Challenging global #epilepsy by reducing the diagnostic + treatment gaps in Ghana🇬🇭, Kenya🇰🇪 and Tanzania🇹🇿.
Based @UniofOxford | Funded by @NIHRresearch.
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: https://t.co/mwEPqGlxqT
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
It takes people like Judy Baariu and Mary Bitta, winners of the Science Engagement prize at this year's Falling Walls festival https://t.co/w4h5nrHDOF to keep fighting to end stigma for people with epilepsy #difu_simo#epilepsyafrica#epilepsypathway#nihrglobal#epilepsyKE
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 https://t.co/e9UrNxqXqd. #epilepsyawareness#advocate4epilepsy#epilepsyeducation
On May 28, 2021 Governor Jared Polis signed Joey's Law into law, requiring all Colorado public schools to have at least one staff person trained in the recognition and treatment of seizures. Your Colorado Gives Day donation will support our continued advocacy on behalf of the ...
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 https://t.co/rG83BGGuCT #ISAW2021
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 https://t.co/4y6Q9fX3Mc
There is a PhD post to work on the EPInA project, hosted by KEMRI Kilifi. Deadline 12th Nov 21. See advert for details https://t.co/2U8vghlH7X #phdpositions#kemri#epilepsy
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.
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