Challenging global #epilepsy by reducing the diagnostic + treatment gaps in Ghana🇬🇭, Kenya🇰🇪 and Tanzania🇹🇿. Based @UniofOxford | Funded by @NIHRresearch.
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Meet the EPInA team, read our publications and subscribe to our newsletter by visiting epina.web.ox.ac.uk/
November is Epilepsy Awareness month. If you are in Nairobi this Saturday 12th of November 2022, come and join the NECC for a fun run at Karura Forest. Register for the event here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1goF…
EPInA researchers are working with the Oxford Martin School in Oxford for a better future for people with epilepsy by creating technological innovations supported by deep ethnographic study. Watch out for a video coming later ! #oxmartinschool #epilepsyinafrica #NIHRglobal
ALT Prof. Sloan Mahone. Department of History, University of Oxford
Why train healthcare workers on the WHO mhGAP guidelines to manage epilepsy? Listen to Mary Bitta @Difu_Simo in Kilifi, Kenya youtu.be/-MdVP1q1W6M @NIHRglobal @IlaeWeb #epilepsyafrica @NDCNOxford @KEMRI_Wellcome
Congratulations to you for your continued relentless effort to support people with epilepsy in Kenya.
It takes people like Judy Baariu and Mary Bitta, winners of the Science Engagement prize at this year's Falling Walls festival falling-walls.com/people/jud… to keep fighting to end stigma for people with epilepsy #difu_simo #epilepsyafrica #epilepsypathway #nihrglobal #epilepsyKE
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Join ILAE as we fight stigma and work to replace harmful myths with an understanding that epilepsy is a treatable brain disorder. Learn about the @WHO #IGAP intiative & how to support at ilae.org/igap. #epilepsyawareness #advocate4epilepsy #epilepsyeducation
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What motivates you to raise #EpilepsyAwareness?
All schools, everywhere, should have at least one person who can recognise and manage students with epilepsy.
Amazing work by our team in Kilifi. Congratulations for the excellent public engagement #epilepsypathway #epilepsyinafrica
Our final community engagement during our #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth series was at Ganze in Kilifi County.
We highly appreciate our team, @EpilepsyPathway, @KEMRI_Wellcome, @DOHkilifi for the excellent work and support. #KilifiEpilepsyAwareness
This week is Infantile Spasm Awareness Week. Know the signs, and talk to you doctor. This is a rare condition, but better to be safe. Learn more at infantilespams.org #ISAW2021
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Stima leads to diminished self confidence, withdrawal, self imposed isolation, financial losses and tendences to internalize shame and also negative perceptions of the self and epilepsy
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#KilifiEpilepsyAwareness #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth
In many parts of the world, people with epilepsy and their families suffer from stigma and discrimination.
@MaryBitta talks about the consequences of the stigma of epilepsy and key #antistigma messages. @KEMRI_Wellcome
#KilifiEpilepsyAwareness #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth
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Not all seizures are due to epilepsy...@KEMRI_WELLCOME
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#KilifiEpilepsyAwareness #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth
"Epilepsy is a very important public health problem. In Kenya, 20 in every 1,000 people experience epilepsy.”~ @symonmkariuki
Comprehensive interventions are required to address this burden. @KEMRI_Wellcome @EpilepsyPathway
#KilifiEpilepsyAwareness #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth
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Do you have a medical question about epilepsy such as the causes or management? @KEMRI_Wellcome through @Difu_Simo and @EpilepsyPathway would like to connect you with doctors and experts in epilepsy.
Call or text +254112643067
#KilifiEpilepsyAwareness #EpilepsyAwarenessMonth
Congrats to our new 11 Epilepsy Champions in Ghana trained by Prof Patrick Adjei and Prof. Albert Akpalu #UniversityofGhana . We look forward to the new trainees teaching health care workers about epilepsy. #epilepsyinafrica #epilepsy #epilepsychampion
Wishing our colleagues in South Africa to stay safe against this new COVID variant. This will likely disrupt EPInA's travel plans across our field sites. #epilepsyinafrica nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
There is a PhD post to work on the EPInA project, hosted by KEMRI Kilifi. Deadline 12th Nov 21. See advert for details jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/phd-… #phdpositions #kemri #epilepsy
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Conversations happening now! A lot of factors impacting #mentalhealth have changed over time.
✅ Socioeconomic determinants e.g poverty & economic hardships
✅ Climate change
✅ Causes of mental illness have changed. e.g. long ago, substance use wasn't prevalent.
#WMHDKILIFI
ALT World Mental Health Day
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Earlier Today we had an opportunity to share #TheWinninngEpilepsyStory on KBC Channel 1 TV
We are not stoping at anything because we are committed to keep spreading awareness on all platforms.
Check out #AbledDifferent_Show this weekend on your number one Channel.
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Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay , we reflect on the collective action needed towards #SuicidePrevention.
Taking time to reach out to someone in your community; a family member, friend, colleague or even a stranger, could change the course of their life. #WSPD, #bethelight
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