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In Burkina Faso, the MSF Academy implemented the Maternity Clinical Care training programme in Bobo-Dioulasso.
The learning activities started in April 2024, with over 60 enrolled midwives, most of whom working for the Ministry of Health. This group also included 12 MSF staff from other countries in Sahel who were on detachment in Bobo-Dioulasso for the duration of the training.
The Maternity Clinical Care training programme was implemented in the newly constructed maternity ward at the hospital supported by MSF. This was the first implementation of the programme in French for the MSF Academy.
For this, the MSF Academy collaborated with other learning initiatives present in Bobo, especially with the MSF Field Simulation project, to implement training activities that incorporate simulations and offer the best possible learning experience to learners. We were also in contact with the other training initiatives involved in this project, such as MSF’s Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and Zero Separation, to ensure the best possible coherence between the different staff capacity-building programmes.
In 2025, 65 participants successfully completed the training programme.
