Starting on August 1, we'll be able to count on the support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation to help the youth of Beira in the fight against AIDS. Our focus will be on raising awareness and peer education to encourage testing and combat the fear and stigma associated with HIV.
Tanzania has a very high rate of HIV/AIDS, 5% according to WHO estimates. Doctors with Africa Cuamm has been fighting against the disease here for over thirty years. Most recently we developed a pilot project focused on the "Test and Treat" model, adhering to new international guidelines.
Doctors with Africa Cuamm took part in the Congress of the Angolan Society of Diabetology. Attending were Doctors Eric Lonla, Joseph Nsuka and Sonia Ezaquiela, who are working on a project to improve diabetes and hypertension diagnoses in tuberculosis patients (TB).
After last week's clashes, a ceasefire has been called in Juba, and, for the first time, CUAMM's staff left the compound where they had been "hibernating" for several days. Valerio Granello describes the air of apparent calm, though the entire country is still wracked with tensions.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM joins other Italian and international institutions to demand a cease fire as soon as possible. CUAMM is keeping services active for the people of south Sudan in seven counties and three hospitals, where we work with 17 Italians, 39 workers of different African nationalities, and about 650 South Sudanese people.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM joins other Italian and international institutions to demand a cease fire as soon as possible. CUAMM is keeping services active for the people of south Sudan in seven counties and three hospitals, where we work with 17 Italians, 39 workers of different African nationalities, and about 650 South Sudanese people.
On 27 June 2016 Doctors with Africa CUAMM took part in a conference in Rome organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Global Fund. Its focus: the Global Fund’s contribution to global health within the framework of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
This year the annual commemorative event will focus on “Conflict and Crisis in Africa: Protecting all Children’s Rights”. Doctors with Africa CUAMM refuses to remain indifferent in the face of the pain and suffering of so many children everywhere.
Over the last several months, CUAMM has screened 3,447 women living in the most isolated areas of Tanzania.
In Ethiopia inequality often has a great deal to do with where one lives, alongside other factors; people living in urban centers, in fact, generally have much better access to health care services and treatment than those living far from them. Just one example: in 2015, 88% of babies born in the urban areas of [...]