Keeping it Real - Fostering individual agency to create capabilities, thus facilitating good health. (1) Living and/or encountering with/a mental illness.
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(1) Physical and mental ill-health; learning difficulties; long-term unemployment; lack of skills and work experience; lack of self-confidence; crime and social circumstances: these are the kinds of barriers some people have to overcome to secure work and independence. At the heart of our effectiveness is our commitment to those we help. We work one-on-one, tailoring just the right balance of practical assistance and emotional support. Time and again, our support for people on their challenging journeys to good health and/or employment has achieved amazing outcomes. Empowering people to lead more self-reliant and rewarding lives includes enabling their families, communities and businesses to support them. Our specialist services are highly effective, and everyone benefits from a more diverse and engaged society. (2) THE SILENT KILLER: “Cervical cancer is fully preventable and curable, at low cost and at low risk, when Screening to facilitate the timely detection of early precursor lesions in asymptomatic Women is available together with appropriate diagnosis, treatment and follow-up” The burden of cervical cancer is quite low in the developed countries of the world. The situation is quite the reverse in developing countries where it constitutes a major health problem. While the incidence is decreasing in the former, it is on the increase in the later. This is a source of great concern considering the fact that cervical cancer is preventable and curable at low cost with currently available methods. Sub-Sahara Africa is the region with the highest incidence of cervical cancer in the world with concomitant high mortality affecting women at their prime. There are no screening programs for early detection of precancerous lesions within the countries of Sub Sahara Africa. Most screening activities are done as pilot or research projects which are discontinued on completion. South Africa is the only country in the region with a national cytology based screening program since 2001 but then coverage remains poor and the impact on invasive cervical cancer is unknown. The onset of HIV/AIDS epidemic that is highest in the sub region has elevated the problem of cervical cancer to a serious level. To compound the problem is the widespread lack of resources associated with the region.
