The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade have conducted a public awareness campaign in schools and other public places in Ubungo, Dar es Salaam, as preventive measures against infectious diseases.
Ubungo District supported the implemention of the programme in the crucial public places by issuing permits and released staff from education and health department to ensure a wider coverage of the campaign.
The WHO website entails that the such diseases can be grouped in three categories namely: diseases which cause high levels of mortality; diseases which place on populations heavy burdens of disability; and diseases which owing to the rapid and unexpected nature of their spread can have serious global repercussions.
“Many of the key determinants of health and the causes of infectious diseases lie outside the direct control of the health sector,” the WHO says on its website.