Organisation
Health Promotion Alliance
What We Do!
Gender Hub
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Gender Hub
Gender is a socially constructed roles shaped by cultural attributes and acts as risk factors. Communicating risk, raising awareness, and sensitizing the community on certain diseases especially infectious diseases requires consideration of gender differences which can varies from culture to culture and from one community to another. The team at HPAC considers gender responsive approaches in advocacy activities and inform policy.
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Health Promoting Schools Initiative
HPAC aims to strengthen the capacity of schools and staff in building a health environment for living, learning, and working. HPAC collaborates with schools and the regional delegation for basic and secondary education to implement projects, identify gaps across schools and design innovative intervention, enhance healthy living communities, and raise awareness through advocacy activities to strengthen a healthy environment in schools.
Advocacy Activities
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Advocacy Activities
On March HPAC joined voices with the regional delegation of Basic Education for South West Region Cameroon to celebrate the International Mother tongue day. HPAC sensitized on the importance of using the local dialects amongst other spoken languages to raise awareness on COVID19 risk factors amongst pupils in schools
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Youth Hub
Most of the population in Cameroon is made up of youths and some of the diseases conditions developed at later stages in life are because of youthful lifestyles. This team is focused on recognizing the role of peer to peer communication and youth champions and leadership in raising awareness and advocating for healthy policies that incorporates youth perspectives.
Health Literacy
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Health Literacy
Improving health literacy in populations provides the foundation on which citizens are enabled to play an active role in improving their health status, engage successfully with community action for health, and push governments to meet their responsibilities in addressing health and health equity. Health Promotion Alliance is interested in raising the literacy level of the population through its health education, seminars and sensitization campaigns and advocacy activities.
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Non-Communicable Diseases
NCDs threaten progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a target of reducing premature deaths from NCDs by one-third by 2030. To reduce the burden of these diseases, Health Promotion Alliance Cameroon is focused on minimizing the burden of diseases by collaborating with the district health teams in promoting and advocating for a healthy living for the community.
Communicable Diseases
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Communicable Diseases
With the high prevalence of communicable diseases Africa, such as malaria, AIDS and Tuberculosis, attaining the Sustainable Development Goal is a great challenge. To promote healthy living and fight against non-communicable diseases, HPAC intend to provide sound contributions to improve the quality of lives in the community through promotion and advocacy for sustainable policies decisions.
Area of Focus of Health Promotion
The Health Promotion Concept is Based on five areas
- Build Health Public Policy
- Create Supportive Environments
- Strengthen Community Actions
- Develop Personal Skills
- Re-orien Health Services
Address List & Social Networks
REACH US THROUGH
- Yaounde Cameroon
- (+237)676 24 11 52 (+237)654 86 72 54
- [email protected]
SOCIAL NETWORKS
- @Health Promotion Alliance
- @twitterhandle
- whatsapp_profile
Useful Links & Organisation
HPAC Org.