The CAA director, Prof Daniel Pope, opened Symposium with the revelation that 32 Ugandan women currently die every day from cooking for their family through exposure to household air pollution from reliance on solid fuels for cooking.
Prof Pope presented evidence from the CAA Community Household Air Pollution Prevention Programme (CHAP-PP) that is showing how community health workers have a key role in transitioning populations to clean household energy including LPG and electricity.
This primary prevention strategy for HAP disease burden has the potential for scale across sub-Saharan Africa alongside efforts to make clean cooking fuels accessible to communities. CLEAN-Air(Africa) has launched CHAP-PP in Kenya, Rwanda, Cameroon and Uganda with ministries of health supporting efforts for national rollout.
In Uganda a state-of-the-art digital platform (TeachBox) is being used to train Village Health Teams with implementation carried out by CAA partners, Makerere Lung Institute. TeachBox is a cost effective way for rapid scale of training for CHWs and sensitisation of communities including for hard to reach contexts.
We look forward to sharing findings from the pilot early next year as CHAP-PP is implemented across East Africa and Cameroon.
Read more about the TeachBox system here: https://the625.com/teachbox-625/
