Doctors with Africa CUAMM and UNICEF have launched a project in the municipalities of Ombadja and Cahama, in Angola’s Cunene Province, to tackle moderate and acute malnutrition in children – a situation exacerbated by last year’s drought.
“Our” Africa recently made an appearance in Baltimore, taking part in the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting, an international research gathering on pediatrics and neonatology, to share its findings on the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) method as a decisive factor for improving the health of premature newborns in low-resource settings. Doctors with Africa CUAMM [...]
Saturday we all gathered around Pope Francis, together turning the spotlight on Africa.
Magdalene Awor is one of the midwives who works in the Lui Hospital, South Sudan. She dedicates the International Day of Midwife with a letter to her colleagues all over the world to celebrate their special job. Dear Colleagues, Greetings from South Sudan! The celebration of this Day all over the world reminds us [...]
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