This year the major theme is Making Hospitals Safer in Emergencies, including natural disasters and war zones.
The potential of mobile phones to become the dominant media for health communication has again been highlighted.
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Ever wondered how we can make two way learning a reality? What can health professionals working in resource rich countries, like the UK, learn from their Malawian counterparts. Ron Neville and Jemma Neville highlight some aspects of healthcare in Malawi worthy of study.
Read the full article published in Human Resources in Health.
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Clinical Officers working in clinics throughout Malawi are keen to improve their skills and keep up with clinical developments. Mr Francis Phiri is currently studying with The Regional Dermatology Training Centre - the only training institution for dermatology in Africa. He plans to graduate as a Dermato-veneriology officer after 2 years. Exams include General Dermatology, Pharmacology, STIs, Leprosy, Teaching & Learning and PHC.
It is vitally important for Malawian clinical officers to be able to attend such courses and develop their skill base and expertise, within Malawi. Funding is a perenial problem and clinical officers are constantly looking for sponsorship opportunities.
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Have you seen a challenging case recently? Do you want to share your experience or expertise with colleagues? Doctors, medical students, clinical officers, nurses and midwives can al learn from each other if we ask each other questions and share answers. How do we treat acute malaria in a resource poor setting? How do we persuade ‘at risk’ young adults to have their HIV status checked?
Any takers? Post a question and let’s see if we can help each other answer it……..
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The Twinning of Malawi Clinics and Scottish General Practices Team have had discussions with the University of St Andrews (St A) about closer working relationships. St A is the lead Scottish academic instituition for collaboration to develop medical and clinical officer training in Malawi. St A is supporting the University of Malawi College of Medicine (MCM) in curriculum design. St A has recently secured funding from the Scottish Government to develop continued Professional Development Courses (CPD) for Clinical Officers in Malawi. We hope clinical officers working in Malawi clinics will be able to benefit from this, and we hope project teams can work together.
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A new United Nations Foundation report into the potential and opportunities for using mobile phones to support access to health care has been published. See what you think of the SMS quiz on HIV to encourage more Voluntary Testing and Counselling (VCT).
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Dear colleagues,
I am a part of a group of Public Health graduate students from the University of California, Los Angeles learning about health program planning. We are currently working on a project that aims to reduce the prevalence of teen pregnancy in Malawi. In our research, we came across your clinic and were hoping to establish a dialogue, since we lack first hand experience with the country. While we are not planning to actually implement our program at this time, we are very interested in learning more about the state of reproductive healthcare, especially for teens in Malawi. We would be so grateful to gain some firsthand knowledge to supplement the studies and journal articles we are reading about. Specifically, what are the type of youth services currently offered? What, do you feel, is lacking in reproductive health services directed toward youth? What is the attitudes among the teens about seeking out reproductive health counseling? Thank you so much to taking the time to answer these questions.
Sincerely, Marisa Cohen Community Health Sciences University of California at Los Angeles mlcohen@ucla.edu
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Have a look at some of the top blogs internationally. Our dialogue between health care professionals in Malawi (‘south south’) and with Scotland (‘north south’) is winning praise.
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Check out this link explaining how a Ugandan Housewife solved the problem of expensive and unreliable mobile phone chargers. Can we learn lessons from this in supporting low cost long term sustainable use of technology in Malawi?
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Kate Christen & Sylvester Chawala
Kate is a fifth year student at the University of Dundee in Scotland. She came with her fellow students to Malawi in November 2008 on elective. Since then, she has been at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, central part of Malawi and Malawi’s Capital City.
She says she has come to the south of Malawi to visit one of the health centre in the Twinning Project. She will be here in Zomba for a week to visit Matawale Health Centre which is twinned to Whitefriars General Practice in Dundee, Scotland. Apart from paying a visit to the health centre, Kate wants to experience a rural health care setting and compare this with working at Kamuzu Central Hospital in the Capital. She would also like to sample the common presenting of complaints in a rural setting in Malawi.
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