Since March 2020, the Anveshi Health Group (AHG) has been making posters, advisories and videos related to COVID-19. They began with introductory advisory and poster on COVID-19 addressed to the working people who needed to step out of their houses during the lockdown. Subsequently, other posters were developed as and when we got requests for more or saw the need to address specific issues. The advisories/posters mostly address the people living in small houses where space and resources are scarce. They have been translated into multiple languages in different formats for wider dissemination.
6. Community awareness material developed for MARI
Anveshi Health Group was asked to prepare COVID-19 related material by Modern Architects for Rural India (MARI), an organisation working in fifteen slums of Hyderabad to spread awareness in the community while working closely with the health service system on COVID-19. This material included a booklet, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for volunteers, COVID-19 affected households; posters and audio material tailored to the needs of these slums. Thousands of booklets have been distributed in both Telugu and Urdu.
5. Care for COVID-19 (short posters)
With a large number of COVID-19 positive cases in the country including a large number of people with mild symptoms, we felt the need to come out with these set of posters titled Care for COVID-19. It covers a range of issues from early testing, to precautions in home isolation, food and other things. This is also keeping in mind the requests that we had got for posters with lighter text. So here are the 11 posters, in no particular order.
The different language posters in PDF format can be found here:
- English PDF
- Telugu PDF
- Hindi PDF (to be uploaded soon)
- Tamil (to be uploaded soon)
The different language posters in jpg format can be found here
4. Some FAQs on Community Quarantine
After we shared our community quarantine posters, we got some more queries regarding stay in a quarantine centre. We realized there were many other questions regarding quarantine that needed to be addressed so we came out with this 4-page poster. This poster is in the format of questions and answers.
The different language posters in PDF format can be found here:
- English PDF
- Hindi PDF (to be uploaded soon)
- Tamil (to be uploaded soon)
- Telugu (to be uploaded soon)
The different language posters in jpg format can be found here
3. Self Segregation in small houses (reverse quarantine)
COVID-19 has shown to be harsher for the elderly and people with diseases like diabetes, cancer, or diseases of the heart, lungs etc. Hence there is a special need for this population at risk to be more cautious. One of the ways that is recommended is reverse quarantine where the vulnerable population stay indoors and safe. But given our situation, how does one manage to keep distance in one room houses. Our posters is an effort to answer some of these questions. We have termed this as self segregation, rather than reverse quarantine.
The different languages PDF version can be found here:
Will be uploaded in a few days
- Marathi
- Urdu
2. Community Quarantine
As the number of COVID-19 cases are on a rise, the only way to deal with it is to test, trace and isolate. An important aspect of tracing is that people who have come in contact with COVID-19 positive patients need to be quarantined. With the increase in numbers of COVID-19 cases and their contacts, there are not enough quarantine centres available. In this scenario, the government is also asking people to self quarantine themselves in their homes. However, as a majority of our population, cannot afford to have a separate room within their home, there is a need for community quarantine centres in the neighborhood. The community can also contribute to the functioning of the centre with the help of government and other non government organisations. This will help the contacts or suspected people be closer to home in a more relaxed environment. The Anveshi Health Group in consultation with PHM and MFC has brought out these posters for setting up community quarantine centres.
The PDF version of posters for different languages can be found here:
The Anveshi Health Group has been working alongside the Indian chapter of People’s Health Movement—the Jan Swasthya Abhiyaan—to develop advisories related to COVID-19. The group consists of various experts in fields of medicine, public health and activism.
Even as there were lots of advisories from government and elsewhere, the group felt that those advisories are addressed to the middle class who can afford to have water, space and minimal comfort at their disposal. However, a large part of the working population needed a different kind of advisory keeping the resource constraints in mind.
1. Advisories for people who cannot afford to stay at home
The first set of advisories was developed in March after the lockdown had started. This was to address those workers who could not afford to stay at home and had to go out to work like the vegetable vendors, sanitary workers, etc. For easy dissemination, the group tried out various mediums like mobile sites, video and posters which can be shared across various social media platforms. The advisories and posters were also translated into various languages.
The PDF version of the Posters can be found here:
