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7 January 2021

Between elections and a pandemic a suspended Christmas in Bangui

2021-01-05T16:49:50+01:007 January 2021|

This past Christmas was a suspended Christmas. Due to the limitations on travel in Italy and between the various countries, many found themselves spending this day away from loved ones and very often stuck in the city where they live and work. But what is it like to spend Christmas in Africa at this time [...]

5 January 2021

A new-born cry to greet 2021

2021-01-05T14:35:33+01:005 January 2021|

On December 31st at 11 pm in Chiulo, Angola, Giorgio Pellis's phone rings: there is an obstetric emergency and Alice, the Angolan doctor who works in the hospital, asks for support in managing the birth beacuse the child struggles to be born.

23 December 2020

CARING FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE IN LA SPEZIA

2020-12-23T15:55:53+01:0023 December 2020|

The commitment of Doctors with Africa Cuamm thanks to the U.S. Government. Today Pierluigi Peracchini, mayor of La Spezia, and the bishop of the city mgr. Luigi Ernesto Palletti visited the spaces of “Gruppo di Volontariato Vincenziano San Giovanni Bosco”, where Doctors with Africa CUAMM renewed the showers and people in need can find support during the Covid-19 epidemic. Since July 2020, 370 homeless people have had access to hygiene services and more than 24,800 meals and 2,600 food kits were distributed.

15 December 2020

Prevention and control for women in Mozambique

2020-12-15T10:19:24+01:0015 December 2020|

Doctors with Africa Cuamm is committed to increase the availability and to improve the quality of services of diagnosis and tratement for uterine and breast cancer in three regions of the country.

1 December 2020

December 1: World AIDS Day In Africa young women are the most at risk

2020-12-01T10:38:16+01:001 December 2020|

On World AIDS Day Doctors with Africa CUAMM is making an appeal not to overlook the indirect effects of Covid-19 and remember the millions of people whose lives, in Africa as in the rest of the world, are still at risk from another virus and another epidemic that continues to kill without making news.

30 November 2020

Among tradition and change being born in Capo Delgado

2020-11-30T16:59:20+01:0030 November 2020|

“The first 1,000 days” project deals with future mothers and their children, from pregnancy to the first 2 years of life, in the rural districts of Balama and Montepuez, in the Province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. and children in Cabo Delgado.

26 November 2020

A living memory

2020-11-26T14:23:23+01:0026 November 2020|

Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of our beloved Don Luigi Mazzucato, historical director of Doctors with Africa CUAMM. His memory always remains deeply alive in those who have had the gift of knowing him, in Italy and in Africa.

26 November 2020

South Sudan resisting floods

2020-11-27T10:56:26+01:0026 November 2020|

In the last months, displaced people fleeing the water have doubled in Awerial County, reaching a peak of 70,000 people. Requests for care are increasing, but people are not deterred by the floods. And where the off-road vehicles do not arrive, it is possible to wade, carrying the drugs on the head.

25 November 2020

Shed light on the “shadow pandemic”

2020-11-25T15:14:19+01:0025 November 2020|

Covid-19 has caused an alarming increase in violence against women worldwide, especially in the most fragile contexts where Doctors with Africa CUAMM operates.