{"id":7038,"date":"2024-05-23T14:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmtraining.org\/self-care-strategies-adapted-to-strengthen-reproductive-health-in-senegal\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:43:33","slug":"self-care-strategies-adapted-to-strengthen-reproductive-health-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtraining.org\/fr\/self-care-strategies-adapted-to-strengthen-reproductive-health-in-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-care Strategies Adapted to Strengthen Reproductive Health in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Senegal, the health system is sometimes deficient due to poverty, economic inequality, socio-economic crises and political instability. Self-care strategies help to overcome the weaknesses of the health system in terms of human resources and accelerate efforts for universal access to care.<\/p>\n

Self-care<\/a> is defined by the World Health Organization as “the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote their own health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health worker.\u201d Self-care is a safe and promising strategy to ensure that populations are taking preventative measures, and are cared for early, efficiently and appropriately, using the right tools. For example, helping diabetics to inject themselves in the case of type 1 diabetes is a self-care practice.<\/p>\n

Knowledge SUCCESS\u2019s Learning Circles is a knowledge exchange activity that brings together groups of global health professionals to reflect on main success factors and challenges related to pressing topics, such as self-care.<\/span><\/p>\n

In January 2024, Knowledge SUCCESS co-organized with PATH a three-day Learning Circles series in Thi\u00e8s with family planning and reproductive health (FP\/RH) professionals based in Senegal to explore what works and what doesn\u2019t work in self-care interventions for advancing FP\/RH. Twenty participants from Senegal and various sectors of the medical, community, youth, local partners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), pioneer groups, civil society organizations (CSOs), community health workers attended the workshop. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Participants used the knowledge management techniques “Appreciative Inquiry” and “1-2-4 All” to identify the following key success factors for the practice of self-care for FP\/RH in Senegal:<\/span><\/p>\n

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