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World Health Organization

Gender Mobile Initiative: Empowering communities and integrating mental health support to end Female Genital Mutilation in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Nigeria

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueFemale Genital Mutilation is estimated to affect close to 20 million women and girls in Nigeria. Ekiti state in the southwest of the country has one of the highest rates of survivors, with one in two women and girls aged 15-49 reportedly being affected. Female Genital Mutilation is a harmful practice and an internationally recognized violation of multiple human rights.&nbsp;...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Kids Haven & In2Position NPC: Empowering young people and communities to address mental health challenges in township communities in Johannesburg, South Africa.

South Africa

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueIn townships and informal settings in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of Johannesburg in South Africa, family and community violence, labour or sexual exploitation, and socioeconomic disadvantages pose major physical and mental health risks for children and young people. Depression, anxiety and behavioural disorders are among the pressing mental health needs of youn...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

OKB Hope Foundation: Prevention and primary care at the doorstep of underserved, rural communities in Ghana

Ghana

11 Dec 2024

The NCD IssueMore than 13.3 million people living in rural areas in Ghana reportedly lack direct access to primary care. Limited healthcare facilities, long distances, and missing transportation options complicate the timely diagnosis and treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, or cardiovascular diseases. As a result, community awareness...

11 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Finemind: Integrating mental health services into primary care in Uganda

Uganda

11 Dec 2024

The Mental Health IssueIn the Agago District of Northern Uganda, a region affected by insurgency, conflict and socio-economic hardship, many people are experiencing psychological distress, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and other mental health challenges. Women and girls are particularly at risk of suffering violence, gender-based discrimination or stigma and are often lacking crucial access to ps...

11 Dec 2024

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International League of Dermatological Societies

A Remarkable Milestone Amidst Adversity: First Patient Recruited to Lebanon's National Atopic Dermatitis Registry

Lebanon

03 Dec 2024

The Global Atopic Dermatitis Atlas (GADA) and their collaborators would like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to our colleagues in Lebanon at the Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine – LAU Lebanese American University, LAU Medical Center-Rizk Hospital and the Lebanese Dermatology Society, for recruiting the first patient to their national atopic dermatitis registry (LebRAD) du...

03 Dec 2024

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World Health Organization

Timely Diagnosis and Early Referral of Childhood Cancer Cases Training in three cities in Libya

Libya

30 Nov 2024

As part of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC), with funding from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and support from the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, WHO Libya country office has conducted training of trainers for primary healthcare (PHC) workers in Misrata, Benghazi and Tripoli.&nbsp;These workshops equipped 60 general physicians from 37 PHC centers with critical s...

30 Nov 2024

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World Health Organization

Get the Conversation to Cancer: #Dukutober Challenge Accepted

Zambia

27 Nov 2024

While breast cancer has a high media profile in many parts of the world, the concept of breast health is still taboo in numerous communities. This was the reason that the Zambian Cancer Society (ZCS), created the “Duku Challenge”. Across Zambia, men and women were asked to wear a head scarf, called a Duku, as a show of solidarity with breast cancer survivors. This has now become an annual Octo...

27 Nov 2024

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NCD Alliance

PODCAST: Oral health takes centre stage

Austria

13 Nov 2024

In this episode we’re talking about oral health and noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs, with Dr Greg Chadwick, President of FDI World Dental Federation, and Dr Dympna Kavanagh, Chief Dental Officer for the Republic of Ireland. What they both stress in today’s chat is how the adoption in 2021 of a World Health Assembly resolution flipped the way that most people thought of oral health—primaril...

13 Nov 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation, SolidarMed

Zimbabwean men unite to advocate for diabetes care

Zimbabwe

30 Oct 2024

'We realised it was necessary to form an association. Why? So we could go and motivate our own, which are other men, who live in rural areas,' says Luckson Zanamwe, a member of a diabetes self-support group at Chikombedzi Hospital, Zimbabwe. &nbsp; Luckson's group was formed as part of the&nbsp;'Improving access and quality of diabetes care in rural Zimbabwe'&nbsp;project, funded by WDF....

30 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation, Helen Keller International

Cambodia’s sprouts of change: healthier futures through safer child nutrition in schools

28 Oct 2024

Imagine travelling across vast fields of rice, when you suddenly find yourself in a schoolyard.&nbsp;A Buddhist pagoda with gardens and ornate shrines stands out, a bit farther from the school in front of you. Built on land donated by the pagoda, the school serves as a learning hub for 450 children in the community. &nbsp; From morning to evening, the schoolyard is animated with the sights a...

28 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation

Heroes of remote Nepal: Women leading the way to healthier communities

Nepal

25 Oct 2024

Women in Nepal have become promising agents of change, improving control of type 2 diabetes and social trust. Now, a scale-up to rural areas is expanding the role of female community health volunteers in strengthening a vulnerable health system.&nbsp; Although the pilot ended in 2022, it has been five years since WDF’s last visit to Nepal; pandemic restrictions and difficult road access made...

25 Oct 2024

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World Diabetes Foundation

Breaking barriers: Liberia’s journey from modest diabetes clinic to national NCD response

Liberia

24 Oct 2024

A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing. This Liberian proverb seems to embody the progress in addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). With WDF funding, Liberia’s first national NCD programme completed this year has been showing how small, consistent actions&nbsp;can&nbsp;drive results in a country in recovery.&nbsp; Home to 5.4 million people, Liberia has endur...

24 Oct 2024

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