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Mothers and children first

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News

Mary Becoming mother in South Sudan

Mary is a 29-year-old South-Sudanese woman, who had to travel several miles in order to deliver, with many discomforts to bear.
The history has been taken by Peninah Nalubega, who, as she wrote, “is an Ugandan by nationality and a midwife by profession, working in Lui Hospital as an employee of CUAMM”.

News

CUAMM meets Pope Francis

The audience is one of a series of initiatives to develop a program for the care of mothers and children that Doctors with Africa CUAMM wants to start in collaboration with the World Health Organization

In Africa

Our work in Uganda

Fighting HIV/AIDS, malnutrition and tuberculosis, assuring maternal and neonatal care and training local health workers: some of the goals of Doctors with Africa CUAMM.

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Our history

Uganda Our history

The intervention of Doctors with Africa CUAMM in Uganda started in 1958. It has been a long work, that still goes on, for the health of all the population, but in particular for mothers and children.

In Africa

Our work in Ethiopia

After more than 30 years in Ethiopia, Doctors with Africa CUAMM is still working for the health of local people. From 2012 Ethiopia is one of the countries involved in the project “Mothers and children first”.

In Africa

Our work in Angola

We have been operating in Angola since 1997, in the fields of medical, obstetric and paediatric care, tuberculosis treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention.

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In Africa

Mothers and children first

A project to ensure free access to safe delivery and infant care in Africa: 4 countries, 4 hospitals, 22 peripheral health facilities, 1.300.000 inhabitants involved. Just one claim: “Mothers and children first”, because we want to guarantee mother-child health in Africa.

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Events

A waiting room New York

Photographic exhibition by Kasia Ciechanowska at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York, about women condition in Tanzania.
Realized during the 59th session of the “Commission on the Status of Women”.

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Events

Annual Meeting 2014 – Turin

“Mothers and children first. The last mile towards the future” was the title of our annual meeting, happened in Turin on 29th of November 2014.

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