Living while being alive: education and learning in the Treatment Action Campaign

Guideline implementation for breast healthcare in low- and middle-income countries

“…A systematic documentation of these projects and lessons learned can be used as best practice models with appropriate adaptation to local situations to expand current efforts to downstage breast cancers in the LMCs. Strong educational and outreach programs to reach both the general population and targeted audiences are important,58, 59 and health educators and the medical community need to appreciate the importance of tailoring educational outreach and communication so that it is culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate 60, 61. Although it is simple to acknowledge the importance of cultural sensitivity, in practice, it is much more complicated, because not only are there obvious barriers that may be more difficult to overcome than anticipated, but there are also hidden social and cultural barriers.…”

Dental hygienists as adult learners and educators to improve access to care

“…Dental hygienists who challenged the status quo experienced personal risks and financial risks, which represented the vulnerability of engaging in social action. Vulnerability in other social movements was experienced when groups who possessed power, used it to over groups who struggled to gain freedom from that power (27, 28).…”

“…Shared experiences, especially unpleasant ones, were useful for planning future action in other struggles to overcome social problems (D.M. Chanovec, University of Alberta, Edmonton, unpublished doctoral dissertation, 25, 27, 28).…”

Heeding the Push from Below

“…Increasing treatment literacy about HIV/AIDS and ART has been a central goal, and members are encouraged to use this knowledge to demand appropriate care and medicines in public clinics and from the state more broadly. Also, it has been successful in working with members to link their personal troubles to the wider public challenges of building a democratic South Africa, incorporating human rights, democratic accountability and a just political economy (Endresen and von Kotze, 2005).…”