Management of Public Health Campaigns: WHO's HIV Initiatives

This report delves into the management of public health campaigns, with a specific focus on HIV awareness initiatives spearheaded by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and UNESCO. It highlights WHO's 'HIV prevention' campaign, which involves raising awareness through free testing, informative posters, and the distribution of red ribbons. The report also covers the strategies employed by these organizations to educate the public on HIV prevention methods, including the use of condoms, avoiding shared needles, and regular testing. Furthermore, it addresses recommendations for individuals living with HIV, such as adhering to medical treatment, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and seeking emotional and financial support. The analysis draws upon various sources, including books, journals, and online resources, to provide a comprehensive overview of the management and impact of these crucial public health campaigns. Desklib is a platform where students can find solved assignments and resources for their studies.

MANAGEMENT AND
PUBLIC HEALTH

'WHO MANAGES CAMPAIGN AND HOW''?
WHO conduct various campaigns on awareness on HIV Aids and how to protect people
form this. All of these campaigns are managed by management World Health organisation.
Along with them various other organisations are also working in the same orders such as
UNICEF and UNESCO (Bloom and et. al, 2015). For example WHO has organised a campaign
for raising awareness among people about HIV. The name of the campaign was “HIV prevention
”. Across the world thousand of the people are unaware about HIV aids and its symptoms. In
this campaign the organisation has raised awareness by providing free testing to people. In this
testing worker of the organisation have tested plenty of people to check whether they rare HIV
positive or not. Second method they have used for raising awareness among people is that they
use posters indicating the how aids affect health and what are the safety measures that should be
taken by people. These posters are hanged by workers of organisation everywhere in the city so
that everybody can see and understand about HIV aids. Red ribbons are also used by the WHO
by handing out these ribbons to people . These red ribbons works as an indicator and people
understand them. Free testing raises awareness among people about primary care that must be
taken.
The campaigns organised by WHO provides various safeguards to people so that they can
get protected against HIV aids (Gulland, 2016). Organisation in these campaigns describes the
way for remain protected against HIV such as to prevent HIV is to make use of condoms during
intercourse. They also tell people to never use utilized needles and injected equipments like
syringes, swabs and spoons. For protection against HIV the organisation in campaigns suggest
people to get tested on monthly basis, do not consume drugs, talk to medical care provider etc.
In the campaigns organised by UNICEF and UNESCO (NHS. 2017) they tell people
about methods to not to get infected such as making use of new condom while having sex so
that threat for both women and men to get infected can be avoided. Second method is making use
of drug Truvada which can lower down the risk of sexually transmitted infection (Johns and et.
al, 2014). Another method the workers of the organisation suggest to people is telling partners
about HIV if any on of them is suffering. In HIV awareness campaigns by them also give
recommendation to people who are suffering form HIV. Such as taking HIV aids treatment and
taking proper medical course so that people get cured . The workers of the organisation also

recommend to infected people that they should take proper health precautions and routine check
ups to get cure from this disease (O'Riordan, ed., 2014).
The WHO in campaigns also give suggestions to people who are suffering from HIV to
live better life by advising them not to stop medication course, talk with loved ones, learn to love
yourself, take benefits from group and individual therapy, practice healthy living, ask for
financial support etc. In this way WHO, UNICEF and UNESCO organises and manages
campaigns.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bloom, N. and et.al, 2015. The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from
public hospitals. The Review of Economic Studies. 82(2). pp.457-489.
Gulland, A., 2016. Zika virus is a global public health emergency, declares WHO.
Johns, D. J. and et.al, 2014. Diet or exercise interventions vs combined behavioral weight
management programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis of direct
comparisons. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 114(10). pp.1557-1568.
O'Riordan, T. ed., 2014. Environmental science for environmental management. Routledge.
Online
NHS. 2017. Accessed through<http://www.nhs.uk/pages/home.aspx>[Accessed on 3rd Aug
2017]