Angola Good news for TB programmes
In Sub-Saharan Africa, TB programmes rarely include NCD screening, but a project in Angola is proving it can be done with great success.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, TB programmes rarely include NCD screening, but a project in Angola is proving it can be done with great success.
Training has always been an essential part of CUAMM’s activities, as can be inferred from the words of Professor Dal Lago.
A delegation of Italian and Norwegian research workers recently visited Beira Central Hospital and sites where Doctors with Africa CUAMM is working.
CUAMM attended the Second National Paediatric Congress of Mozambique to follow the proceedings at close hand and observe the development of best practice for protecting children’s health.
October saw the launch of a new project in Angola to address the problem of malnutrition. This project considers nutrition in a community context, with particular emphasis on mothers and children aged under five.
October was a big month for our work on nutrition, full of both technical meetings and awareness raising events to present what CUAMM is doing to fight malnutrition.
The winner of the Aspen Award 2016 was a study on Ebola in a collaboration between the Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Doctors with Africa CUAMM.
A Rotary Club project that provided delivery room equipment to the Chiulo Hospital and training to local health workers wrapped up at the end of last month. Here’s a first-hand account by Giovanni Del Frate of his August 2016 visit to the hospital with other members of Rotary Club Udine Patriarcato.
Today – Nyerere Day – we are pleased to join Tanzania in its commemoration of Julius Nyerere, “Father of the Nation”.