ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT OLUWANIFEMI MAKINDE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Bingham University | New Karu, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project 3.1/7 Improving Reproductive and Maternal Wellbeing
Our project focused on the maternal and reproductive health of women of reproductive ages in the Tudun wada community of Jos in Nigeria. The project aimed to improve reproductive and maternal wellbeing by carrying out a medical outreach in the community, the outreach entailed a pre -outreach publicity two days prior to the outreach date where we went to the houses in the community and invited women to the outreach location. An education session, where we educated the pregnant women on practices during and after pregnancy to help improve their health and that of their babies, the non-pregnant women were educated on safe sexual practices,hygiene and healthy practices.
A vitals session where the vitals of the women were taken including pulse rate, blood pressure and Basal metabolic rate to determine their health status.
A screening session: where the women were screened for diseases that are a major burden of the community which are malaria, HIV, syphilis and hepatitis, to help them know their status.
A counseling session: to provide medical advice based on the results of the various screening tests.
A gifting session: where the women were given condoms to improve safe sex practices, mosquito nets to prevent malaria and sanitary pads to improve menstural hygiene.
Cleaning: a clean up of the area used for the outreach.
About the Millennium Fellow
Makinde Oluwanifemi is a final year student at Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
Nifemi is passionate about how people can live better lives just by taking measures to prevent the occurrence of diseases. In the area where she lives, there are many cases of communicable disease like malaria which is taking the lives of young mothers and children and non- communicable like Hypertension which is reducing the quality of life.
Through her project, she hopes to create awareness on sustainable preventive measures that will be peculiar to the environment where she lives in. As she graduates, she hopes to specialise in Public Health to further gain experiences and knowledge that will help in the well being of people around her and to help them live their best lives.
