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Welcome to Africa Partners Medical |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 March 2007 )
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Health care needs in Africa are staggering and medical care is often sub-standard. The prevalence of HIV and other infectious and preventable diseases takes its toll in the lives of thousands each year, many of whom are family wage earners in the most productive years of their lives. Most West African nations currently have no formal mechanism to keep medical personnel in academic and private settings current with new information.
These realities compel us as medical professionals, humanitarians and global citizens to empower African medical personnel to improve the health care of their people. Providing quality health care will help prevent needless death.
“We could go and treat a few people, but the impact of continuing medical education to empower local physicians to care for their own people provides the opportunity to improve the standard of care to large numbers of people.” — Bart Clarke, M.D.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 January 2007 )
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Comprehensive updates in clinical medicine through didactic teaching on a broad range of the most preventable and prevalent diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. Practical training in medical procedures for health care personnel through workshops on such topics as basic and advanced life support, medical procedures in pediatrics, obstetrics, endoscopy, abdominal and obstetric ultrasounds, and breast and cervical cancer screening.
Education in medical ethics and professionalism.
Donated medical equipment and supplies. Past gifts have included endoscopy equipment, abdominal ultrasound machines, slit lamps, X-ray machines, EKG equipment, and more. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 January 2007 )
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