This year's International Men's Day will be celebrated on Saturday, November 18, 2022, with a 33-kilometer walk organized by The Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation to raise significant awareness for prostate cancer.Starting at eight in the morning, the walk would go from Ikeja beneath the bridge to Ikeja City Mall in Alausa, Ikeja.
A free prostate cancer screening for men over 45 would also be offered during the event, and doctors would be on hand to check blood pressure and blood sugar.
The event would be graced by well-known figures from Nigeria's music and Nollywood industries.
Recall that on Saturday, November 19, 2022, The Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation organized a walk.
The foundation's founder, Dozy Mmobuosi, said during the 5-kilometer walk known as "The Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation March For Men Against Prostate Cancer" that the main objective of the event was to raise awareness of prostate cancer among Nigerian men and the value of early testing. It also aimed to encourage people to get tested so they could learn their status and detect the disease early.
The 5-kilometer walk in 2022 began at 8 a.m. Participants walked from Jibowu Under Bridge to Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, where free medical tests were performed, with the presence of numerous Nigerian male celebrities, including Orits Williki, Fred Amata, and Emeka Osai. Medical professionals screened more than 500 individuals.
"Aside from this awareness campaign, the foundation through her Free Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening program, a health care vision of the foundation that was launched earlier in June this year, has held free screenings for people in Lagos and Abuja and the train will be going around the country to carry out more screenings from time to time," stated Ebuwa Martins Agbonwaneten, the Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation, at that time.
Based on the information that is currently available, men are more commonly affected by prostate cancer. Prostate cancer affects 1 in 6 black men statistically. Additionally, 1,414,259 persons worldwide are expected to receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in 2020.
A non-profit organization called the Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation has led the charge in raising awareness of the threat posed by prostate cancer and the significance of early identification in the fight against the disease.