Doctors with Africa CUAMM is the largest Italian organization for the promotion and protection of the health of African populations. A long, arduous, daily journey alongside the poorest of the poor, living on the fringes, unseen by most eyes.

In Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda, Doctors with Africa CUAMM runs projects developed in conjunction with local bodies and performed in hospitals and other structures, mainly in rural areas.

The projects undertaken are strongly integrated with the healthcare culture and social tissue of the country, through a continuing dialogue with the local public authorities and religious institutions. In each of these countries, projects aimed at specific areas (training, mother-and-child-care, disabilities etc), as well as so-called ‘vertical operations’ intended to provide direct intervention against the great pandemics (AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria) are supported by a broad range of well-established long-term programmes.

Programmes implemented in war-torn areas, or where humanitarian emergencies exist, which have only recently become part of the body’s operating environment, aim at the effective co-ordination of projects aimed at providing immediate assistance with longer term programmes.

Currently Doctors with Africa CUAMM has:

• 168 field operators
• 38 key cooperation projects and a hundred or so micro support schemes, to provide backing for
  17 hospitals
  26 districts (for public health activities, mother-child care, fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, training)
  5 nursing schools
• 2 Universities (in Mozambique and Ethiopia).

It is a daily commitment, low profile but continuous, which aims at training people and reinforcing local institutions. Doctors with Africa Cuamm is a story of cooperation among living people; it doesn’t ask for charity, only for justice and solidarity.