All day on our TL we shared thoughts on #genderequality, challenging stereotypes; discovering women who have beaten the status quo with strength in womanhood.
Lots of progress has been made, but there is still so much to do in the quest for #BalanceForBetterNaija. Let’s begin!
Our host @SylviaKK is an experienced Family Health practitioner & advocate for basic healthcare awareness as an empowerment tool. Founder, @AskAwayHealth, she mentors young career women to develop their greatest potentials.
Dear tweeps, thanks so much for being part of our #IWD2019 campaign yesterday #BalanceForBetterNaija .
We will continue to do what we can to promote gender equality in Nigeria as we see this as 🔑to development in health, careers, security, the economy& many other challenges..1/
that all of us face.
Let’s start with small initiatives like this: building confidence in young girls- ‘Raise your hand’ in class. Just having the confidence of self expression in young girls is a key driver to establishing future women leaders.
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She rubbed under her right breast and under her armpit.
As she circled the breast again, she felt something. She paused, letting the water rinse off the soap.
Welcome to Day2 of our #BeatingBreastCancer series.
Today - What’s a #Mammogram? #thread
Simply, it’s an X-Ray of the breasts used to detect changes in the breast that may indicate cancer.
It’s used as a screening method in some countries... 1/#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞
- that means - before a woman develops ANY signs of cancer, the X-Ray can find breast changes suggesting #BreastCancer.
In the UK, it’s given every 3 years after a woman is 50y till she is 70y. #BreastCancerAwarnessMonth 💞 #BeatingBreastCancer
Nigeria has no formal program.
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There are some other women for whom a #Mammogram is useful for screening outside the age limits and regardless of age, all women are encouraged to continue performing regular self breast examination (BSE) 3/. #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞#BeatingBreastCancer