1.Disease control
2.Caring for victims of Meningitis
3. Rehabilitation 

Disease Control

• Increase awareness 

• Vaccine

• Research

Increase awareness 

We can increase awareness of the disease “Meningitis “ in Jordan by holding lectures and distributing free pamphlets about Meningitis.

Below are two songs composed as part of our awareness plan for meningitis.

	Song one
	Song two

 Posters

 Vaccine

  Vaccination is the only public health tool available to prevent the vast majority of HIB disease. There is no vaccine yet available against all strains of Meningitis. Research continues in many countries abroad to develop vaccines against the most common strains and to find better ways of controlling the disease.

To date, over 30 countries have included HIB vaccines in their expanded programs of immunization.

The JMF hopes that the Jordanian Ministry of Health will make this vaccine available as part of the Childhood Immunization Program.

In October 1998, the JMF received a grant, generously provided by the Embassy of Japan in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, to purchase HIB vaccines. Through this grass-root grant, a first step was taken to establish a pilot project in East Amman with plans for expansion into a second rural area. The pilot project would protect approximately 10,000 children from the HIB disease.
 

 Report on the Pilot Project

 
Rana Al-Najashi
The first child who had a free HIB vaccine in the Pilot Project in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

  We support research and studies which help in controlling this disease. Below is a report on the pilot project in Jordan and a study on the HIB vaccination for children below five. 

COST EFFECTIVENESS STUDY OF HIB
VACCINATION FOR CHILDREN
BELOW FIVE
 IN JORDAN

Caring for victims of meningitis

• Financial aid for the  low income households to take care of disabled Meningitis victims.

• Increase access to aid tools  and medication for disabled Meningitis victims.

• Ensure specialized services to disabled Meningitis victims, both through institutions and through the community based on training.

• Opportunities in education and training for lucky survivors of  Meningitis.

Rehabilitation

The embassy of Japan Grant 2004 for rehabilitation Center:-

Japanese Project

This Project has helped disabled children from meningitis to be promising cases after being regarded hopeless cases.
40-60 children attend this program, that includes physical and occupational therapy.

JMF rehabilitates disabled children under the supervision of specialized physiotherapist, and with the aid of specialized equipment (donation from the Japanese Embassy). Thus improving mobility for children, where some cases have been able to sit or sat after being thought of as hopeless.

Rehabilitation program is still continuous, pursuant to 4 days a week.This program is run by a pediatrician , a physical therapist, a special needs assistant and a social worker.

JMF also runs monthly field trips to family homes, where by a physiotherapist, and the social worker, respectively, attend to physical therapy, and attend to health, sanitation, and general social and financial well being of the children and their surroundings.

As a result, JMF has proven through reports of physical therapy that meningitis disabled may improve in health with therapy and hope is never lost.
 

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