SMS BEHAVIOR REINFORCEMENT CAMPAIGN
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epal Scouts initiated 15 days Public Awareness Campaign (SMS), from 5th to 19th September 2020, to aware the Community to fight against COVID-19. The campaign was conducted in collaboration with Nepal Scouts, Ministry of Health and Population, and HISSAN with the support of UNICEF. 100 volunteers including Nepal Scouts and public health students were mobilized in the campaign on a daily basis. Volunteers visited the most crowded places in the valley by making it 13 different clusters. The main objective of the campaign was to disseminate the information and message regarding preventive measures
and transmission of COVID – 19, called the SMS campaign. The main agenda of the SMS (Social distancing, Use of Mask, and Use of soap and water/sanitization) campaign was to reinforce 3 major steps to prevent oneself from the disease and to promote the maskwearing behavior in a proper way among the individuals. Flex and banners were used to spread the knowledge regarding COVID – 19, its sign and symptom, preventive measures, proper stepwise method of using a mask, and many other informational points regarding the disease.
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