Slum and Rural Health Initiative
We fight social injustice by creating access to quality healthcare information and services in the world's most underserved region in Africa
Members of our research academy have published in 200 peer-reviewed articles and presented in over 35 conferences across 5 countries.
What is Monkeypox? Monkeypox is an uncommon disease usually caused by the monkeypox virus. This virus belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus in the Poxviridae family. Where did Monkeypox come from? Monkeypox was first discovered in the year 1958 in Denmark. There were two outbreaks of a pox-like disease in the colonies of monkeys kept for …
News by Makanjuola Timilehin The Executive officer and founder, Slum and Rural Health Initiative, Dr Isaac Olufadewa was chosen as one of the exemplary young leaders for the 3rd edition of the Royal African award of the Royal African Young Leadership Forum (RAYLF). The Royal African Award was established by His Imperial Majesty (H.I.M), Ọọ̀ni …
Prevalence and Incidence of Cancer of the cervix Global statistics on cancer shows that there were 570,000 fresh cases of cancer of the cervix with 311,000 mortalities in 2018. Of these new cases, 500,000 (88%) cases were from countries of low and middle income (CLMI) [1]. This ranks cancer of the cervix in terms of …
Every year, people hardly make health resolutions and the few health resolutions made usually include losing/gaining weight, joining a gym and changing bad lifestyle practices. One important health resolution every woman should be making is testing and screening exams for all women-related diseases. It’s cervical cancer awareness month and an important test every woman aged …
PRIORITIZING YOUR HEALTH GOALS; CERVICAL SCREENING IS A MUST Read More »
Access to primary health care amongst (African) countries over the years have been or is widely accepted as germane to revamping health outcomes. The world Healty Organizatio (WHO) in 2008 opined this to mean that when there is access or reach to essenyial health care, ranging from acceptable social methods, services and or technology; health …
THE STATE OF ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AMONGST ITU & KEREYU PASTORALISTS IN ETHIOPIA Read More »
To commemorate this year’s BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH as always in October, our dynamic team & volunteers Slum and Rural Health Initiative Network – SRHIN in Oyo State, visited the Global School of Science, Iyana Church Ibadan Oyo State Nigeria. BREAST CANCER has been a top-of-the-moment* issue with women all over the world. Some have …
SRHIN VISITS secondary school for Breast Cancer Awareness in Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria. Read More »
International partnership seeks to foster better post-COVID-19 world for youth by investing in 18 mental health innovations in low-and middle-income countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health challenges worldwide, yet only about 0.1% of global development assistance for health goes towards youth mental health—that’s just one dollar in every 1,000. In addition, 81% of …
UK AND CANADA SUPPORT YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH PROJECTS WORLDWIDE Read More »
Written by: BLESSING ABAI SUNDAY. Team: Delta. Using drugs or alcohol in amounts or by route of administration which are harmful to the individual is referred to as Substance abuse. These substances could be our everyday Paracetamol for pain relief, Alcohol, Opioids etc. This abuse may or may not lead to addiction, however, tolerance can …
Climate change has become a major challenge worldwide. Human activities have impacted both directly and indirectly on health the effects of climate change in Nigeria are more devastating because of their low coping capability. Evidence shows that climate change impacts in Nigeria arise from climate change related causes, such as a change in temperature, rainfall, …
Discovering that you may have mental health issues can be very challenging. It took me a while to understand my mental health issues. When I was in high school, I knew I felt anxiety but I was always in denial. I always searched up questions about mental health but I always justified my anxiety by …
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