The Home Visitis Projects 2019 for Behavior Change at Madaba, Aghwar and Deir Alla Provinces
The Jordan Breast Cancer Program Executes an intensified and comprehensive project that aims to enhance women health, specifically raising awareness around breast health and breast cancer, tailored to specifically serve the needs of women according to her medical and social history. The Home visits project targeted women between the age of 25 and 65 years of age, through counseling sessions that ended with referring women to services of early detection and to the mobile unit of the program, receiving free mammography, and suitable medical support for women who get diagnosed at King Hussein Cancer Center.
The Home visits project aimed to raise awareness of breast cancer and early detection in underprivileged areas, through providing services and medical support at King Hussein Cancer Center. Moreover, the program worked to sustain its services through a behavior change approach, focusing on changing the behaviors of women to adopt regular early detection practices, by wiping off any obstacle that might hinder women from receiving early detection services.
Madaba and Aghwar region were targeted in the Home visits project 2019 due to the lack of quality services of early detection. In spite of the geographical challenges of Agwhar region, the mobile unit was set At “Princes Iman Hospital, Ministry of Health” in Deir Alla, and an MOU was signed with Johud association, Kafrain, Aghwar to implement the home visits project and refer women to the services provided at the Mobile Unit of King Hussein Cancer Center. Another Mobile Unit was set at Madaba Health Center, and an MOU was signed with Young Women Christian Association YWCA, Implementing the second home visits project in Madaba. Two community health trainings were provided for both teams of Johud and YWCA, enabling community health workers provide convincing BC and early detection messages through effective counseling skills in home visits setting.
The project implemented more than 3000 home visits in 2019, reaching out to 9000 women in targeted areas, resulting in screening 1500 women in both mobile units of the Jordan Breast Cancer Program.