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The health profile in Sub-Saharan Africa - Training day at the UAM

Wednesday 30 March from 16h to 20hIn the afternoon, the Recover Foundation will be holding a training session "Knowing the health profile in Sub-Saharan Africa". as part of the Master's Degree in Nursing Research and Care in Vulnerable Populations of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The conference will be held at the Seminar 1 of the Faculty of Medicine of the UAM and will be open to the public free of charge:

Programme of the training day

16:00h Welcome
Katia Á. Charro - Communication and recruitment - Recover Foundation

16:05h Recover Foundation: Where we are born determines our health
Chus de la Fuente - Director - Recover Foundation

16:20h Debunking myths: a journey to the African continent
Katia Á. Charro - Communication and recruitment - Recover Foundation

16:35h Health context in sub-Saharan Africa
Cristina Juan - Hospitals Programme: a health network - Fundación Recover

16:55h The role of nursing in Cameroon
Clarice DJOB - Nurse in Cameroon
Emilie Ngono - Field projects - Recover Foundation

17:25h International cooperation perspective
Beatriz Moreiras - Nurse, anthropologist and volunteer at Fundación Recover

17:45h Volunteering: within everyone's reach
Nery Villalobos - Projects in Spain - Recover Foundation

18:00h Questions and brainstorming
Katia Á. Charro - Communication and recruitment - Recover Foundation

19:00 Conclusions and end of the day

If you also want to collaborate, become a member of Recover now

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Sahrawi refugee camps

Population > 200,000

0.5 Doctors/1000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

From 2025

2 health centres supported

Telemedicine, infrastructures

Incidence in 13,000 people

Sahrawi camps - kindergarten

Spain

6.21 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

Resource 7

1,024 health and management volunteers, and non-health volunteers, offering their expertise

8 partner hospitals in the country

Resource 9

More than 90 companies/entities have collaborated with their projects

Tanzania

0,1 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Operating theatre and other equipment, volunteering, telemedicine

Incidence in 10,140 people

Uganda

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

1 health centre supported

Telemedicine

Uganda context photo

South Sudan

0,4 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

2 health centres supported

Ophthalmology campaigns

Incidence in 15,000 people

Mobile Clinic H Yambio South Sudan

Republic of Chad

0,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Grants for laboratory training and equipment, nutrition unit and patient intervention in Spain

Incidence in 10,000 people

Image source: CC BY 2.0, Link

Equatorial Guinea

3,5 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

3 health centres supported

Telemedicine

Incidence in 1,000 people

Guinea Ecautorial context photo

Cameroon

1,24 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

71 health centres supported

Resource 10

Hospital management, electricity, water and sanitation infrastructure, health campaigns (child malnutrition, cervical cancer, cardiovascular risk, malaria, sickle cell disease), equipment (operating theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy equipment, X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, electrocardiograms, incubators, dental chairs, ambulances, etc.), training scholarships in Spain and Africa, telemedicine, intervention of 63 patients in Spain.

Incidence in 998,218 people

cameroon

Burundi

0,65 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2024

1 health centres supported

Reference anatomical pathology laboratory

Incidence in 78,031 people

Democratic Republic of Congo

3,7 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

7 health centres supported

Training in Spain, laboratory equipment, drinking water, photovoltaic energy and telemedicine

Incidence in 30,500 people

congo

Photo by Russell Watkins, Department for International Development

Burkina Faso

1 Doctor/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

3 health centres supported

Intervention for cardiac patients in Spain, telemedicine

Incidence in 60,000 people

Pielá - water well - Burkina Faso

Côte d'Ivoire

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

23 health centres supported

Telemedicine, hospital management, maternal and child health, mental health, sickle cell disease, diabetes

Incidence in 148,000 people

côte d'ivoire context

Benin

0,62 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

2 health centres intervened

Maternity infrastructure, drinking water, energy, ultrasound equipment, management

Incidence in 20,850 people

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