Tulu Bolo, in Ethiopia, will be the first General Hospital in the country to start chemotherapy for the treatment of lung cancer. This is a great innovation for the national health service and for the treatment of patients who hitherto had no access to decentralised and specialised services.
The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday 5th of May more than three years after the pandemic was announced. Since then, we have been working hard to counter the spread of the virus both in Africa and Italy.
After 18 days of heart-breaking violence, every attempt of ceasefire has failed while fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support forces (RSF) continues to ravage the capital Khartoum and many other regions across the country.
The presentation of the 2022 Annual Maternal Health Report at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, confirms the need to be there in spite of everything.
The interim assessment of IMPULSE- Improving Quality And Use Of Newborn Indicators was held yesterday at Doctors with Africa CUAMM headquarter in Padua. All the partners involved seated at the table.
A total of 100,000 people, mainly mothers and children, among displaced persons and hosts, have received life-saving treatment, thanks to a project developed in Debre Berhan, in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where the situation remains critical due to the conflict.
A 55-days-long adventure begun with the labour and ended when the four twins were discharged from Tosamaganga hospital, Tanzania. A story of success, joy an above all life.
A new project by the University of Florence, in collaboration with CUAMM, aims to engage HIV-positive adolescents and young adults to provide up-to-date information to health authorities in the Shinyanga region and strengthen the health system and HIV services.
“I lived in Kharkiv. One month after the war outbreak, I had almost gotten used to the sound of bombs and missels exploding. After all, that was my hometown and I was not ready to flee”.
In Mozambique, important progress has been made in the prevention of non-communicable diseases, thanks to improved screening services offered in "cantinhos de rastreio".