Browse by tag "africa"
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Act4Africa
Act4Africa organises trips to Uganda and Tanzania, for those wishing to do their medical elective or teaching placement in Africa.
Act4Africa is a health and education charity aiming to promote gender justice for women and girls, equip them with life skills to be free from poverty, and combat HIV using Theatre for Development techniques.
Set up in 2000 by husband and wife team Martin and Kathy Smedley, Act4Africa has a small UK support team based in Manchester and works in partnership with Act4Africa NGO Partners in Uganda, Tanzania and community based organisation, Act4Africa, in Malawi.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | Uganda Tanzania charity medical elective elective placement africa |
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AMECA
The AMECA Medical Elective Bursary Awards:
It is our belief that students who have the opportunity to undertake medical electives in Third World countries, emerge as better doctors and nurses with improved clinical skills. The range and scope of clinical practice undertaken on such electives is normally way beyond anything they might hope to experience in the UK, resulting in improved patient communication, diagnostics and overall confidence.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa Elective Placemetn Funding Bursary |
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Dream Big Ghana
Dream Big Ghana work to enable healthcare students to gain insight into the health care experiences of people living in a rural setting in Ghana. You will stay at the beautiful ‘Africa Home Lodge,’ Meet Me There, Ghana. You will get a chance to meet local people and feel part of the community.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa Ghana volunteer elective placement medical student midwifery nursing nurse doctor midwife |
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Elective Abroad
Elective Abroad is a leading organizer of experiential travel in Africa. We go extra miles to provide you with an end-to-end service Medical Internships, Work experience, Teaching & Volunteer experience, educational exchanges as well as, expedition trips to Africa.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa elective placement Tanzania Uganda Kenya malawi Ghana internship |
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Elective Africa
Founded in 2000, Elective Africa is a leading organizer of medical volunteering, educational, gap, and expedition trips to Africa.
For over 13 years, we have been working with communities and healthcare institutions in our program destinations to provide our program participants with a unique opportunity for medical elective and clinicical rotations, gap breaks and volunteering trips that meet four key hurdles:
- Offer a rich, rare and insightful hands-on experience especially for those in their clinical years
- Helping under-served communities and people
- Facilitate cultural exchange and appreciation of host country and community
- Provide some escape time and space for reflection, inspiration and fun!
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa elective placement volunteer Kenya Tanzania Uganda malawi |
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IFRE Volunteer Abroad
IFRE is a nonprofit organization based in Dallas, Texas, USA. We founded IFRE’s volunteer abroad program in 2005 after realizing the need for safe and affordable volunteer abroad programs. So far, nearly 10,000 volunteers have participated in our meaningful volunteer programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. IFRE is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has multiple offices with 100+ experienced field employees throughout the 18 developing countries we support in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | volunteer elective placement latin america asia africa south america |
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My Sister My Self - Brigid McConville and the White Ribbon Alliance UK
This film collects the testimony of women and midwives in Africa and South East Asia on the joys and tragedies of childbirth and pregnancy. By sharing the stories of women who have lost their lives giving birth, and of women whose lives have been saved thanks to receiving appropriate care, this film shows how appropriate care can make a critical difference for women.
Visit www.whiteribbonalliance.org for more information about the White Ribbon Alliance’s work to promote safe motherhood.
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| Subject | Gender and health Maternal health |
| Tags | pregnancy video Maternal mortality africa south east asia safe motherhood international women's health programme birth child birth |
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Operation Orphan
Releasing medical skill into the developing world is a great way to raise the standard of healthcare for many vulnerable children. Operation Orphan is able to facilitate this by offering Medical placements for those wanting to complete their elective overseas and for qualified medical practitioners ready for an adventure.
Placements vary from 2 weeks to 2 months
Opportunities are available for medical staff to work in a wide variety of hospitals and communities in both Uganda and Ghana.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | elective placement medical elective Uganda Ghana africa |
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Plan My Gap Year
Plan My Gap Year was established by Gad and Philip, who have both have a passion for travelling and volunteering around the world. Since our launch in 2011, PMGY has become an award-winning organisation with four members of staff in the UK and an extended network of local teams placed across the world.
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| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | gap year volunteering elective placement africa south america latin america asia |
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Shortage of healthcare workers in developing countries - Africa
The already inadequate health systems of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, have been badly damaged by the migration of their health professionals.
It may well be asked why special measures should be necessary to influence the migration of health professionals rather than engineers or football players or any other category. The answer must surely be that no other category of worker is so essential to the well-being of the population of every nation.
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| Author | Saraladevi Naicker, FRCP, PhD; Jacob Plange-Rhule, FWACP, PhD; Roger C. Tutt, BA; John B. Eastwood, MD, FRCP |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Migration of health professionals |
| Tags | africa |
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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases is a major global player in infectious disease intelligence.
The NICD is a resource of knowledge and expertise in regionally relevant communicable diseases to the South African Government, to SADC countries and the African continent. The NICD assists in the planning of policies and programmes and supports appropriate responses to communicable disease problems and issues.
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| Subject | Communicable diseases |
| Tags | africa |
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Trends in aging by world region
Graph (bar) and notes showing percentage of population age 65 and over for 1980, 2010 and 2040 across Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, 'More Developed Regions' and total global population.
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| Author | Population Reference Bureau (US) |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Population growth |
| Tags | africa ageing caribbean latin america demography asia |
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Why rich countries should care about the world's least healthy people
A four-page introduction to the medical (largely communicable disease focused) and ethical arguments for investment in global health by nations and individual health care workers.
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| Author | Gostin, LO |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Communicable diseases Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | investment disease africa health inequality GDP |
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Work the World
Work the World organises safe, structured healthcare placements in Africa, Asia and South America. They provide elective placements and projects overseas for student doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, radiographers and physiotherapists.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | africa asia south america elective placement doctors nurses midwives dentists pharmacists radiographers physiotherapists |
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World Service Enquiry
World Service Enquiry provides information and career advice to people who want to volunteer or work in international development.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Planning a clinical placement overseas |
| Tags | elective placement work volunteer advice africa asia |
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