Final Paper

Introduction

Developing countries with Sudan being the country of focus face serious health challenges that can be easily avoided through high personal hygiene maintenance. However, this in most cases is not the case due to high levels of poverty that people in these regions suffer from to the point that they cannot afford basic commodities like adequate and clean water as well as soap to maintain necessary hygiene. As a result, they end up suffering from contamination-related diseases leading to physical health deterioration as well as high rate of death. This is especially among children who engage in massive dirty games and end up touching food and water contaminating it instantly.

Statement

Different health supporting international agencies like the UNICEF have tried to mitigate contaminated diseases in the best way possible. For instance, the UNICEF Sudan has strived to make clean water for drinking and washing hands is available in schools and also to local communities. The agency have also tried to make soap accessible to children in school to make sure that after visiting toilets, they clean their hands with soap and water. A lot of enlightenment has also been made on children in Sudan on importance of cleaning their hands with soap and water before meals and also after visiting the toilet even at home and also encouraged sharing the information with their friends and relatives. However, due to economic challenges, parents and children in Sudan have not managed to embrace the idea of hand washing with soap proving that even the government needs to intervene. Washing hands with clean water and soap can go a long way in saving a lot of Sudan people’s lives but a lot need to be done something that still makes the situation desperate.

Body

a. Importance of hand washing with soap

As many would say, whatever is consumed through the mouth determines the health status of a person. In Sudan approximately 50% of people are poor and they cannot afford basic commodities and this makes them vulnerable to feed on contaminated water and food for basic survival. Others are illiterate and do not understand the importance of washing hands with soap and how it can help to kill germs before touching food and water. Under this main point, it is important to;

· Train the people about personal hygiene focusing on washing hands with water and soap

· Engaging many Sudan people to understand their plight in regards to hand washing

· Learning from already exposed bodies like UNICEF Sudan what can be done to make hand washing with soap a trend and eventually a habit in the lives of Sudanese people

b. Available programs and options of upgrading personal and community hygiene

· The UNICEF Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program

· Effective waste disposal

· Disease outbreak awareness and prevention measures

c. Challenges and limitations

· Participants shying away from the program

· Inadequate finances to support the program

· Unreliable information

Conclusion

Hand washing with soap as a basic need that all people in Sudan needs to understand and practice. However, this effective strategy of fighting diseases and promoting health work, other measures also need to be put in place. For instance, people need to construct latrines in order to dispose human waste effective, get vaccinated when there is a breakout, boil drinking water and also avoid eating uncooked food.

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