of
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information, and lack of proper treatment will not help the situation but rather increase the
casualties. Advocacy either individually or within a group will help bold the issues and push for
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