Health professionals trained to improve handling of diabetes
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The first national diabetes training programme for primary care physicians in Africa closed on Tuesday this week, with preliminary outcomes presented at a virtual ceremony to mark the successful completion of the pilot project.
The online training programme was launched in 2019 and has trained over 1,380 general practitioners (GPs) throughout Kenya.
Tuesday’s event involved representatives from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Diabetes Kenya Association (DKA), Kenya Diabetes Study Group, Sanofi Kenya and the Kenyan Ministry of Health.
Speaking at the event, Professor Andrew Boulton, IDF President, emphasised the need for the training of healthcare professionals in Africa.
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The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have been working with partners including farmers, funders Biovision Foundation Switzerland and the Agriculture for Nutrition and health CGIAR Research Program A4NH, as well as the Kenyan Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, to tackle this challenge.
African leafy vegetables like Amaranth, can contain 200 times more vitamin A and 10 times the iron of a similarly sized portion of cabbage, for example. In partnership with Vihiga County Department of Health, through trainings, demonstration plots, seed banks and use of community health volunteers to carry out door-to-door nutrition training, the project has reached more than 20,000 women between the age of 15 and 49 years, in ten sub-locations in the county over four years.
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