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IMPROVING SOMALI HEALTH AWARENESS iSHA (improving Somali health awareness) is a non-profit organisation, co-founded in December 2020, that aims to combat poor health literacy within the Somali community. There are approximately 108,000 Somali people residing in the UK according to the Office for National Statistics in 2018. Somali people are at a higher risk for developing COVID-19 amongst other diseases such as CVD and diabetes. Despite this, there are barely any research articles highlighting this. In addition, there is not a lot of information regarding health literacy within the Somali community and as such, one of iSHA’s aims is to spread awareness of this issue and publish research articles to fill the research gap for this community.
