Family medicine in SubSaharan Africa

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• Family medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Health care for all

• Every woman, man, youth and child has the human
  right to equal access to adequate health care and
  health-related services, regardless of sex, race,
  or other status
• Primary health care is essential health care,
  universally accessible to individuals and
  families in the community. It forms an integral
  part of the country's health system. It is the
  first level of contact of individuals, the family
  and community with the national health system,
  bringing health care as close as possible to
  where people live and work, and constitutes the
  first element of a continuing health care process

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Family Medicine

• Family Medicine is the discipline in the health
  care system providing continuous, comprehensive
  and coordinated primary health care for
  individuals, families and communities.
• Family Health care integrates physiologic,
  socio-economic, cultural and spiritual parameters
  and is not limited by age, gender and organ
  system or disease entity.

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Primafamed

• 2-year project (01-2008 12-2009)
• Coordinated from Ghent University Belgium
  department of family medicine and primary health
  care
• Financed by Edulink-ACP-EU
• An institutional network for the development of
  family medicine and primary health care in
  Sub-Saharan Africa

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Mission

• To reach equity in health care delivery by
  strengthening community-oriented primary health
  care
• To train African family physicians to provide
  primary health care of good quality, accessible
  and affordable for all

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Methods

• PRIMAFAMED
• gives support in capacity building, content
  development and monitoring of the postgraduate
  training in family medicine
• embraces the principle of South-South
  cooperation, encouraging the sharing of unique
  knowledge and wisdom between African institutions
• Organizes a yearly conference for all partners,
  stakeholders and other interested people to share
  ideas and show achievements

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Partners

• Université de Goma RDCongo
• Moi Univeristy - Kenya
• National University of Rwanda
• Aga Khan University Tanzania
• University of Lagos - Nigeria
• Makerere University- Uganda
• Mbarara University - Uganda
• Ahfad University for women - Sudan
• University of Gezira - Sudan
• University of Ghana - Ghana

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Associates

• ICHO (Inter-University Network for Family
  Medicine Belgium) www.icho.be
• IUCEA (Inter-University Council for East Africa)
  www.iucea.org
• FAMEC (Family Medicine Educational Consortium)
• WONCA (Global Family Doctor) www.globalfamilydo
  ctor.com
• GHETS (Global Health through Education, Training
  Service) www.ghets.org
• TUFH/ The Network (Towards Unity For Health)
  www.the-networktufh.org
• EFPC (EU Forum For Primary Care)
  www.euprimarycare.org
• DED (German Development Service) www.ded.de
• South-African universities
• Walter Sisulu , Durban, Stellenbosch , Cape
  Town, Limpopo , Pretoria , Witwatersrand ,
  Bloemfontein

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Steering committee

• Promotor Prof. Jan De Maeseneer, MD, PhD,TUFH,
  EFPC
• Coordinator Maaike Flinkenflögel, MD
• 2 partners
• Prof. Atai Omoruto, MD, Makarere University
  Uganda
• Prof. Olayinka Ayankogbe, MD, University of
  Lagos, Nigeria
• 2 associates
• Prof. Khaya Mfenyana, MBChB MMEd FRCP, WONCA
  Africa
• Prof. David Egilman, MD, MPH, GHETS

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Present situation

• First trimester of 2008
• Appointment of local coordinators
• Signing of agreements
• Evaluation of the present situation at all
  partner institutes
• Communication with associates and stakeholders
• First steps to organize the conference in
  November 2008

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2008 Conference

• "Improving the quality of Family Medicine
  Training in Africa
• Sharing experiences, ideas, knowledge and skills
  on training African Family Physicians
• For All Primafamed partners and associates and
  other interested people
• When 17 21 November 2008
• Where Kampala, Uganda

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Strengthening Primary Health Care

• With the 15by2015 campaign we ask donor
  organizations to allocate, by the year 2015, 15
  of their vertical funding towards sustainable
  comprehensive primary health care that is
  accessible and affordable in all regions of the
  world
• If you agree on this please sign the petition on
• www.15by2015.org

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Questions?

• A dream is just a dream
• An idea is just an idea
• A plan is just a plan
• Until you take the step to make it real