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Rc: 73907 - Issn: 2448-0959 Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento - RC: 73907 - ISSN: 2448-0959 https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities Raising awareness about Covid-19 in rural communities in the province of Huambo-Angola ORIGINAL ARTICLE MALENGUE, Abílio Santos [1] MALENGUE, Abílio Santos. Raising awareness about Covid-19 in rural communities in the province of Huambo-Angola. Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento. Year 06, Ed. 01, Vol. 07, pp. 05-16. January 2021. ISSN: 2448-0959, Access link: https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities SUMMARY Named by the World Health Organization, COVID-19 was first discovered and identified in humans at the end of 2019 in a Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei Province. It is from a disease caused by the new Coronavirus SARS-COV-2, which has been affecting the whole world, causing severe respiratory infections such as pneumonia in its victims. It affects all social classes, however, is much more dangerous and deadly for poor communities in developing countries, caused by a lack of comprehensive information, biosecurity conditions, and still deficient health systems. The present study was carried out during the period from March to July 2020, and had as coverage the municipalities of Caála comuna do Cuima in the cachindongo sector consisting of 17 villages and in Londuimbali, commune of Alto-Hama, bonga sector consisting of 9 villages, with the objective of sensitizing the populations about the dangers and prevention to be had with the Pandemic of Covid-19. To comply with the previous objective, the methodology of Habermas' communicative action theory on learning in times of COVID-19 and the method of social distancing was adapted, crucial to prevent the spread of contagious diseases such as COVID-19, guided by who. As a result, a total of 2,275 individuals among men, adolescent women and children in the communities of Bonga and Cachindongo were sensitized, and it was noted that the closer to urban centers, the greater the female participation. Keywords: COVID-19, rural communities, awareness raising. INTRODUCTION 1 / 11 Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento - RC: 73907 - ISSN: 2448-0959 https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities The world has been going through enormous difficulties, resulting from the worst economic and financial situation, aggravated by the current pandemic of the CORONAVIRUS COVID-19, which was first reported in wuhan city, Hubei province, People's Republic of China, in December 2020. Given the problems resulting from it, the authorities at the global level have made efforts to be able to control, but it has spread practically throughout all countries, and there have been more than 70000000 000 infected individuals and 1500 0000 deaths (WHO, 2020). The first two cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in Angola on March 21, 2020 (DW, 2020) were announced with sadness, and despite the hard work done by local authorities, which even deserved praise from the WHO, the pandemic does not stop growing in numerical terms allied to its losses. Thus, the country rescues in the period already referenced more than 16000 infected and more than three hundred met the death unfortunately (DGS, 2020). Well, Angola, as in many other countries on the African continent, suffers from the adversities of an undeveloped country, at intense levels. Even though some African countries, such as South Africa, have overcome their difficulties through an arduous process, it is known that this is far from happening in Angola, since it is characterized by an eminent technical-scientific unpreparedness, high illiteracy rate, poor income distribution, corruption (there has been a great willingness on the part of the current executive to combat this great evil , which has been the country's win,however, has not been easy), low life expectancy and extremely deficient quality of life indexes (Vergara, 2008). In the country of Angola, the human development index is equivalent to 0.574, which places the same in 149th place, in a ranking of 189 countries and territories considered in the report, in order to classify them in the average human development category, although the average HDI value corresponds to 0.634 (UN , 2019). The Republic of Angola has an extension of approximately 1,246,700 km2 that is located in the Southern Hemisphere, in the western part of Southern Africa, on the east side of the Greenwich meridian, between the 4th 22 ? and 18th 02 ? parallels and the meridians 4º 05 ? and 11º 41 ?. The term Angola derives from "Ngola", a name attributed to a dynasty of the Ambundo peoples, fixed in the Middle Kwanza. And its territory borders the Republic of the Congo and a part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ex- Zaire) to the north; with the Republic of Zambia and another part of the Democratic Republic of congo to the east; and the Republic of Namibia to the south; while to the West, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, its coast has 1,650 km and its land borders amount to a total of 4,837 km (ZAU, 2002). Currently, Angola has a population of 29250009 inhabitants, of which 40 % of it resides in rural areas (INE, 2020). The rural environment in Angola can be characterized by indicators that denote a precarious way of life, revealed by a simple lifestyle, on the fringes of technologies and the literate world; with the use of traditional and obsolete resources and tools; productive activity linked to subsistence agriculture and pastoral production of charcoal, dispersed, isolated villages, with limitations of basic living conditions, difficulties in accessing drinking water and basic sanitation Silva (2011), scarcity of social equipment; illiteracy rates in the order of 46% for men and 66% for women UNICEF (2011) cited by (SILVA, 2011). This is a worse situation that in addition to making the life of rural communities more difficult submits them also, for conditions unworthy of existence. However, they cling to the aspects that seem most advantageous and important to them, in this case the cultural tradition through which they rescue the 2 / 11 Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento - RC: 73907 - ISSN: 2448-0959 https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities sense of identity and dignity, reported to the values and interests of the community in which they find understanding and solidarity (MALENGUE et al., 2019). Thus, and in the face of this challenging and multidimensional paradigm (sanitary, social, economic and political), this research aimed to raise the awareness of the rural communities of Bonga and Cachindongo about the Covid-19 pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was carried out during the period between March and July 2020, and had as coverage area the municipalities of Caála commune of Cuima in the sector of cachindongo, consisting of 17 villages, and in Londuimbali, commune of Alto-Hama, bonga sector built by 9 villages. Both are municipalities that produce and sell the most charcoal in huambo province, which makes them very vulnerable as to the prevention against the pandemic of covid 19, due to the number of truckers and buyers coming from the capital of the country Luanda, where the largest number of people infected is located. Another aspect that makes them vulnerable is the fact that they are very far away from the communal places, which makes the difficulties in terms of communication even greater. Therefore, they do not benefit from the various recommendations that have been passed by the Ministry of Health on the level of danger of the pandemic and the rapid way it presents in relation to propagation. Figure 1. Location of the study zone. The study was carried out in the municipalities of Caála and Londuimbali, illustrated in red. 3 / 11 Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento - RC: 73907 - ISSN: 2448-0959 https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities Source: Adapted from http://fas.co.ao/provincias/fas-huambo/ SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE STUDY AREA Figure 2. Percentage distribution of the resident population by municipality in huambo province 4 / 11 Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento - RC: 73907 - ISSN: 2448-0959 https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities Source: Adapted (INE, 2014). According to the INE (2014), and as can be seen in the previous figure, the municipalities of Caála and Londuimbale constitute the third and fourth most populous, surpassed by the headquarters municipalities (Huambo) and the Bailundo. Among the various activities developed by huambo's citizens, agricultural production stands out, based on the production of corn (Zea mays L.), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and other vegetables that serve as a food base (SARDINHA, 2008). The results of agricultural activity have harmonised growth and benefited the poor in both local and urban rural communities, providing them with more food and raw materials at low prices and reducing poverty through growth in labour productivity and employment opportunities in rural areas as a result of work (LOTE, 2015). The extent of the area explored by peasants, in a phased way, varies from 500 m2 to 6 there, where the main workforce comprises the family workforce. In these communities, people are also small coal trees totally dependent on the forest. And even after the slaughter of coal, they continue to explore the land irrationally with different types of very rudimentary agricultural crops (MALENGUE, 2019). Coal production has stimulated the generation of jobs in local communities, lacking efficient technologies so that it is produced in a sustainable way (MANICO et al., 2020). METHODOLOGY 5 / 11 Revista Científica Multidisciplinar Núcleo do Conhecimento - RC: 73907 - ISSN: 2448-0959 https://www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br/health/rural-communities The work was developed in small groups consisting of men, women, young people and children, in the different villages that make up the sensitized communities, using an adaptation of habermas' communicative action methodology on learning in times of Covid-19.
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