Shudufhadzo Musida is set to grace the international stage when she addresses a United Nations convened event about the importance of education for girls and young women.
Miss South Africa, Shudufhadzo Musida is set to grace the international stage on Thursday when she addresses a United Nations convened event about the importance of education for girls and young women.
Musida will be joined by former AU Youth Envoy Aya Chebbi, UNAids executive director Winnie Byanyima, Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro and Gabon Prime Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda.
According to Channel24, Musida’s focus will be on the need for mental health education, which affects all health aspects.
“I feel very strongly about the need for education around issues of mental health, and especially the removal of the stigma attached to anything to do with mental illness.
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“An emphasis on mental health services may assist in the prevention and management of HIV. I call the mind the Powerhouse, the tool that can change lives and the narratives that exist in our society. For any change to come about in our societies, we need to empower the mind because if we do not – we will live in a society that has low levels of self-awareness, inhibiting much-needed progress needed for our collective development,” the report quoted Musida as saying.
The event is held under the auspices of the Generation Equality Forum, a global movement for gender equality, which this year sees the launch of the Education Plus Initiative (2021-2025), a Sunday Times report said.
This is a high-profile advocacy drive to mobilise decision makers to accelerate action and investment to address the alarming numbers of adolescent girls and young women acquiring HIV and dying of Aids in sub-Saharan Africa through the power of secondary education, the report said.
Before she won the Miss South Africa title in October 2020, Musida was completing an Honors degree in International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
