Read about our project with the World Health Organisation in the Syrian Arab Republic where people living in a complex humanitarian crisis are able to access primary health care services to treat their NCDs.
PCI’s new project in Namibia: supporting the MoHSS
A Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) NCD screening event in Namibia showed that the prevalence of hypertension in adults is up to 40% in some areas. This means a resulting high incidence of stroke and heart disease. PCI is pleased to be supporting the MoHSS, through our Letshego funded Healthcare Innovation Programme, to … Read more …
Our first ever ‘Caring for Refugees with NCDs’ certificate holder!
Congratulations to Edilu Robert, a clinician from Arua, Uganda. Robert is the first of our NCD champions to obtain the certificate as part of our multi-country project with UNHCR. He tells of his experience of working in a refugee setting, and the importance of a team healthcare approach. “It’s a year now since I became … Read more …
From trainee into Trainer: feedback from Afghanistan
Following on from the training that we did in Afghanistan last year – on the use of WHO Emergency Kits medicines and equipment for the management of key NCDs – it’s exciting to see our cascade training model successfully moving forward. Hear directly from Dr Abdul Bari Khuram, a doctor from Afghanistan and one of … Read more …
PCI’s teamwork supports development of national guidelines in South Sudan
Adopting an iterative, pragmatic approach to guideline writing, the PCI clinical team has just concluded the co-writing of national level treatment guidelines for South Sudan. Drawing on a diverse bank of resources, our collaborative methodology enabled us to rapidly appraise the evidence base and produce high quality guidelines on a breadth of topics within just … Read more …
A ‘blended learning’ approach to training: focus on practical NCD management skills
The PCI team recently carried out a training with Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Jordan on providing NCD care in humanitarian settings for clinicians and medical programme managers working in MSF clinics in the region. This was the first time we used a ‘blended learning’ approach, where participants completed an e-learning course in advance of the … Read more …
Update on our partnership in Kenya: expanding access to quality health care
PCI is excited to be continuing our partnership with AMPATH and supporting their innovative work on primary healthcare. A key area of focus in this next phase will be the development of an ‘Operational Guidance’ manual: a practical guide to systems and infrastructure needed for setting up and running primary healthcare services. This will ensure … Read more …
Community primary care in action
We attended a group care meeting in Webuye, Kenya today and had the privilege of meeting Mercy*, who had just been diagnosed with diabetes. Mercy is a new member of a microfinance group there and had just been seen by a clinical officer for NCD screening. As part of the BIGPIC* project, health care clinics … Read more …
Decentralising NCD care in Mozambique
It’s exciting to see the next steps taking place within our ambitious project of decentralisation of non-communicable disease (NCD) care in Mozambique. This pilot project is a result of a new partnership between PCI and Professor Ana Mocumbi’s research team at the Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS)- the National Public Health Institute, facilitated by the … Read more …
Advancing the 5×5 approach to NCDs: including mental health in primary care
PCI recently carried out a training of trainers on mental health care to Libyan doctors as part of a broader DfID-funded/WHO led project on primary care. There has long been a push to include mental health care as part of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) care provided at primary care level. At the UN High Level Meeting … Read more …