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MSF IPC Supervisors and AMS Focal Points gather for a hands-on AMR Learning workshop 

By Alicia

In the ongoing fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) supervisors and Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) focal points play a crucial role in ensuring best practices in MSF-supported healthcare facilities. To strengthen their skills, the MSF Academy for Healthcare implements the Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Programme, a mostly online training that equips participants with […]

Improving midwifery care at the hospital: a midwife’s journey in Sierra Leone

By Alicia

Sierra Leone is one of the countries with the highest number of women deaths in childbirth, which poses significant challenges to healthcare professionals. Sia Marian Sorboeh is a midwife working in MSF’s Mother and Child Hospital in Kenema, and participating in the MSF Academy for Healthcare’s Midwifery clinical care training programme. In Kenema, MSF carries […]

Building capacity in the operating theatre: graduation in Sierra Leone of 14 operating theatre nurses

By Alicia

Fourteen MSF operating theatre nurses in Kenema, Sierra Leone, have graduated from a specialised training programme organised by the MSF Academy for Healthcare. The Operating Theatre nursing care training programme is the sole certification training programme in the country specifically targeted to operating theatre nurses, which addresses a critical need in Sierra Leone’s healthcare services. […]

Empowering community health extension workers in Nigeria: the impact of the Outpatient Care training programme

By Alicia

Rabiu Salisu Adam is a community health extension worker who provides outpatient care consultations in the MSF-supported facility Tudun Fulani Primary Healthcare, in Kano, Nigeria. He has participated in the Outpatient Care training programme of the MSF Academy for Healthcare, a six to nine-month work-based training that aims at strengthening the competencies and skills of […]

Upskilling healthcare workers to save lives in South Sudan

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March 2023 By MSF’s field communication team in South Sudan Changkuoth Yoal is a nurse recently graduated from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Academy for Healthcare in Lankien, Jonglei state in South Sudan. In a region severely affected by intercommunal conflict and a fragile health system, Changkuoth is among the 88 learners who have successfully completed […]

“It’s a very beneficial training for all the participants, even when you have had healthcare education”

By Alicia

MALLE MAMA, Nurse Supervisor in Koutiala, Mali February 2023 Malle Mama is a Nurse Supervisor at the Pediatric Hospital in Koutiala, Mali. He has been working with MSF since 2011, in different departments of the paediatric hospital, such as nutrition, paediatrics, neonatology and emergency admission. Since March 2022, Malle has been participating in the Basic […]