UCT Sustainability and the SDGs 2022 - Report - Page 14
Counselling and mental health services
Outreach services
in 2022
A range of counselling
services were offered
in 2022
435 students vaccinated during the rollout of a
Hepatitis B vaccination
Through apps: Panda App and Ollie Health
Platform for 24-hour counselling services
3 000 students attended two campus-wide
health promotion campaigns
24-hour counselling service in collaboration
with SADAG, which received approx. 400 calls
monthly from students
Virtual online support groups and mindfulness
sessions
12 234 counselling sessions
282 callouts to the crisis intervention service
2 800 students who are trained in counselling
in their undergraduate degrees support SWS as
peer counsellors
Community wellness
Khayelitsha Cervical Cancer Screening
Project
Over 85% of cases and deaths from cervical cancer
occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs),
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Khayelitsha is a
densely populated, under-resourced area in Cape
Town where women are particularly vulnerable
to cervical cancer due to lack of early medical
intervention. The Khayelitsha Cervical Cancer
Screening Project (KCCSP) is an initiative of the
Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. It was
initiated in 1995 in collaboration with Columbia
University, New York and continues today.
The KCCSP screened
1 100 women in 2022.
Over 60 000 women
have been screened
since the inception of the
project in 1995.
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