By the end of the year 1.200.000 refugees on a population of 2.700.000 people: in this context, CUAMM is working to strenghten the health system, fight malnutrition and give assistance to mothers and children. For the right to health for everyone, refugees and non-refugees.
Investing in early childhood means shaping adults who can contribute to their community's welfare. This is one of the reasons Doctors with Africa CUAMM works to fight chronic and acute malnutrition in Tanzania.
Last Friday in Luanda, Angola, CUAMM hosted the first workshop related to a program for diabetes and hypertension screening in patients with tuberculosis. This is a new challenge in our ongoing battle against chronic diseases, a topic that is still little known in Africa.
In Tanzania 34.4% of children under 5 years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition (stunting) and SAM (severe acute malnutrition) hits 4.5% of the population.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM and World Diabetes Foundation on the field in Mozambique to assist the population affected by or at risk of Diabetes and Hypertension.
Birth Cushions, woolen caps, Baby Kits: “poor” and cheap innovations used by Doctors with Africa CUAMM to improve our services in Africa.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM is one of the 53 NGOs reaching the final at “Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development”, a yearly event where NGOs and international charities can present their innovative and sustainable approaches to improve mother-and-child health globally.
On March 23 at the UN headquarter in New York, during the 61st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, a conference will be held organized by Doctors with Africa CUAMM in partnership with Italy and Canada’s permanent missions to the United Nations. Among the events is a special talk by Zainab Hawa Bangura, representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, TB programmes rarely include NCD screening, but a project in Angola is proving it can be done with great success.
