Memetoon Screams ( memes and cartoon competition and exhibition on AMR )

Name of the activity: Score Presents : Memetoon Screams ( memes and cartoon competition and exhibition on AMR }

Country/NMO: Bangladesh (BMSS)

Program: Communicable Diseases

Contact information: [email protected]

Type of the activity: Campaign. Combination of education and advocacy. Campaigns create awareness in society about a certain topic (education aspect) and try to funnel this awareness into pressure on the decision makers to adapt policies accordingly (advocacy aspect).

General description:

we devided AMR week in 3 steps . a) the competition and exhibition b) the clinincal session in LCs c) the press conference . It was a very innovative idea and first time happening in Bangladesh . We opened the event a month back and started doing promotions through social media and posters , even paid boosters . Then many non medic showed interest and requested to participate . For them we also posted explanatory posts and photos in our event page and for starters we posted status on memes and cartoons . We got huge response from people 43 submissions . We carefully selected the judges , one a vascular surgeon and a researcher , another one Ex president of BMSS and lastly a very famous international cartoonist , who showed enthusiasm and volunteer to be a judge . We worked on sponsors. We had our drawbacks such as man power and money ( sponsors ) and time bind . For these drawbacks we couldn’t start the next mass plan we had but we succeed in completing the first and second step .

Focus area:

Reduce incidence of Antimicrobial Resistance

Problem statement:

AMR is a ignored alarming issue .It is growing fastly enough to be called an epidemic . In 3rd world countries the situation is much more tight . Most people use antibiotics indiscriminately and develop AMR , which becomes an obstacle in post recovery ward . 80% of this patients dont have enough money to buy drug of higher efficacy or foreign brands . So they suffer from septic shock & death . Mass people should know how they should take their antimicrobial drugs to not fall into AMR trap .

Target groups:

General population, Medical students, Healthcare Students, Other Students, Doctors, Other health professionals, Children, Youth, Women, Migrants, Refugees, People with disabilities, Elderly people, Homeless people, LGBTQIA+ community, Incarcerated individuals

Beneficiaries:

General population, Medical students, Healthcare Students, Other Students, Doctors, Other health professionals, Children, Youth, Women, Migrants, Refugees, People with disabilities, Elderly people, Homeless people, LGBTQIA+ community, Incarcerated individuals

Objectives and indicators of success:

objective:

1. Generating an interesting innovative idea and realizing it :

Success- Cartoons and memes have always been a fun medium which makes people understand even the toughest thing very easily .

2. Involve both medical and non medical students in the program

Success- We opened it for all . So those non medic and non health professionals who took interest in our event researched on AMR on their own . That is how we reached the mass and involve them in awareness program .

3. Create awareness through social media and also mainstream newspaper .

Success- by posting memes and cartoons on social media and sharing with the help of members we can achieve mass awareness and we asked mainstream media to cover us .

4. Circulate the memes and cartoons daily

Success- we have enough memes and cartoons to post them regularly and make people aware on regular basis .

5. Keeping people interested and eager for season two :

We tried to make event as interesting and hyped as possible . There were gifts for the winners .

6 . Local Committees observed AMR week was observed by making posters and clinical sessions .

7 . Plan on having a press conference on AMR soon

Methodology:

1. We opened a facebook event firstly .

2. We made it open for all .

3. We did mass promotions (banners , posters , flyers) and even went for paid promotions on social media

4. We set up a deadline and selected the memes and cartoons to exhibit

5 . We contacted the sponsors and judges .

6 Later we used social media to circulate more and more of our event.

7. There was an exhibition and a prize giving ceremony for the winners

8. In many different local committees AMR week was observed by making posters and clinical sessions .

Plans for evaluation:

1. Firstly we evaluated through social media responses of people and participants .

2. We took video interview of participants and judges of both medical and non medical background on AMR and this event

3. We interviewed non medical people who came to exhibition

4. The memes from competition will be published soon , after that we will do a general assessment of people .

5. In LC s we may arrange for quiz competition on how much they understood things after exhibition and sessions .

6. The page SCORE BMSS and mail is open for any complements and criticism and questions . After event the page gained 400 new likes and more regular visitors .