In our more than 65-year history, we’ve sent 1,569 people to Africa, worked in 41 countries, and Partnered on 163 projects in 217 hospitals. These numbers tell the story of Doctors with Africa CUAMM. Today, our organization is proud to have some 180 aid-workers at work in 7 Sub-Saharan African countries. Saturday we will all gather around Pope Francis, together turning the spotlight on Africa.
22 April: Celebrating women’s – and girls’ – health! For the first time ever, Italy will be celebrating “Women’s Health Day” this year in order to focus the nation’s attention on the issue of women’s health care and prevention and to underscore the fundamental role that women play both in their own families and the [...]
Committed to doing our part to make food a right for everyone, Doctors with Africa CUAMM has joined an international network working to end malnutrition.
CUAMM at the ISANH World Congress to present our ongoing study on how to prevent Vitamin A deficiency in children using available local foodstuffs.
This 13 and 14 April in London Doctors with Africa CUAMM presented a set of good practices, the outcome of a pilot project we recently wound up in Tanzania. CUAMM was the only Italian NGO selected by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the international NGO World Vision to partner on the project, which used technologies to test a participatory approach in the monitoring of health care service quality.
World TB Day, March 24, 2016, Matany Hospital, Karamoja (Uganda) - Patients, doctors and nurses tell their personal fight against tuberculosis
On occasion of World TB Day on 24 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries and partners to “unite to end tuberculosis”. Doctors with Africa Cuamm gladly accepts the challenge, and will continue to be among those working in the front line to end tuberculosis in Africa by 2030.
Eighty percent of deaths from diabetes take place in mid- to lower-income countries. These include Angola and Mozambique, where Doctors with Africa CUAMM is working hard to meet emerging health care needs.
Ivan Alejandro Pulido Tarquino advises Doctors with Africa CUAMM on TB control. He wrote this piece to tell us how CUAMM is tackling TB in Angola.
On 23rd March the signature of the first Memorandum of understanding between the two organization