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

November 21, 2023

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 […]

“The course enabled me to learn how to act upstream to tackle antimicrobial resistance”

June 15, 2023

By Al1c1aG

NADINE NEEMA MITUTSO, Medical Activities Manager of MSF in Masisi, DRC June 2023 Nadine Neema Mitutso is the Medical Activities Manager of MSF in Masisi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and she is a recent graduate of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Learning Initiative. The initiative aims to improve the management of AMR in MSF-supported facilities by […]

“You may be in college for years, but you may not get some of the skills the way we have gotten them in the Academy“

May 1, 2023

By Al1c1aG

May 2023 JIMMY LOKU OLIMPIA, Nurse in Malakal, South Sudan Jimmy recently graduated from the Basic Clinical Nursing Care learning programme of the MSF Academy for Healthcare, which aims at strengthening the skills and competencies of the staff providing nursing care in participating hospitals. He is a nurse in the MSF hospital in Malakal, South […]

Upskilling healthcare workers to save lives in South Sudan

April 6, 2023

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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 […]

“I’m ready to serve my community and to deliver this knowledge to my junior staff; that will be my pride”

March 24, 2023

By Al1c1aG

March 2023 TUT RIAM, MSF Academy for Healthcare clinical mentor in South Sudan Tut was born in Lankien, a remote area of South Sudan, where an MSF hospital is the only functioning secondary healthcare facility in the region. When he was 13 years old, he contracted kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, one of the […]

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

February 25, 2023

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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 […]

“The training allowed us to see a certain decline in the prescription of antibiotics at the hospital”

February 25, 2023

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SOUMAILA TRAORÉ, Doctor in Koutiala, Mali February 2023 Soumaila Traoré works in an MSF’s medico-nutritional project in Mali, based in Koutiala. He has been working with MSF since 2013 through different health services, such as Intensive Care, Paediatrics, Neonatology and the Nutrition service. He participates in the Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Program of the MSF Academy […]

“I became a learning companion to transfer the knowledge that I have and help my colleagues”

February 11, 2023

By Al1c1aG

February 2023 ADRILLI ANNA ROBERT, Midwife in Lankien, South Sudan Anna Robert is a midwife in the maternity ward of a hospital in Lankien, South Sudan. She has been working for MSF since 2021, and she has participated in the Nursing and Midwifery initiative of the MSF Academy for Healthcare, which aims to strengthen the […]

South Sudan: Graduation day at MSF’s ‘college within a hospital’

December 25, 2022

By Al1c1aG

December 2022 Wilson Thiongo MSF Academy Pedagogical Manager in South Sudan Wilson Thiongo shares his experience of teaching nurses with the MSF Academy for Healthcare, as well as some heartwarming photos of a graduation day in remote South Sudan. Being passionate about my career as a nurse and wanting to use my nursing skills for […]

Alphonso Pawil Aguek, midwife supervisor in Agok, South Sudan, on the results of the BCNC implementation

February 6, 2022

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February 2022 Alphonso Pawil Aguek, midwife supervisor in Agok, South Sudan, shares his views on the changes introduced in the hospital where he works after the implementation of the Basic Clinical Nursing care programme of the MSF Academy.

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