Executive Summary (Benchmark Assessment)

Jigger Eradication Program

Regardless of the finest exertions to examine and extend our acquaintance on sicknesses distressing societies throughout the globe, some illnesses, mainly those that distress communities with poor resources, are still common (Bisen & Raghuvanshi, 2013, p.23). Many individuals are at danger of contagion in more than 70 states, majorly in evolving states. The jigger louse causes incapacity in deprived societies of unindustrialized states. In rampant regions, the incidence varies from 15 to 40% (Van Emden & Service, 2004, p.52).

Determining factors of wellbeing include healthy human actions as well as ecological elements that construct situations which affect the epidemiological trend of these illnesses and situations (Bisen & Raghuvanshi, 2013, p.29). These factors also increase vulnerability to ecological aspects leading to more propagation places for the vectors and elevation the danger of jigger diffusion. If health personnel are to deal efficiently with ill community health, they ought to comprehend the community’s practices, illiteracy, deficiency and arrogance (Bisen & Raghuvanshi, 2013, p.33). Further, they need to comprehend their deeds and the adjacent setting in which persons reside.

Purpose of the Program

Jiggers’ invasion is additionally spread hence frightening and more serious, demanding instantaneous consideration to counter its spread. Maximum victims have feet, fingers and scalp as the greatest affected parts of the body (Cook, Zumla & Manson, 2009, p.43). Therefore, this project will pursue to guarantee that actions are carried out to regulate jigger invasion and associated wounds resulting from its infestation, hence strengthening the community cognizance and increasing the implementation of actions that help to regulate the danger (Cook, Zumla & Manson, 2009, p.47). Existing approaches available to avert jigger invasion are inadequate and thus this program will encompass undertakings such as anti-jigger movements, medical sites and training on management of jigger invasion (Cook, Zumla & Manson, 2009, p.49).

The activities will require capitals from sponsors that include administrations, non-governmental organizations, individual organizations and churches. The program will additionally highlight the importance of putting greater energies in ensuring that the interventions instigated achieve the desired outcomes (Cook, Zumla & Manson, 2009, p.63). The intention of this work is to ensure that action is taken to thwart jigger invasion and associated wounds due to its influx. Consequently, it will fortify the community cognizance and improve the implementation of manners that assist regulating the danger (Cook, Zumla & Manson, 2009, p.65).

Target Population

The project will target kids, adolescence, and aged individuals from affected families inside the society. These individuals will benefit from the fitness training provided on appropriate cleanliness, management focusing on washing the feet, jiggers elimination, care of the wound, treatment administration and also fumigation of households with deprived cleanliness (Spinage, 2012, p.14). Jigger flea affects many disadvantaged inhabitants residing in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and South America. For example, above 2.6 million individuals in Kenya are infected by jiggers as recorded by Ahadi Kenya Trust, a prominent non-governmental organization against jigger invasion (Spinage, 2012, p.17).

Benefits of the Program

There is a gap in awareness among the communal members since no other group has conducted jigger eradication with swiftness in the aforesaid regions. The project upon executed is projected to decrease cases of illnesses connected with jigger invasion and infirmities like being unable to stride hence reducing the quantity of kids dropping out of institutions (Spinage, 2012, p.24). It is also anticipated that the project will reduce the frequency of HIV spread amid the affected individuals. Furthermore, the project will improve equivalence since it will lower stigmatization to the affected persons like kids in learning institutions. Incapacity and poverty are also estimated to drop with the enactment of the plan (Spinage, 2012, p.27).

Budget Justification

The project will explore economic sustainable projections that will ensure self-sufficiency and sustainability in future by bringing together the educated individuals to participate in certain undertakings the program pursues to inaugurate (Spinage, 2012, p.34). Through constant usage of the mass media, the project will intensify cognizance concerning the difficulty of the many individuals wracked with scarcity and diseased with jiggers (Van Emden & Service, 2004, p.47). The table below summarizes budgetary allocation of the program.

Reviewing of the financial statement registers will be conducted yearly by both the inside and outside assessors employed on ad hoc basis (Van Emden & Service, 2004, p.49). Assessing the development and product of interventions is crucial in any illness condition. This is obligatory not only to measure the efficacy of the interventions, but also to establish replicable operational models and navigate the entire development (Van Emden & Service, 2004, p.52).

A continuous checking and assessment system will be instigated as part of project undertakings (Wilks, Farrington & Rubenstein, 2003, p.68). Steady analyses and assessment will be carried out in monthly intervals. Examination and evaluation will help revise the progress as well as pinpoint problems in design and implementation (Wilks, Farrington & Rubenstein, 2003, p.78). The basis upon which the program will be assessed includes the reduction in shame formerly connected with jigger invasion, as well as the increase in the number of people seeking medical care. Furthermore, reduction in school dropout by children will imply the success of the program (Spinage, 2012, p.34).

References

Bisen, P., & Raghuvanshi, R. (2013). Emerging epidemics. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell.

Cook, G., Zumla, A., & Manson, P. (2009). Manson’s tropical diseases. [Edinburgh]: Saunders.

Spinage, C. (2012). African ecology. Berlin: Springer.

Van Emden, H., & Service, M. (2004). Pest and vector control. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wilks, D., Farrington, M., & Rubenstein, D. (2003). The infectious diseases manual. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science.