Toscad News 
The “Arm Our Youths Health Campaign”, a technology-driven anti-breast and anti-cervical cancer initiative, commenced across the 37 orientation camps for the Batch A, Stream One, of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.
The Programme, an initiative of the OCI Foundation, an international NGO, is being implemented with the NYSC in collaboration with the Nigeria Cancer Society and the Nigerian First Ladies Against Cancer, as well as another NGO, Sweet Home Humanitarian Foundation.
Recalled that, in October 2021, the OCI Foundation trained staff of the NYSC from Nigeria’s 36 States and the FCT, ahead of this nationwide roll-out. The training included details of the functionalities of CerviBreast Mobile Phone Application, an anti-cancer App introduced by the Foundation to help with the early detection of Breast and Cervical Cancers.
The Foundation also launched a digital cervical cancer screening centre with Nigeria’s FCT.
In Anambra and Katsina States, the trained NYSC anchors for the Programme, Mrs Ujunwa Ubboe and Mrs Helen Sakyenu, informed the corps members that through the Cervi-Breast App, they would obtain the required preventive information, including Nollywood-themed videos relating to breast and cervical cancers.
According to the trainers, after the three weeks orientation and further online courses, corps members may be able to pass on the acquired knowledge to other youths in their host communities.
Our Correspondent reports that, tens of thousands of corps members in twenty-six States and the FCT, have so far benefited, while the remaining eleven States left would be covered in days to come.
On February 3, 2022, the Nigerian First Lady, Her Excellency, Aisha Buhari, had launched the official commencement of this Anti-Cancer Health Campaign in Abuja.
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