Posted on January 26, 2023
With support from HIGHER HEALTH together with our universities, TVETs and CET colleges along
with our thousands of volunteers trained as HIGHER HEALTH peer educators and our frontline
workers, we can help our students with health and psycho-social challenges they may face, so
that they can achieve the academic aspirations and take their rightful place in society.
The three-step health and psycho-social wellbeing interventions provided by HIGHER HEALTH
entail the following:
ONE: please help us reach out to the first year students towards encouraging them to enrol within
the HIGHER HEALTH Extra-Mural Civic and Health Curriculum available across your campus,
which offers health, safety and wellness resources and runs alongside the academic programme.
TWO: please help us to encourage the more and more young students to use the HIGHER
HEALTH early assessment and risk screening tools for early detection of diseases like HIV, TB,
STIs, Sexual Reproductive Health, mental health, Covid-19, social challenges like GBV riskscreening, drugs and alcohol, among others for early detection and linkage to support services.
THREE: please use access to campus health professionals, counsellors, psychologists and the
HIGHER HEALTH TOLL-FREE 24-HOUR CRISIS HELPLINE - 0800 36 36 36.
For more information, see the attached document.
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