Join us as AfroPHC EC and President share country experiences in PHC, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in a webinar on ‘Countries PHC System Experience: Lessons from Uganda, Kenya & Ethiopia’ as part of our series on Primary Health Care: Strengthening PHC Systems in LMICs. This session will feature speakers from Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eBK9ie4m
Dear all,
I wish to invite you to the AfroPHC Research Mentorship Programme meeting coming up on Tuesday 4th July, 2023 at [4-6pm GMT, 5-7pm WAT, 6-8pm CAT/SAST and 7-9pm EAT.]
Lecture Title: Introduction to Research in PHC; Developing a Good Research Question.
Lecture Speaker: Dr Mercy Wanjala
Link will be sent to members via email. If you are not a member, join at http://www.afrophc.org/join-afrophc
Tobacco kills up to half of its users. a plant with leaves that have high levels of the addictive chemical nicotine. After harvesting, tobacco leaves are cured, aged, and processed. In various ways. the resulting products may be smoked (in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes), applied to the gums (as dipping and chewing tobacco), or inhaled (as snuff).
Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Keep the key to life in your hands, don’t give it to tobacco. Continued tobacco use corresponds to poorer addiction treatment outcomes, including a higher likelihood of relapse to substance use. The integration of tobacco-related services into addiction treatment can improve treatment outcomes, promote recovery, and reduce the well-established harms of ongoing tobacco use, including tobacco-related death and disease. Eliminate tobacco from your life before it kills you.
Webinar Title: No Tobacco: Addiction and Advocacy
Speaker: Miss Abena Otchere-Darko (BSC’ MGHIG’ CPMC’ MWAIMM’ PD. CIIA’ PD.CSM)
“I have taken inspiration from nature and feel one can achieve anything if one pursues it with diligence and perseverance and I have set my heart on attaining to do. This will equip me well in the art of assessing and cultivating human relationships, which is a necessity in any type of workplace and a discerning community as a whole, and having an opportunity to be part of this organization will be a value-added to my educational interests, involvement in a sorority and volunteer activities demonstrate attributes that make me a valuable employee in career practices. included in my list of talents leadership skills, reliability and work ethics in all roles and volunteer activities. Community involvement in volunteer programs such as community challenge and professional development programs in applied sciences and other resourced-based areas in education and early career practice, health, population surveys and census.”
OBJECTIVES:
Date: Thursday, 18th of May 2023
Time: 3 pm Central Africa Time (CAT)
Duration: 1 hour
CPD Points: 1
Register here: https://wcea.education/portfolio-item/no-tobacco-addiction-and-advocacy/
Join our next webinar, hosted & sponsored by the African Forum for Primary Health Care & WONCA Africa. The presentation is about the approach to ATF – Antiretroviral Treatment Failure. The webinar will be held in English.
Webinar Title: “Antiretroviral Treatment Failure”
Objectives:
1. Assessing Adherence
2. Facilitating Adherence
3. 2nd and 3rd Line Regimens
4. Resistance Testing
Speaker: Dr Melanie Collins – General practitioner at Good Life Clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa. Focused predominantly on HIV prevention, diagnosis, and management, as well as Mental Health.
Moderator: Prof Shabir Moosa
Date: Thursday, 3rd of November 2022 [Add to Calendar]
Time: 15:00 Central Africa Time (GMT+2 / CAT)
Duration: 1 hour
CPD Points: 1
Register here: https://wcea.education/portfolio-item/antiretroviral-treatment-failure/
Join our next webinar, hosted & sponsored by the African Forum for Primary Health Care & WONCA Africa.
Webinar Title: “Capacity development and team building strategies for organizational growth: a practice-based approach in the context of primary health care”
The Webinar will be held in English.
Please share the event with your Organization’s Members & reserve your spot in the WCEA App.
The African Forum for Primary Health Care (AfroPHC) will be convening a Final Consultation Workshop on 25th and 26th October 2022 in Johannesburg to conclude the extensive consultation process for the AfroPHC Policy Framework being developed. About 35 members of the AfroPHC Executive and Advisory Board are expected to participate, together with other key stakeholders and experts, as the first in-person meeting of AfroPHC.
In order to enhance the workshop there will be two public seminars/webinars 8-10pm South African time on 24th and 25th of October at the auditorium of Wits School of Public Health.
24th October
25th October
These will also be broadcast on Zoom. Check your local time here. Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fwMYXUdOR8y3c1YaAtKkqg. There will be French translation available.
She has spent the last 30 years researching the economics of health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Her major contributions are in the areas of health financing and the private health sector. She chaired the recent Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing Primary Health Care, and have authored key publications on how strategic purchasing can help to improve health system performance. Her work on the private sector has contributed to understanding of the opportunities and limitations of using the private sector to extend access to critical public health interventions and, more recently, to the challenges of regulating healthcare markets. She frequently advise national governments and international organisations on health system and financing issues. She is President-Elect of the International Health Economics Association.
Over the last decade, Oludare Bodunrin has been working on strategic initiatives to deliver quality health care to underserved populations in Nigeria. Fondly called ‘Dare, he currently serves as the Acting Director and Technical lead at the SPARC, a strategic purchasing initiative hosted by Amref Health Africa to broker support to countries as they design and implement reforms geared towards efficient and equitable use of financial resources for health. Before joining SPARC, he served as a senior program officer at the Results for Development (R4D) in Nigeria during which he led the design and implementation of Social Health Insurance Schemes, facilitated joint learning about sub-national healthcare policy makers and managed key program functions as country representative of R4D Nigeria. ‘Dare’s professional interest and experience includes, health insurance design and implementation, supply chain for healthcare commodities, primary healthcare systems strengthening, private sector engagement and Not-for-Profit Management. He strongly advocates for self-sufficiency, mutually beneficial partnership and home-grown evidence-based solutions for sustainable development in Africa
Prof Shabir Moosa is a family physician with an MBA and PhD. He works in public service clinics of Soweto and at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive experience in rural general practice and the development of family medicine and primary care services in both rural and urban district health services in South Africa and Africa. Shabir is involved in development and research around family medicine, community-oriented primary health care (COPC) and health management for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa. He is Member at Large in the Executive Committee of WONCA (World Organisation of Family Doctors), and Executive Coordinator of AfroPHC, the African Forum for Primary Health Care (PHC), bringing African PHC team leaders together to advocate for PHC and UHC
Join us at our next interactive AfroPHC Policy Workshop on “Bridging the Gap: Health Equity in PHC in Africa” 11am-2pm Ghana, 12pm-3pm Nigeria, 1-4 pm Central/Southern Africa and 2-5pm Kenya next Tuesday 18th October. Check your local time here. Link below
Join Zoom Meeting | Meeting ID: 850 2305 9229 | Passcode: 241734
Our panel, moderated by Ms. Rawia Kamal, is made up of the following expert: Morrish Humphrey Ojok, Kim Yu and Viviana Martinez-Bianchi.
After the panel discussion of 1 hour, we will break up into small groups with specific facilitators / language groups for 45 minutes to discuss the following question/s.
We will close the meeting with feedback and summarise key issues. We want to build discussions into the draft AfroPHC Policy Document “Building the PHC Team for UHC in Africa”. The panel and feedback will have French translations. See more details, including speaker’s bios below.
Morrish Humphrey Ojok Country Manager Amref Health Africa in South Sudan. Morrish Humphrey Ojok serves as the Country Manager of Amref Health Africa in South Sudan. Morrish is an experienced leader in the field of global public health, health in emergencies and sexual and reproductive health and international development. He has extensive experience in driving complex programme deployment, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, and management in multiple countries. Morrish has over 17 years’ experience developing and delivering organizational strategies, with extensive experience of complex management and governance issues. He strongly believes that its through Primary Health Care that Universal Health Coverage can become a reality in Africa. He also believes that through partnership and collaboration with all stakeholders at all levels from community level, Government, private sector and with support from the broader international community and donors, innovative, culturally sensitive, and appropriate solutions to Africa’s health challenges can be found and fostered.
Dr. Kim Yu: Board certified in family medicine, Dr. Kim Yu is National Director for Clinical and Community Partnerships for Aledade, based in Orange County, California. Dr. Yu speaks internationally and trains family physicians, residents and medical students on health equity, population health, value-based care, health IT, leadership, advocacy, disaster relief, social media, and physician wellness. Dr. Yu currently serves as President of the Orange County Chapter of the California Academy of Family Physicians; She also chairs WONCA’s Special Interest Group in Health Equity and is AAFP delegate to the AMA. She is past president of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Viviana Martinez- Bianchi: Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is an associate professor in Duke’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and named North Carolina’s 2021 Family Physician of the Year by the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP). The honor is the most prestigious award from the NCAFP, the state’s largest specialty medical association, comprised of more than 4,300 members. Dr. Martinez-Bianchi, a family physician committed to health equity in her community and around the world, serves as Director of Health Equity for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. She is a co-founder of the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, better known as LATIN-19. The group was established in March of 2020 to address inequities in the COVID-19 pandemic response, the health system in general and communities in Central North Carolina. Prior to becoming Director of Health Equity, Dr. Martinez-Bianchi served as Program Director for the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program.
The International Institute for Primary Health Care-Ethiopia, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is hosting a webinar on ‘Implementation research for PHC’ as the next installment in our series on Strengthening PHC Systems in LMICs. Professor Getnet Mitike of IPHC-E will moderate this session, with speakers joining us from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and Pathfinder International…more
”Primary Health Care – the heart of every health system”, a 10-part seminar series runs from October 2022 to July 2023 providing an overview of the key features and functions of PHC, the potential of PHC in all health systems and its role in achieving universal health coverage.
The first session will be:
Panel Discussion: Primary Health Care, the heart of every health system?
12.45 – 13.45, Wed 5 Oct 2022
Introduction: Liam Smeeth (LSHTM)
Panellists: Kara Hanson (LSHTM), Shannon Barkley (WHO), Alex Mold (LSHTM), Shabir Moosa (Wits University)
Chairs:
Luke Allen (LSHTM) & Luisa Pettigrew (LSHTM)
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Join our next webinar, hosted & sponsored by the African Forum for Primary Health Care & WONCA Africa.
“Sickle Cell Anaemia: Disease Complications and Therapeutic Interventions”
The Webinar will be held in English with live translation into French.
Please share the event with your Organization’s Members &
Reserve your spot in the WCEA App.
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Join our next webinar, hosted & sponsored by the African Forum for Primary Health Care & WONCA Africa.
“Cervical cancer; The crucial role of primary health care providers”
The Webinar will be held in English with live translation into French.
Please share the event with your Organization’s Members & reserve your spot in the WCEA App.
Dear colleagues,
With apologies for cross-posting, sharing this invitation for a consultation on the WHO Foundation’s strategy document for those of you who might be interested. The attached invitation notes that the draft strategy will be shared with registered participants ahead of the virtual consultation.
If you are interested, please register by August 19 for one of the two sessions:
● Option #1// Tuesday, August 30: 17:00 Central European Time i.e. 08.00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) / 11.00 Eastern Time (ET) / 16.00 West Africa Time (WAT)/ 18.00 East Africa Time (EAT) / 20:30 India Standard Time (IST) / 23.00 Singapore Standard Time (SST)
Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscO6oqjorHddt-gT4UCoV7_s_4pKdjyT7
● Option #2// Thursday, September 1: 09:00 Central European Time (CET) i.e. 00.00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) / 03.00 Eastern Time (ET) / 08.00 West Africa Time (WAT)/ 10.00 East Africa Time (EAT) / 12:30 India Standard Time (IST) / 15:00 Singapore Standard Time (SST)
Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu-qpj0uEtaN-zYQ80IlUAdL-Iq9Mb7d
Pandemic Action Network, the Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI), the Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organisations (EANNASO), and WACI Health invite you to an official Civil Society Organization (CSO) consultation for the design phase of the new Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (PPR).
Two dates and times have been set to engage partners from multiple geographies and in multiple languages (English, French, and Spanish interpretation will be provided for each session). The focus of these first two consultations will be the same, so please choose the date and time that works best for you
August 16
2pm-3:30pm WIB (Jakarta) / 10am-11:30am EAT (Nairobi) / 8am-9:30am BST (London)
August 17
4pm-5:30pm BST (London) / 11am-12:30pm ET (New York) / 10am-11:30am CDT (Mexico City)
Register here
Join us at our next interactive AfroPHC Policy Workshop on “Workers Health in African PHC” 11am-2pm Ghana, 12pm-3pm Nigeria, 1-4 pm Central/Southern Africa and 2-5pm Kenya next Tuesday 16th August. Check your local time here.
Our panel, moderated by Dr Jamie Colloty, is made up of the following expert.
· Dr. Dorothy Ngajilo, Occupational Medicine Specialist, World Health Organization (WHO) Global Occupational and Workplace Health Programme
After the panel discussion of 1 hour, we will break up into small groups with specific facilitators / language groups for 45 minutes to discuss the following question/s.
What are some of the positive and negative experiences that have affected yourhealth and safety as a healthcare worker?
What do you understand by the term burnout and what are some of the factors thatlead to burnout among primary health care workers in Africa?
What policies and strategies would you recommend protecting the health and safetyof primary health care workers in Africa?
We will close the meeting with feedback and summarise key issues. We want to build discussions into the draft AfroPHC Policy Document “Building the PHC Team for UHC in Africa”. The panel and feedback will have French translations. See more details, including speaker’s bios here.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85023059229?pwd=aWttVUh5ZTVFdHhRbElKSTBJVjVrZz09
Meeting ID: 850 2305 9229 | Passcode: 241734
Join AfroPHC is its next interactive AfroPHC Policy Workshop on “Health and Wellness of Primary Health Care Workers in Africa” 11am-2 pm GMT on Tuesday 16th August. Check your local time here.
Aim: To explore the factors that influence the health and well-being of primary health care workers in Africa and effective strategies to improve workers ‘health.
Objectives:
Our panel, moderated by Dr Jamie Colloty, is made of the following expert on Workers Health. See their bios below
After the panel discussion of 1 hour we will break up into small groups with specific facilitators / language groups for 45 minutes to discuss some question/s.
We will close the meeting with feedback and summarise key issues. We want to build discussions into the draft AfroPHC Policy Document “Building the PHC Team for UHC in Africa”. The panel and feedback will have French translations.
Please register your interest for the Policy Workshops on the AfroPHC policy workshops page. We will provide you the zoom meeting details a few days before the meeting.
Dr. Dorothy Ngajilo is an Occupational Medicine Specialist working with the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Occupational and Workplace Health Programme. She is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of occupational health and safety programmes for health workers in different countries, in collaboration with other internal technical programmes and outside partners. Prior to joining WHO, Dr. Ngajilo worked in the Ministry of Health of her native country, Tanzania, as an Occupational Medicine Physician. She is also a medical advisor to the Tanzanian Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) and the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OSHA), providing technical support on all matters related to occupational health and safety. Dr. Ngajilo is a medical doctor with Occupational Medicine specialty training from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is also a Fellow of the College of Public Health Medicine (Occupational Medicine) of South Africa.
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Join our next webinar, hosted & sponsored by the African Forum for Primary Health Care & WONCA Africa.
“Management of Epilepsy in Primary Health Care”
The Webinar will be held in English.
Please share the event with your Organization’s Members &
reserve your spot in the WCEA App…more
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from the WHO Patient Safety Flagship in Geneva.
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted nearly all countries’ health systems and diminished their capability to provide safe health care, specifically due to errors, harm and delays in diagnosis, treatment and care management. In preparation for the forthcoming fifth Global Ministerial Summits on Patient Safety, scheduled to be held on 23-24 February 2023 in Montreux, Switzerland as the host country, has been working with WHO to better understand the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for patient safety.
As part of this ongoing initiative, WHO Patient Safety Flagship is planning to launch the publication “Implication of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Patient Safety: A Rapid Review”, in a virtual event on Tuesday, 09 August 2022, 14:00-15:30 (CEST).
The objectives of this event are to:
– provide an overview of implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for patients, health workers, and the general public
– highlight the importance of managing risks and addressing avoidable harm in a pandemic situation
– discuss implications of the pandemic for patient safety within the broader context of preparedness, response and recovery
– lay the foundation for follow-up work around generating more robust evidence and supporting countries in their efforts to build resilient and safer health care systems.
We hope that you join us for this event on Tuesday, 09 August 2022 at 14:00-15:30 CEST.
Please register at the link. https://echo.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yVOgkzyvSaCzPXW1r6CY5A, also included in the attached flyer [HIFA does not carry attachments].
Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English, French and Spanish.
Thanks and best regards,
Dr Neelam DHINGRA
Unit Head
WHO Patient Safety Flagship/
Join AfroPHC is its next interactive AfroPHC Policy Workshop on “Labs/POCT in African PHC” 11am-2 pm GMT on Tuesday 21st June. Check your local time here.
Our panel, moderated by Dr Mercy Wanjala, is made of the following POCT experts. Dr Rajiv Erasmus and Dr Rogier Hopstaken.
After the panel discussion of 1 hour we will break up into small groups with specific facilitators / language groups for 45 minutes to discuss some question/s.
We will close the meeting with feedback and summarise key issues. We want to build discussions into the draft AfroPHC Policy Document “Building the PHC Team for UHC in Africa”. The panel and feedback will have French translations.
Please register your interest for the Policy Workshops on the AfroPHC policy page. We will provide you the zoom meeting details a few days before the meeting.
See recording of workshop and presentations below
Dear colleagues
The African Forum for Primary Health Care (AfroPHC) is the voice of the PC/PHC team and its supporters, sharing and supporting each other in advocating for PHC. We want you to join us. We are having a series of webinars in a work up to the AfroPHC Conference 19-21 June 2020. Register for it!
Please register here for our second webinar on Tues 17th March 2020 at 6pm Ghana, 7pm Nigeria, 8pm SA, 9pm Kenya.
The webinar will include luminaries from family medicine talking about family doctors, associate clinicians and African PHC.
They will share a bit of background on organisations in the field, their efforts in the space of Primary Health Care in Africa as well as their views on the AfroPHC process.
Please forward this to your friends and colleagues.
rgds, AfroPHC Core Team