This report presents an overview of the Leadership and GBV Advocacy Training program held from September 29 to October 6, 2024. The training aimed to equip participants with essential leadership skills and knowledge to address Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through community-based initiatives.
YOHAN AFRICA is thrilled to announce the outcome of our partnership with the Nigerian Universities Nursing Students’ Association (NUNSA) in the Zero Malaria Mission mini-research project! We congratulate the top three teams selected for their exceptional research work, offering innovative solutions to combat malaria in Nigeria and Africa. The team from Osun State University, Osogbo,…
Reported By: Obadeyi Khalifat Boluwatife It’s been exactly a week since after the 5th YOHAN Africa Summit and we are still reliving the moments from the summit. This blog post is a way to bring you up-to-date with all that went down during the summit. The first part of this recap has been shared here.…
Reported By: Obadeyi Khalifat Boluwatife It’s been exactly a week since after the 5th YOHAN Africa Summit and we are still reliving the moments from the summit. This blog post is a way to bring you up-to-date with all that went down during the summit. The 5th YOHAN Africa summit took place virtually on Google…
Breast cancer is generally perceived by the populace as a death sentence, but contrary to this popular opinion, positive outcomes of treatment have been achieved by presentation in the early stages of the disease. Research has produced facts that this can be achieved by adopting a policy to include health education in secondary school curricula…
Written by Achi Kingsley (Source: GAVI) Outline Malaria’s Impact on Africa Malaria is a tropical disease that is widely distributed in the African region. It is caused by five different species of malaria parasite which are transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquitoes. Plasmodium vivax and, especially, Plasmodium falciparum are the most prevalent and poses the…
Author: Dr Chidera Josiah Introduction Africa no doubt holds a large reserve of natural resources such as cobalt, diamond and crude oil and has relied over the years on these resources for its economic growth but has continued to fall short in all indices of development including quality healthcare as measured by the sub-goals of…
Executive Director of YOHAN Africa launches a project to tackle hypertension and diabetes among the elderly in Nigeria’s rural communities. Author: Nzubechukwu Ogamba Overview of SYN-X Project Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, has been defined by the American Heart Association as a group of five risk factors that can lead to heart disease, diabetes,…
