IFMSA-Egypt Newsletter - 1st issue

IFMSA-Egypt

Newsletter Issue No. 1

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IFMSA - EGYPT About IFMSA-Egypt

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IFMSA – Egypt is a non-political, non-religious and non-profit non-governmental student-run organization that represents more than 80,000 Medical Students all over Egypt.

IFMSA – Egypt is the only legally recognized non-governmental organization (NGO) that is active and represented in all Medical Schools all over Egypt through its Members in 20 Medical Schools in the following Universities: Ain Shams, Al-Azhar, Alexandria, Assuit, Benha, Bani Suaif, Fayoum, Kasr ElAiny, Kena, October 6th, Masr University for Science & Technology, Mansoura, Menofia, Menia, Sohag, Suez Canal, Tanta and Zagazig.

IFMSA – Egypt is a full National Member Organization of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) which is the only official body of Medical Students worldwide made up of 114 National Member Organisations from 101 Countries spanning all continents. IFMSA is officially recognized as a non-governmental organization within the United Nations (UN) and it is also recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the official international forum for medical students.

Since 1969, IFMSA-Egypt has been led by and for Medical Students in Egypt. Our Mission is to offer future Egyptian Physicians a comprehensive introduction to global health issues by taking part in the international medical students’ community to broaden their spectrum and reach their full potential. Our themes cover all major Health topics and Medical-students-related interests and they are: Public Health, Reproductive Health & AIDS, Human Right & Peace, Medical Education and Professional & Research Exchange.

Consequently, the goal of our organization is to serve society and medical students all over Egypt through its members by: •Empowering medical students to use their knowledge and capacities for the benefit of society.

•Providing a forum for medical students throughout Egypt to discuss topics related to individual and community health issues, education and science and to formulate policies from such discussions, as well.

•Promoting and facilitating professional and scientific exchanges as well as projects and extracurricular trainings for medical students, thereby sensitizing them to other cultures and societies and their health problems.

•Providing a link between members, medical students’ associations within Egypt and international organizations, and to encourage the cooperation between them for the ultimate benefit of society.

Imprint Editor in chief

Ismail El-Kharbotly

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Rami Abdallah Proof-readers Ismail El-Kharbotly Nowrus Emad Dalia Abd El-Nasser Publisher IFMSA-Egypt This publication is property of IFMSA-Egypt. No other parties are allowed to use this logbook for any other purposes without prior consent.

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Editorial Dear IFMSA-Egypt members and IFMSA friends worldwide:

Great change is taking place in IFMSA-Egypt.

As we expand into more medical schools, affecting more medical students by the day, and as we are more deeply involved in the core of Egyptian society as a fully legal NGO, it brings one great pride to be able to work with great designers and writers to produce this newsletter: a digest of some of our most recent achievements in the fields of medical student empowerment and community service.

I would like to extend thanks to everyone who has helped made this newsletter a reality. I would like to thank the members of the IFMSA-Egypt publications team in particular for their support, skill and incomparable devotion. You make your NMO proud.

We do hope you enjoy reading our newsletter.

It was created with love.

Ismail El-Kharbotly

IFMSA-Egypt Director of Publications 2012/2013

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It brings me sincere pleasure to welcome you all to the inaugural issue of the IFMSA-Egypt Newsletter. This newsletter represents the efforts of numerous talented individuals, and showcases what goes on behind the scenes in one of oldest IFMSA NMOs.

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Welcome Message

Dear Friends, It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I introduce to you the First Edition of IFMSA-Egypt Newsletter.

Mennat-Allah El-Beheiry IFMSA-Egypt President

IFMSA-Egypt is the only Non-Governmental Organisation that is active and represented in all the Medical Schools all over Egypt, IFMSA-Egypt is a Full National Member Organisation in IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations).

For more than 40 years, IFMSA-Egypt has been led by and for Medical Students in Egypt. We work in order to offer future Egyptian Physicians a comprehensive introduction to global health issues by taking part in the international medical students’ community to broaden their spectrum and reach their full potential.

We work in different themes that cover all major Health topics and Medical-students-related interests; Public Health, Reproductive Health & AIDS, Human Rights & Peace, Medical Education and Professional & Research Exchange.

In this newsletter you will get the chance to know more about our different, activities, initiatives and projects that empower Medical Students in Egypt to use their knowledge and capacities for the benefit of themselves, their peers, and their community.

Last but not least, I hope that you take the time to enjoy our newsletter.

Thank you for your interest in IFMSA-Egypt!

On behalf of IFMSA-Egypt Family,

Mennat-Allah El-Beheiry

IFMSA-Egypt President 2012-2013

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I am a volunteer!!!!

Hussein El-Sayed

IFMSA-Egypt Vice President Margaret Mead said “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful com-

mitted citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

I believed in these words since I read them and started to put them into action.

I’ve been a volunteer for six year now through working with TSSA and IFMSAEgypt. Volunteering is not something that I do out of my own generosity, I consider it as a debt to society that we all should pay or we will only be just a burden on it.

Throughout my volunteer work I gave my time, knowledge and energy but I received much more. Socialization is one of the priceless gains; I met new friends who provided me with guidance and support, I was introduced to important figures who offered me job opportunities and I developed my skills .Also I was offered the chance of travelling abroad. However, the biggest gift volunteer work gave me was helping others and drawing smiles on their faces.

I’m a doctor, I heal people’s wounds and by volunteering in all kinds of projects.

I m healing the wounds of the society. I’ve seen people dedicate their whole life to volunteer work. They changed my attitude towards life and taught me altruism, modesty and generosity.

I honestly believe that Hussein Elsayed before this experience is a totally different person from the one writing to you right now. Thanks to IFMSA- Egypt I gained a lot when I gave without expecting anything back.

I love being

a volunteer

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A Story about an Egyptian SRT

Under the glistening oriental sun and over the beautiful Red Sea coast, IFMSA-Egypt held a memorable gathering of 80 medical students from all over the world for its Sub-Regional Training.

Dedicated to the training of LEOs and LOREs of the IFMSA, the 1st IFMSA-Egypt SRT brought to together a series of workshops, trainings and small working groups in a collective program in a period of 3 unforgettable days joining sessions, workshops and parties you wouldn’t miss.

The SRT took place on the coastal city of Ain el Sokhna right on the dazzling blue Red Sea in Amigo Resort to where the trip was destined on the 30th of April Cairo International Airport to small Red Sea resort for an opportunity to introduce all the participants to the global environment of the IFMSA. 14 Trainings to develop and nurture various skills members would utilize during their IFMSA journey ranging from communication and presentation to leadership and designing skills. The trainings in the SRT program were carried out by 5 great trainers who conducted various IFMSA training topics including communication skills, Conflict resolution , leadership, Photoshop in design, Intercultural learning and many other.

Alongside the trainings held in our SRT, Small Working Groups and workshops were conducted including Academic quality, Marketing and advertising introducing participants to the collaborative process of producing the best outcomes and solutions to empower our Standing Committee.

The SRT also included a Training New Trainers (TNT) workshop to introduce a new generation of IFMSA-certified trainers to go back home and provide their members with informative and exciting IFMSA training sessions that will pass one of the many amazing touches the IFMSA provides to its members.

The journey was concluded on the 3rd of May with a group trip to the fabulous wonder of the world, the Giza Pyramids, and a night out with a dazzling view of the city’s skyline from above the metropolitan’s longest tower, the Cairo Tower.

Summing up, the experience was a truly unforgettable one and the skills, knowledge and friendships everyone took home were those to keep forever.

IFMSA-Egypt SCOPH

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HY Five

Speech Amr Gamal

IFMSA-EGYPT NPO Dear friends all over the world; Orange Greetings from the IFMSA-EGYPT SCOPH Team In brief, I would like to concentrate our main targets and goals for this term for all of you; we are all SCOPHians here in IFMSA-EGYPT; our aim is to get rid of many endemic diseases and problems affecting our public here beside getting more involved in the international common problems and to share together with all IFMSA SCOPHians facing problems for better Public Health.

Our plan for this term is mainly dependent upon our new SCOPH Assistant Team for 2012-2013, who will work hard for the sake of IFMSA-EGYPT SCOPH. Higher spirit, More professionalism, Better representation and involvement ..We can do it.

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Mohammed Abd El-Ghany HY Five National Coordinator

HY Five is a campaign for promoting hand hygiene aiming to increase awareness on the right ways of having good hand hygiene and its role in reducing infection. For example, In the United States, hospital patients get nearly 2 million infections each year. That’s about 1 infection for every 20 patients.

Infections that patients get in the hospital can be life-threatening and hard to treat. Simply Hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of infections So for this great importance, we decided as SCOPHeroes in IFMSA-Egypt to face the challenge, to unite the effort of medical students around Egypt, to work together in putting a limit to the alarming rate of spread of infectious diseases in Egypt and to give back to our community through HY Five Project.

7 We Started the Project 2 years ago on the fifth of May and most of our IFMSA-Egypt L.Cs Participated in the project in 4 Cities Alexandria , Banhaa ,Zagazig and Assiut Reaching a target of more than one thousand people.

After that, we prepared for the celebrations for the International Hand Hygiene Day in October 2011 reaching more than 5000 people in all IFMSA-Egypt L.Cs. But that was not enough for the IFMSA-Egypt SCOPHeroes Nowadays, we are planning for a big Camping consisting of 2 phases: The first will be in May 2013 and the second will be in October 2013 through which we will

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Completing the

BLUE circle

Eman Ismail SSS-Cairo

IFMSA-Egypt WDD celebration - Al-Azhar Park 14th of November 2012

Whether they’re medical personnel, a patient, or just a concerned relative, the word Diabetes has left an impact on the lives of millions. With a decrease in communicable diseases and a change in ones’ life style, comes an increase in the non communicable diseases especially diabetes. Statistics show that in the year 2012, 347 million people worldwide were recorded to have diabetes.

In IFMSA-Egypt, We decided to take drastic measures towards this issue. Fifteen different medical schools spread throughout the month of November all around Egypt to give awareness on the risk factors, effects, and control of this disease - in addition to providing free screening tests for the public. We targeted around 10,500 people, including diabetic patients, medical students, and at risk residents.

On November 14, all the local committees in IFMSA-Egypt joined together in one of the most populated parks in Cairo, Egypt to give a strong effective health message.

This way, we united with the rest of the world on the International Diabetes Day to help spread awareness and reduce the complications of diabetes. Our dream is to help complete the blue circle and fight diabetes.

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Safe Liver Amr Gamal

National coordinator of Safe Liver-Hepatitis

When we talk about important organs in our body, we can’t miss that great organ which gets rid of all harmful toxins in our body plus sharing in the main metabolic process; it is our Liver.

Our main goal in SCOPH is dealing with most of the diseases and problems that people around us are suffering from.

So we, as IFMSA-EGYPT SCOPH family, have observed the disaster of Hepatitis (mainly HBV & HCV) killing many people and affecting a huge number of Egyptians.

As a trial for helping and sharing our community in a positive effective manner against that disaster, we started a year ago by an IFMSA-EGYPT National Project entitled “Safe Liver – Hepatitis” in which we stressed upon many axes along 4 main phases; the 1st phase was a workshop for medical students and our team in the National Institute of Liver Diseases to train us and to get the most important information in the simplest ways to be delivered to the public.

Passing through our 2nd phase which was an awareness campaign among medical students, doctors and paramedical teams who are high risk groups for getting infected by HBV & HCV plus getting a great offer and opportunity to get them vaccinated against HBV. We are still working now on our 3rd phase which is concerned with public awareness among all areas of Egypt especially the poor areas and villages by awareness campaigns and conveys to spread awareness against this disaster.

We are aiming to reach our 4th phase by getting a great international event about the most up to date and recent information about this disease for more protection and treatment for our future.

SCOPHians

IFMSA-Egypt National Hepatitis workshop Egyptian National Hepatic Institute

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IFMSA-Egypt SCOME

NOME’s Word

Ahmad Badr Mesbah IFMSA-Egypt NOME

As medical students and the future medical teachers and passers of knowledge, it became a necessity for us to be the first quality check of medical education.

As a group of motivated SCOMEdians, it is our role to continue fighting for medical education, throughout increasing awareness among medical students and advocating for change.

With all the advancements and continuous search for the best teaching techniques and assessment, it is our duty as medical students to influence the creation of new curricula and curriculum development.

We are slowly coming into light, and the seed of change and renovation grows day by day to guarantee better medical education.

The Standing Committee on Medical Education faces a lot of challenges, especially in Egypt, where stubborn decision makers continue to support a failing education system and a weak research and student development infrastructure.

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Change is never easy, and with a whole lot of traditional minds and old-fashioned thinking, there will be a huge resistance to change. However, throughout persistent campaigns, education, awareness, advocacy and commitment, the medical education wheel will be pushed forward.

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AUSSS-SCOME Local Campaigns Haitham Omar

Local Officer of Medical Education – AUSSS

Carnival and Talent Show: As a yearly tradition, the Ain Shams University Students’ Scientific Society holds an annual Talent Show.

During the show, you will listen to good music and tunes, interact with heart-touching poetry, and laugh your mind off at comical plays.

Orientation Session: We all think about our medical career, and we are always concerned about the decision regarding how to continue after graduation.

SCOME will help you find your place around the different scholarships and the USMLEs.

The Quiz: Also to introduce some sort of fun we hold our campaign “The Quiz” which blends a mixture between fun and medical knowledge as we form 16 teams from the medical students and we start to play two games which are “Pictionary” and “Taboo”.

We use medical terms in both games so as to refresh our medical knowledge besides having some fun.

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Change

your job - Smile X

Alaa A. Ismai’l SSS Member

One day, I was wondering whether we choose to change the way we think and act, or whether the life changing situations choose us! Whatever the answer is, we always strive to reach idealism.

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For me, the time for Change has come immediately after I tried to Walk like a real

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Physician .

The story began with a plan to visit to those whom we learn to cure: a visit to hospitalized patients. And there, I realized that patients need more than medication to be cured! Kids don’t need orders and prohibitions to regain their vitality! The elderly don’t need permanent bed rest either!

They do NOT need cursory treatment!

That made me want to get to know the patient, to get closer to what they need. They need to see and hear the doctor’s interest and love; they need to feel the warmth of his radiating smile.

So, as a future ideal physician, I choose to change my job. Mine will be to bring SMILES. And for you, Always give the Patient your attention. Listen more and speak less.

Always try to ease their fright and pain.

Always keep in mind that a true physician treats the soul as well as the body.

And always smile; make it the upcoming doctors’ lifestyle.

Only then we could be successful, beloved and trusted therapists.

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IFMSA-Egypt SCORP

The Cost of Life: So Easy, Yet So Difficult

Omar Mokhtar IFMSA-Egypt NORP

“Health is not mainly a matter of doctors, social services and hospitals, but an issue of social justice.” Indian scholar K. Park The most significant determinant of an individual’s access to healthcare service is their socioeconomic status among other factors governing inequality of access to healthcare globally. Consequently, the discriminated distribution of wealth and poverty are accounted for the most hazardous inequities underprivileged populations face taking into consideration that a slight shift in the global economic attitude can turn the situation around.

About 6 billion people live inhabit our world out of which 5 billion live in low and middle income countries. The 5 billion suffer from 93% of the global burden of disease but have access to 11% of global health care resources. More than 40% of the world’s health care resources are spent in the United States. In 2001, 14.1% of the United State’s budget was allocated to health care meaning an average of over USD 5000 per person. This is some 500 times more than the amount spent in the poorest countries in the world.

The entire international health collaboration only accounts for 6 billion USD (10% of global funding) which leads us to the fact that the greatest share of spending comes from individuals and countries themselves, alarming considering the socioeconomic hardships such countries most probably encounter.

Accordingly, it is definitely an issue of social injustice that over 8 million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases annually, and that pneumococcal diseases became the number one vaccine-preventable cause of death worldwide with an annual mortality of 1.6 million people. It is an impending situation which is further exacerbated by poor social policies, bad politics and unfair economics.

14 To address these health issues, the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health suggested 3 principles of action to face this imbalance in healthcare services: 1.Improve the conditions of daily life—the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age 2.Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources—the structural drivers of those conditions of daily life—globally, nationally, and locally.

3.Measure the problem, evaluate action, expand the knowledge base, develop a workforce that is trained in the social determinants of health, and raise public awareness about the social determinants of health.

As an independent medical students’ body engaged in the efforts of civil society to tackle healthcare inequality, these principles are feasible for adoption to fully orient the public and direct decision-makers to responsibly allocate national resources to the sectors of population with low socioeconomic standards both globally and nationally.

Empowering our communities to take action against healthcare service inequality using any means possible is essential to facilitate healthcare reforms already taking place especially in the developing countries aspiring to an undiscriminating and prosperous future.

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Low–income countries

Healthy Rich

Poor

Vietnam

Kosovo Nicaragua Micronesia

Sick Tuvalu

Nepal

Tajikistan Laos

Comoros

Togo

Eritrea Liberia

Guinea

Uganda

Zimbabwe

500

Niger

Mozambique

1 000

Moldova

Uzbekistan

Paki- Solostan mon Isl.

Iraq Mongolia

India

Brazil

Maldives

Georgia

Morocco

Fiji

Guatemala

DR Tonga El Jamaica Samoa Salvador Palau

Ukraine

Egypt

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Lesotho

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Liechten-

stein Netherlands LuxBel- Ireland embourg gium Austria Denmark Kuwait UAE Brunei

Slovenia

USA

Qatar

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Suriname

Bhutan

Nauru

Trinidad & Tobago

Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan

Russia

Kiribati

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2.

3.

4.

5.

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San Marino Monaco Cyprus Montenegro Saint Lucia St Vincent & Grenadines

Colour by region:

Namibia

Gabon

Sudan

Botswana Congo, Rep.

Burkina Faso

Mali

Portugal

Sweden Hong Kong Andorra Iceland Switzerland Australia SingaCanada pore Norway

South Korea GreeceUK

Latvia Seychelles LebaMauritiusnon Lithuania

Iran Turkey

Thailand

Guyana

Bolivia

Mexico

Mauritania Ghana Senegal Djibouti Kenya

Sierra Leone Guinea-Bissau Central African Rep.

Afghanistan

Indonesia

Puerto Rico

Taiwan Barbados Albania Croatia Uruguay Czech Rep. Belize ArgenOman Grenada Panama Poland Bahrain Dominica tina Slovakia Venezuela Ecuador Macedonia4 Serbia Malaysia Antigua & Barbuda Libya Bahamas Tunisia Colo-5 Hungary Bulgaria mbia Algeria Peru St Kitts & N. Estonia Saudi Arabia Romania Jordan

Armenia Honduras Paraguay

Vanuatu

Chile

Israel Finland New Zealand 2 Malta 3

France

Bosnia & H.

Syria Sri Lanka Cape Verde

Costa Rica

Gambia

South Africa

Cameroon

Rwanda

Somalia

Philippines

Cuba

China

TimorPapua Leste New Guinea

Côte d'Ivoire Tanzania

Malawi

Congo, DR

Yemen Cambodia

Haiti

Ethiopia

Burundi

São Tomé & P.

Benin

Myanmar

Madagascar

55

45

Kyrgyzstan

North Korea

Bangladesh

65

50

Marshall Isl.

Palestine

Germany Italy Spain

Chad

Equatorial Guinea

Nigeria

Angola

Zambia

2 000

3 or less

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100

1000 millions

Data are for 2009 for all 192 UN member states and the other 5 countries and territories with more than 1 million people (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Palestine, Puerto Rico and Kosovo).

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Swaziland

5 000

Size by population:

http://www.gapminder.org/worldmap

10 000

Money GDP per person in US dollars (purchasing power adjusted) (log scale)

20 000

50 000

____________________________________________________ References: http://www.gapminder.org/ http://www.globalissues.org/article/588/global-health-overview Global Health: An Introductory textbook, Ann Lindstrand, Staffan Bergstrom, Hans Rosling, Birgitta Rubenson, Bo Stenson, Thorkild Tylleskar

Gapminder World Chart 2010 Version May 2010b

Health Life expectancy at birth (years)

70

60

Japan

Gapminder World Map 2010

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75

High–income countries

Middle–income countries

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Peace Mohamed Saber

National coordinator of peace Based on our responsibility towards our country and coinciding with transferring of the committee from SCOHP to SCORP, a peace project started under the slogan “give peace a chance”.

The aim of our project is to raise the people’s awareness about peace culture, stressing on the inner peace of individuals which is the nucleus of the peaceful community for which we are all looking.

The project started by a peace related questionnaire targeting about 6,000 students in 12 universities all over Egypt representing various intellectual groups to assess their concept about peace, then 40 IFMSA-Egypt members have received Peace TOT by MasterPeace (our partner) to begin spreading the message in our community in both universities and schools targeting more than 400 students using “Peaceo”, an imaginary peace currency.

We celebrated the international peace day in collaboration with MasterPeace and other NGOs who had the same vision. “Meet the Hibakusha”, a conference with Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors was held in the faculty of Political Sciences and Economics in Cairo University at 21th of September.

The conference was the main event in which we shared organization. On the other hand, other activates were organized by MasterPeace that we attended , like movie nights, dialogue sessions and finally the street art festival on the 28th of September which was attended by about 3000 people.

We dream of the peaceful Egyptian people who can achieve our revolution’s goals, and recognize our righteous martyrs’ rights.

Meet the Hibakusha, 21th of september 2012

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SCORP World

Summer Fouda

Ever dreamt?

I did.

Ever dreamt of what?

Success - money - a car - a partner..

Local officer on Human Rights and Peace - ZMSSA

Ever dreamt of a world?

No, never.

Okay then, come dream with me..

I dream of a world where love is not mind controlled, peace is widespread, and human rights are life-enrolled.

Why? Because whenever mind is taking over love, the deep hidden monstrous thinking of man can take over.

Greed, ruthlessness, selfishness and all the recessive human attributions flow to the surface covering all the beautiful commissioner sensations.

This way, peace will never be widespread and when this happens, war will be everywhere violating Human Rights.

I dream of a SCORP world because, you see, In SCORP we are making worlds.

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IFMSA-Egypt SCORA

SCORAngels Nancy Mohamed Soliman Noah IFMSA-Egypt NORA

SCORA, The Standing Committee on Reproductive health including AIDS, is a unique standing committee in IFMSA. It aims for the target of zero HIV infected individuals through raising the awareness of the public, especially medical students or other medical personnel as they are considered to be part of a continuous circle that we should stop, through education.

Not just that, but it also fights gender inequality, empowers females to have a productive role in the society and above all, it fights the unforgettable nightmare, reproductive neoplasms! Studies found that the best we could do to fight cancer is through early detection.

So, our main goal is to let people know the methods of early detection of reproductive neoplasms as breast Cancer and prostate cancer.

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Here in Egypt we have a bad habit that has evolved over the years, Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is considered one of the most serious habits that is spreading in a malignant way in our society due to the lack of proper communication and education in the community.

IFMSA-Egypt SCORA is fighting this myth with great potential; first, we trained over 350 medical students, and offered them all what they need to know about FGM and how it changed from being a myth to habit! And now we are on our way to the next step which is the campaign to educate the community and help them understand the consequence of FGM on females and how it is going to affect and ruin their family life.

Last but not least, I believe that SCORAngels is a word that says it we are all angels coming with faith, love, life and equality! ;)

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Bassant Adel Abdelaal

Head of PR – International Women’s Day Seminar

They say: “If you don’t like being a door mat, then GET OFF THE FLOOR!” Take the floor is the most suitable slogan to describe the International Women’s Day. It is very obvious that the life cycle of a female is much different than that of a male – both have the same beginning as kids, we play with no borders, no limits and no judgments.

It is a total different situation as females grow up; they are expected to be in all of a sudden mature ladies with manners and zero imperfections to be counted as a good female.

With such a vision of the society for women, they either turn out to be an unconfident, inefficient spare part, or they choose to be the society’s talk by struggling and working against the flow.

The International Women’s Day seminar’s aim is to highlight how any woman can be the talk of the society and to inspire ladies from all age groups on how each one of them can be a role model! Women seeing others success stories, and how they got out of unbearable situations by the naturally built in power in them.

The stories are the best examples of what women are able to do. A good example is having a female president in IFMSA-Egypt regardless the strong presence of male power is a proof of the women’s power to achieve the highest positions.

The amount of successful stories we are presenting in our seminar on Wednesday March the 6th will push you to the right track. The secret of getting ahead is getting started!

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