In October 2007, a group of medical students from the SSS headed to the Ob/Gyn hospital and Abo El-Riish with the aim of finding women in the reproductive age. We planned to educate these women on the epidemiology of breast cancer, and how they could protect themselves against it. We emphasized the Breast Self Examination and how, if done routinely, it can detect the cancer at a very early stage and minimize the damage. The campaign was successful and now we are eagerly planning phase 2 of the project, which will also include other cancers of the reproductive systems as Testicular Cancer and Ovarian Cancer.

The past 3 years witnessed successful and increasingly elaborate celebrations of the WAD by the SSS SCORA team. This year we had two main events related to HIV/AIDS due to its rising incidence in Egypt and the continuous ignorance of its significance.

In December 2007, on the World AIDS Day, we organized the first National Conference on AIDS, organized by students under the theme ''Young Medical Students' Leading the Response''. It was organized in cooperation with IFMSA-Egypt, our national affiliates and UNAIDS. We hosted more than 600 students and doctors from all medical schools in Egypt. Students from other faculties such as dentistry, mass communication and engineering also attended the conference. The outcome of the conference was unbelievable. We were honored to have some of the best of speakers from organizations such as NAP, CARITAS-Alexandria, Y-PEER and Dance for Life. Doctors from different faculties of medicine also contributed.

The conference discussed a large number of topics including the latest updates in HIV/AIDS research, the epidemiology of the disease and the services provided by the ministry of health for people living with HIV/AIDS in Egypt.

In addition to the conference, the SSS SCORA team also launched a campaign to increase awareness of our future doctors. It was set in the middle of campus, with us educating them about the methods of transmission and speaking to them about the seriousness of the problem, outlining its rapid growth in our country. During the campaign, which took place in March, we informed the students of the effects of stigma on the community as a whole and we asked them to each write a sentence summarizing their feelings about the syndrome.

A new project in the SSS targeting medical students and aiming to educate them on the different hazards associated with this brutal act. The project will discuss the topic from the scientific view and will help to open more discussions, encourage creative thinking and fight the ignorance we are currently facing. The first part of the campaign was the questionnaire assessing the target audience's current knowledge and their suggestions for the campaign. Further steps will take place during the year.

This is a new peer education project, which instructs medical students on how to approach sensitive topics, such as HIV/AIDS, and promotes a new way of campaigning that depends mainly on bilateral communication. The project is a partnership between IFMSA-Egypt and UNICEF.

An international project that aims to facilitate the exchange of experience between SCORA teams in different parts of the world. Students from the SSS SCORA team got the chance to represent Egypt in this project and to gain access to different techniques and methods performed in other countries. Now Egypt is organizing this exchange for the first time in July 2009.Participants will visit three cities Cairo, Alexandria and Assiut.