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🌟Growth through Empowerment🌟
We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of our intensive 4-week Life Skills Training program for second-year students at Addis Ababa University (AAU)!
In a powerful collaboration with the YeBen Endowment Fund, SCOPH-AA designed this comprehensive training to foster holistic personal development and equip students with essential skills for navigating their academic and personal lives effectively.
The program focused on four critical pillars crucial for student well-being and success:
❤️ Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH): Promoting informed decision-making and responsible health practices.
🧠 Mental Health Awareness: Destigmatizing conversations and providing coping mechanisms for stress and academic pressure.
🚫 Substance Abuse Prevention: Educating on risks and fostering resilience against harmful habits.
✨ Self-Care Strategies: Highlighting the importance of personal well-being, balance, and establishing healthy routines.
This initiative wasn't just a series of lectures—it was an insightful, interactive, and transformative experience aimed at providing these deserving students with the much-needed practical and emotional toolkit to thrive in today's dynamic world. We believe that investing in these foundational life skills is paramount to creating a healthier, more capable future generation.
Orange Hugs🧡🧡🧡
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of our intensive 4-week Life Skills Training program for second-year students at Addis Ababa University (AAU)!
In a powerful collaboration with the YeBen Endowment Fund, SCOPH-AA designed this comprehensive training to foster holistic personal development and equip students with essential skills for navigating their academic and personal lives effectively.
The program focused on four critical pillars crucial for student well-being and success:
❤️ Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH): Promoting informed decision-making and responsible health practices.
🧠 Mental Health Awareness: Destigmatizing conversations and providing coping mechanisms for stress and academic pressure.
🚫 Substance Abuse Prevention: Educating on risks and fostering resilience against harmful habits.
✨ Self-Care Strategies: Highlighting the importance of personal well-being, balance, and establishing healthy routines.
This initiative wasn't just a series of lectures—it was an insightful, interactive, and transformative experience aimed at providing these deserving students with the much-needed practical and emotional toolkit to thrive in today's dynamic world. We believe that investing in these foundational life skills is paramount to creating a healthier, more capable future generation.
Orange Hugs🧡🧡🧡
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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🦠 MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE (MVD)
✨Know the Facts • Stop the Spread
🔍What is it?
Marburg Virus Disease is a severe viral hemorrhagic fever from the same family as Ebola. It's a high-consequence infectious disease with serious public health implications.
📃 Key Facts:
•Family: Filoviridae (like Ebola)
•Fatality Rate: ☠️ 24-88% in past outbreaks
•Origin: Egyptian fruit bats
•Transmission: Direct contact with infected body fluids
•Status:⚠️ NO approved vaccine or specific treatment
🩺Clinical Picture:
· Sudden high fever & severe headache
· Muscle pain & malaise
· GI symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting, pain)
· Hemorrhagic manifestations
· Multi-organ failure in severe cases
⚠️ Critical Reminder:
Treatment is supportive- focusing on fluid resuscitation, electrolyte balance, and symptom management.
Strict infection prevention control is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
Source: Ethiopia MOH MVD Guideline 2025
✨Know the Facts • Stop the Spread
🔍What is it?
Marburg Virus Disease is a severe viral hemorrhagic fever from the same family as Ebola. It's a high-consequence infectious disease with serious public health implications.
📃 Key Facts:
•Family: Filoviridae (like Ebola)
•Fatality Rate: ☠️ 24-88% in past outbreaks
•Origin: Egyptian fruit bats
•Transmission: Direct contact with infected body fluids
•Status:⚠️ NO approved vaccine or specific treatment
🩺Clinical Picture:
· Sudden high fever & severe headache
· Muscle pain & malaise
· GI symptoms (diarrhea, vomiting, pain)
· Hemorrhagic manifestations
· Multi-organ failure in severe cases
⚠️ Critical Reminder:
Treatment is supportive- focusing on fluid resuscitation, electrolyte balance, and symptom management.
Strict infection prevention control is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
Source: Ethiopia MOH MVD Guideline 2025
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Happy noon SCOREnthusiasts!!
✋On the month of November, we have hosted a research exchange student from Milano, Italy🇮🇹🤌 - Turchio Alessandra Lia Margherita, 📚a 4th year medical student at Università degli studi di Genova.
🧐She was introduced and oriented about our campus and country in the first days of her arrival. 🌍Then slowly got acquainted to our culture, language and way of life🇪🇹🌼.
✨She joined surgery classes and bed sides the first few days before she got to work on the research exchange she came here for🔜.
🤗🤗We would like to say welcome, Alex, we hope you had wonderful first few days here!!🙌
😎Until next time,
SCORE | Dark blue hugs💙💙💙
EMSA- AA | More than a student!
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✋On the month of November, we have hosted a research exchange student from Milano, Italy🇮🇹🤌 - Turchio Alessandra Lia Margherita, 📚a 4th year medical student at Università degli studi di Genova.
🧐She was introduced and oriented about our campus and country in the first days of her arrival. 🌍Then slowly got acquainted to our culture, language and way of life🇪🇹🌼.
✨She joined surgery classes and bed sides the first few days before she got to work on the research exchange she came here for🔜.
🤗🤗We would like to say welcome, Alex, we hope you had wonderful first few days here!!🙌
😎Until next time,
SCORE | Dark blue hugs💙💙💙
EMSA- AA | More than a student!
Telegram | Instagram | Linkedin
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💊 Antimicrobial Resistance
📃Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is when germs change and medicines like antibiotics stop working. This makes infections like pneumonia, TB, and sepsis harder and sometimes impossible to treat.
🌍Globally, AMR was directly linked to 1.27 million deaths in 2019, and 1 in 6 infections is already resistant to available antibiotics in 2025.
⚠️This is a serious threat to our health because AMR puts many of the gains of modern medicine at risk. It makes infections harder to treat and makes other medical procedures and treatments – such as surgery, caesarean sections and cancer chemotherapy much riskier.
What can you do?
✅ Only take antibiotics prescribed by a doctor.
✅Never share or use leftover antibiotics.
✅Always finish the full course, even if you feel better.
✅Prevent infections by washing hands regularly.
✨let's protect our medicines for the future!
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
📃Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is when germs change and medicines like antibiotics stop working. This makes infections like pneumonia, TB, and sepsis harder and sometimes impossible to treat.
🌍Globally, AMR was directly linked to 1.27 million deaths in 2019, and 1 in 6 infections is already resistant to available antibiotics in 2025.
⚠️This is a serious threat to our health because AMR puts many of the gains of modern medicine at risk. It makes infections harder to treat and makes other medical procedures and treatments – such as surgery, caesarean sections and cancer chemotherapy much riskier.
What can you do?
✅ Only take antibiotics prescribed by a doctor.
✅Never share or use leftover antibiotics.
✅Always finish the full course, even if you feel better.
✅Prevent infections by washing hands regularly.
✨let's protect our medicines for the future!
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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❓ Did you know that if a smoker doesn't quit, there's a 50% chance it will kill them?
Or that smoking causes 16,800 deaths annually in Ethiopia alone?
📊 Let's talk numbers!
Our new infographic breaks down the harsh realities of tobacco use worldwide.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
Or that smoking causes 16,800 deaths annually in Ethiopia alone?
📊 Let's talk numbers!
Our new infographic breaks down the harsh realities of tobacco use worldwide.
It's time to clear the air! 🚭
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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🌎 Today is World AIDS Day 🎗️
Since 1988, communities have stood together on World AIDS Day to show strength and solidarity against HIV stigma and to remember lives lost.
🔊 This year's theme is "Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response", calling for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and human-rights-centred approaches to end AIDS by 2030.
We honor the resilience of those living with the virus, and we pay tribute to the lives lost.
🎗️SCOPH-AA is preparing a special series of posts to mark this important day in our public health calendar to help break the stigma and spread awareness.
✨The fight is not over, and awareness is our first powerful tool.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
Since 1988, communities have stood together on World AIDS Day to show strength and solidarity against HIV stigma and to remember lives lost.
🔊 This year's theme is "Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response", calling for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and human-rights-centred approaches to end AIDS by 2030.
We honor the resilience of those living with the virus, and we pay tribute to the lives lost.
🎗️SCOPH-AA is preparing a special series of posts to mark this important day in our public health calendar to help break the stigma and spread awareness.
✨The fight is not over, and awareness is our first powerful tool.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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🌎 World Aids Day
For world Aids Day, We remember those we’ve lost, honor those living with HIV, and hold onto the hope that keeps us moving forward.
📊 The Global Reality is stark:
· 40.8 million people are living with HIV globally.
· 1.3 million new infections occurred in 2024 alone.
· 630,000 lives were lost to AIDS-related illnesses last year.
✨Behind every number is a dream, a family, a story of resilience.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
For world Aids Day, We remember those we’ve lost, honor those living with HIV, and hold onto the hope that keeps us moving forward.
📊 The Global Reality is stark:
· 40.8 million people are living with HIV globally.
· 1.3 million new infections occurred in 2024 alone.
· 630,000 lives were lost to AIDS-related illnesses last year.
✨Behind every number is a dream, a family, a story of resilience.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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🧡🧡16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence🧡🧡
🛑Digital Violence Is Real Violence! 🛑
Digital violence isn’t virtual — it’s real harm‼️
👉It includes cyber-harassment, stalking, doxxing, non-consensual images, deep fakes, and targeted hate speech.
👉These attacks silence women, invade privacy, and follow them offline.
Did you know?
👉38% of women globally have experienced online violence.
👉90–95% of deep fakes target women and girls.
👉Women journalists are 73% more likely to face online harassment.
No woman should feel unsafe online❗️
UNiTE to End Digital Violence❗️
Join us this year for the 16 Days of Activism as we UNiTE to End Digital Violence.
SCORA-AA | Red Hugs❤️
EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🛑
Digital violence isn’t virtual — it’s real harm‼️
👉It includes cyber-harassment, stalking, doxxing, non-consensual images, deep fakes, and targeted hate speech.
👉These attacks silence women, invade privacy, and follow them offline.
Did you know?
👉38% of women globally have experienced online violence.
👉90–95% of deep fakes target women and girls.
👉Women journalists are 73% more likely to face online harassment.
No woman should feel unsafe online❗️
UNiTE to End Digital Violence❗️
Join us this year for the 16 Days of Activism as we UNiTE to End Digital Violence.
SCORA-AA | Red Hugs❤️
EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
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📃 Your Guide to Marburg Virus Disease is Here!
In line with the latest guidelines from the Ministry of Health, the Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH-AA) is proud to launch our comprehensive informational brochure on the Marburg Virus Disease!
This brochure is designed to provide clear, accurate, and actionable information for everyone in our community.
Inside, you will find:
✅What is Marburg Virus Disease?
✅Modes of Transmission
✅Recognizing the Signs & Symptoms
✅Crucial Prevention Measures
✅Official MOH Protocols
Let's combat misinformation with facts and prioritize community health.
📥 Download the brochure now and share it widely!
Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKbO41lqMaCeTtOOzwwOiJQJ64Gtlvkp/view?usp=drivesdk
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
In line with the latest guidelines from the Ministry of Health, the Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH-AA) is proud to launch our comprehensive informational brochure on the Marburg Virus Disease!
This brochure is designed to provide clear, accurate, and actionable information for everyone in our community.
Inside, you will find:
✅What is Marburg Virus Disease?
✅Modes of Transmission
✅Recognizing the Signs & Symptoms
✅Crucial Prevention Measures
✅Official MOH Protocols
Let's combat misinformation with facts and prioritize community health.
📥 Download the brochure now and share it widely!
Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKbO41lqMaCeTtOOzwwOiJQJ64Gtlvkp/view?usp=drivesdk
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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❓Did you know that over 1.3 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2024? Or that 1 in 5 people living with HIV aren't on life-saving treatment?
📊 Let's talk numbers—the 🌎 global ones
Our new infographic breaks down the hard facts on where we stand in the fight against HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Touch the attached the image and discover more!
It's time for awareness, action, and equity. ❤️
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
📊 Let's talk numbers—the 🌎 global ones
Our new infographic breaks down the hard facts on where we stand in the fight against HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Touch the attached the image and discover more!
It's time for awareness, action, and equity. ❤️
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡SCOPH-AA | Orange Hugs!
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📢 Gender-Based Violence is a Public Health Emergency! 🚨
According to the World Health Organization, violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive with about 1 in 3 women has been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.
This is not just a violation of human rights; it is a critical public health crisis.
The public health dimensions of GBV are clear:
•Leads to injuries, unwanted pregnancies, induced abortions, STIs (including HIV), and maternal health complications.
• Increases risks of depression, PTSD, anxiety, sleep disorders, and suicide.
• Contributes to chronic conditions and affects health and development, perpetuating intergenerational cycles of violence.
Together, let’s build health systems that heal, protect, and empower!
✨A Healthy society is one free from violence.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPHAA | Orange Hugs!
According to the World Health Organization, violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive with about 1 in 3 women has been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.
This is not just a violation of human rights; it is a critical public health crisis.
The public health dimensions of GBV are clear:
•Leads to injuries, unwanted pregnancies, induced abortions, STIs (including HIV), and maternal health complications.
• Increases risks of depression, PTSD, anxiety, sleep disorders, and suicide.
• Contributes to chronic conditions and affects health and development, perpetuating intergenerational cycles of violence.
Together, let’s build health systems that heal, protect, and empower!
✨A Healthy society is one free from violence.
💙 EMSA-AA | More than a Student!
🧡 SCOPHAA | Orange Hugs!
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Today, our SCORA AA team successfully completed the second phase of our Pad Distribution Project at the One-Stop Center, Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
We delivered the collected sanitary pads, purchased pad packs, and donated clothes to support survivors of sexual violence who receive psychological, medical, and legal services at the center.
The One-Stop Center plays a vital role in caring for girls and boys affected by sexual abuse, and they are continuously in need of pads, clothes, and detergents. By sharing this, we aim to raise awareness and encourage others to support their essential work.
This activity is proudly part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed, all student donors, and Dr. Ismail, the coordinator of the One-Stop Center at Gandhi branch, for welcoming us and guiding the visit.
Together, we continue to advocate, support, and stand for SRHR and GBV prevention.
Red hugs ❤️
SCORA-AA | EMSA- AA |
More than a student!
We delivered the collected sanitary pads, purchased pad packs, and donated clothes to support survivors of sexual violence who receive psychological, medical, and legal services at the center.
The One-Stop Center plays a vital role in caring for girls and boys affected by sexual abuse, and they are continuously in need of pads, clothes, and detergents. By sharing this, we aim to raise awareness and encourage others to support their essential work.
This activity is proudly part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed, all student donors, and Dr. Ismail, the coordinator of the One-Stop Center at Gandhi branch, for welcoming us and guiding the visit.
Together, we continue to advocate, support, and stand for SRHR and GBV prevention.
Red hugs ❤️
SCORA-AA | EMSA- AA |
More than a student!
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