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GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
3.3  Collaborations and health services
3.3.2  Health outreach programmes

Deliver outreach programmes and projects in the local community (which can include student volunteering programmes) to improve or promote health and well-being including hygiene, nutrition, family planning, sports, exercise, aging well, and other health and well-being related topics.
This can also include outreach programmes to displaced or refugee communities local to the institution.

  • Local communities
  • Disadvantaged people
  • Refugee/immigrant communities
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Evidence
1.
THE latest stop for the breast cancer screening outreach campaign run by the Society for Cancer Advocacy and Awareness (SCAN) and Sarawak Breast Cancer Support Group (SBCSG) in Kapit recently, signified the importance of this programme. The 38-door longhouse Rumah Untang in Ulu Yong, Kapit, was the fourth leg of this project, led by Dr Melissa Lim of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
2.
In conjunction with World Malaria Day on April 25th, The UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI GCRF) and UNIMAS “Dana Lestari” provided funding support for a community programme that was held at Rumah Panjang Manok Manchal Sg Yong Kapit with the goal of promoting preventive measures against zoonotic malaria.