To see people take control of their health and live better and more productive lives as a result of physical and mental well-being
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To reach out into the Communities and educate people, both young and old, on the health issues faced in everyday life and how to live healthy lives
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Eating a healthy diet is not about strict limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your mood.
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Your body depends on water to survive. Every cell, tissue, and organ in your body needs water to work properly. For example, your body uses water to maintain its temperature, remove waste, and lubricate your joints. Water is needed for overall good health.
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The 21st Century Youth 2.0: Competing effectively in the global space One week classes on: Graphic design/motion graphics Microsoft Excel Copywriting Creative writing/content creation
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Theme: Achieving the elimination of viral hepatitis within evolving health systems. Eagles-Haven Empowerment Initiative carried out a Viral hepatitis outreach on Thursday 28th July, 2022 in Ekwulobia Anambra state.
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"We cannot always build the future for our youth but we can build our youth for the future."
~ Franklin Roosevelt
SOKOTO State Sickle Cell Disorder Campaign THEME: Shine The Light On Sickle Cell This awareness campaign went on from 8th to 11th November, 2021.
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World Suicide Prevention Day. 10th September, 2021
Theme: Creating Hope Through Action.
Every 40 seconds someone takes their own life according to the World Health Organization. That’s about 800,000 people worldwide every year — although some estimates put that number closer to 1 million.
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Protect breastfeeding: A shared responsibility
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1st to 7th August to encourage breast-feeding and improve the health of babies around the world.
Theme: Hepatitis can't wait.
World Hepatitis Day is observed each year on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes severe liver disease and hepatocellular cancer.
Theme: Commit To Quit
It's never too late to begin the journey to quitting tobacco use.
Theme: Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.
This year’s International Women’s Day is like no other. As countries and communities start to slowly recover from a devastating pandemic, we have the chance to finally end the exclusion and marginalisation of women and girls.
LEPROSY (HANSEN'S DISEASE)
Leprosy is an infection caused by bacteria known as Mycobacterium leprae. These bacteria grow very slowly and it may take up to 20 years to develop signs of the infection.
The theme for the 2020 observance is “Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Resilience and Impact”.
World AIDS Day on 1 December brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic.
Theme: Antimicrobials: handle with care
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.
Theme:
Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety
Slogan:
Safe health workers, Safe patients
Call for action:
Speak up for health worker safety!
World Hepatitis Day is commemorated each year on 28 July to enhance awareness of viral hepatitis.
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver that can cause a range of health problems and can be fatal.
There are five main strains of the hepatitis virus, referred to as types A, B, C, D and E.
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World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, established by the United Nations, is celebrated on June 19th of each year.
Objectives of this day's campaign:
-Raising awareness about the SCD and its challenges.
-Increasing public knowledge and an understanding of SCD.
-Supporting sickle cell patients, their families and caregivers.
#TobaccosExposed
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year around the world. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
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SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
As 2020 is the international year of the Nurse and the Midwife, we remind them this world hand hygiene day that clean care is in their hands. Clean health care is among the most urgent challenges identified by the United Nations to be tackled in the next 10 years by the global community, in our race to meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) deadline.
Theme: Zero Malaria Begins With Me
Malaria is an acute febrile (fever-causing) illness. The first symptoms include – fever, headache, joint pains and chills – may be mild and difficult to recognize as malaria. If not treated within 24 hours, P.falciparum malaria can progress to severe illness, often leading to death.
Theme: Vaccines Work For All
World Immunization Week – celebrated in the last week of April (24 to 30 April) – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions.
Theme: Support Nurses and Midwives
7 April, 2020 is the day to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and remind world leaders of the critical role they play in keeping the world healthy. Nurses and other health workers are at the forefront of COVID-19 response - providing high quality, respectful treatment and care, leading community dialogue to address fears and questions and, in some instances, collecting data for clinical studies.
Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs. The bacteria that cause TB are spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Most infected people don't have symptoms. Treatment isn't always required for those without symptoms. Patients with active symptoms will require a long course of treatment involving multiple antibiotics.
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Theme: I am and I will
Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. There are many types of cancer. It's not just one disease. It can start anywhere in the body, like the lungs, the breast, the colon, or even in the blood. Cancers are alike in some ways, but they are different in the ways they grow and spread.
Theme: communities make the difference
Communities are a unique force behind the success of the HIV response
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that targets the immune system and weakens people's defence systems against infections and some types of cancer.
Antibiotics are substances that kill or inhibit the growth and replication of bacteria.
Antibiotic resistance is a situation where a bacterium which was previously susceptible to an antibiotic is no longer affected by it.
Diabetes Mellitus is group of diseases that result in too much sugar in the blood (high blood glucose). There are two types- Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes.
Type 1: A chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin
Type 2: A chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar (glucose)
Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness. It is the state of someone who is "functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment".
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Viral hepatitis B and C affect 325 million people worldwide causing 1.4 million deaths a year. It is the second major killer infectious disease after tuberculosis, and 9 times more people are infected with hepatitis than HIV. Hepatitis is preventable, treatable, and in the case of hepatitis C, curable. However, over 80% of people living with hepatitis are lacking prevention, testing and treatment services.
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World Sickle Cell Day is a United Nation’s recognised day to raise awareness of sickle cell at a national and international level. On 22nd December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that recognises sickle cell disease as a public health problem and “one of the world’s foremost genetic diseases.”
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Tobacco and lung health
Every year, on 31 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) and global partners celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The annual campaign is an opportunity to raise awareness on the harmful and deadly effects of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure, and to discourage the use of tobacco in any form.
Hypertension - or elevated blood pressure - is a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure and blindness. It is one of the leading causes of premature death worldwide.
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Clean care for all – it's in your hands
The World Health Organisation calls on everyone to be inspired by the global movement to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), i.e. achieving better health and well-being for all people at all ages, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Zero malaria starts with me”
After more than a decade of steady advances in fighting malaria, progress has levelled off. According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, no significant gains were made in reducing malaria cases in the period 2015 to 2017. The estimated number of malaria deaths in 2017, at 435 000, remained virtually unchanged over the previous year.
Protected together, #VaccinesWork
World Immunization Week, 24–30 April 2019, is an opportunity to recall how immunization helps keep people of the Western Pacific Region safe and healthy and to raise awareness of the need to continue being protected together.
Universal health coverage is WHO’s number one goal. Key to achieving it is ensuring that everyone can obtain the care they need, when they need it, right in the heart of the community. Progress is being made in countries in all regions of the world. But millions of people still have no access at all to health care.
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In 2008, The United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared 2 April as World Autism Awareness Day.
For many people on the autism spectrum, access to affordable assistive technologies is a prerequisite to being able to exercise their basic human rights and participate fully in the life of their communities, and thereby contribute to the realization of the SDGs.
Commemorated on 24th March. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease.
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Down syndrome is a naturally occurring chromosomal arrangement that has always been a part of the human condition, exists in all regions across the globe and commonly results in variable effects on learning styles, physical characteristics or health.
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Achieving a gender-equal world requires social innovations that work for both women and men and leave no one behind. From urban planning that focuses on community safety to e-learning platforms that take classrooms to women and girls, affordable and quality childcare centres, and technology shaped by women, innovation can take the race for gender equality to its finishing line by 2030.
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