- Overview
- Mission & Objectives
- Background
- Edulink
- Partners
- Primafamed/VLIR Workshop 2011
- Primafamed/VLIR Workshop 2010
- Primafamed Workshop 2009
- Primafamed Conference 2008
- Events
- Interesting Literature
- 15 by 2015
- Links
- Contact
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Primafamed
The Primafamed-EU funded project stops, the Primafamed-network continues and is alive and kicking! We will continue to serve as a hub for the information sharing between the partners, we continue the newsletters and the yearly workshops. We are actually looking for sustainable funding for the Primafamed-network. All ideas are welcome. Together we will make a difference for Africa!
Jan De Maeseneer
End of the Primafamed Edulink funding
The Primafamed project financed by Edulink ACP EU has ended. After the first 2 years of the project and another 6 months extension, the funds provided by the European Union are finished. Though this will not mean it is over. In the past years we have built up a strong network of partners all over Sub Saharan Africa working on the development of the family medicine training. Primafamed will continue as the Primafamed network with the same vision and mission. Presently we are not able to finance the partners. But through other funds and projects the South ? South cooperation, yearly workshop/conference and the further development of family medicine all over Africa will continue and grow. Slowly but steadily more and more countries all over the continent are starting to realize the importance of well-trained doctors in primary health care. The strong links between countries within the Primafamed network will make that countries can learn from each other and share experiences in the process of development of the family medicine training and integrating family medicine in the country?s health system.
My thanks
I would like to thank all people that I have worked with in the past years and with whom I would not have been able to do my work. Together we have done a great job! As Atai Omorutu (head of department family medicine, Makerere University Uganda) has put it "It has been an exciting experience working with you and we have been like a true family; sometimes quiet, sometimes laughing, sometimes fighting but always together! Let us continue to be passionate about Family Medicine for posterity."
I finish at my work at Ghent University as the Primafamed coordinator 1st September. But there are other devoted people in Ghent to continue Primafamed.
All my thanks to you all!
Yours sincerely,
Maaike Flinkenflogel
Primafamed Newsletter
Interesting literature
Primafamed workshop 2010
When: 23-25 August 2010 Before the RUDASA conference
Where: Swaziland
Main focus:
- Research in the family medicine training: the master thesis
- Research in and on family medicine in Sub Saharan Africa
for more information please contact primafamed@ugent.be
Article: " Family Medicine's Commitment to the MDGs"
The Lancet. Family medicine's commitment to the MDGs. Jan De Maeseneer, Chris van Weel, Richard Roberts. May 2010 - PDF
Article: " Primary Health Care in Africa: do family physicians fit in"
British Journal of General Practice. Primary health care in Africa. Do family physicians fit in? Jan De Maeseneer, Maaike Flinkenflogel - PDF
WONCA Africa Statement of consensus 2009 - final version
- The Final version of the WONCA African Statement of consensus 2009
- http://www.phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/151/50
PRIMAFAMED Training of Trainers workshop
Development of Departments of Family Medicine and PHC
28 - 31 October 2009
Rustenburg South Africa
WONCA Africa Conference 2009
Primary Health Care Resolution accepted
On the 22nd of May 2009 at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the
WHO accepted the Primary Health Care Resolution. - PDF
WONCA Africa conference 2008 (for more information)
Improving the quality of family medicine training in Sub-Saharan Africa
From 17-21 November 2008 Primafamed has organized a conference in Kampala Uganda on sharing experiences, ideas, knowledge and skills on training African family physicians. The target group was Primafamed partners, associates, stakeholders and other interested people.
Programme and information from all given presentations
African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine
Primafamed an institutional network for the development of family medicine and primary health care in Africa
Primafamed is a 2-year project financed by Edulink-ACP-EU. With Primafamed
we want to establish an institutional network between departments of family
medicine and primary health care in universities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
South-South cooperation and sharing of experiences and skills in family
medicine training is very important. The objective of this network is to
develop a comprehensive vision and strategy to delineate the integral contribution
of family medicine and primary health care team to an equitable and accessible
primary health care system of good quality for all.
Primafamed is coordinated from Ghent University, Belgium, and is working
together with 10 partners universities in 8 African countries. Next to
this we have many associated universities worldwide, including all departments
of family medicine in South-Africa.
Primafamed August newsletter
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