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Introduction to Primary Health Care School (IPHC)
Date: 28 March 2008
Place: West Africa
Language: French
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This school is held within an ideal learning environment because we are surrounded by tremendous physical health hazards, which are all too common in the tropics--malaria, water-borne diseases, gastro-intestinal infections, respiratory diseases, skin diseases, malnutrition, to name but a few. Did you know that all of the above are preventable and easily treated if diagnosed early on?
The school is six months long (three months in the class room and three months field-assignment in villages, hospitals and dispensaries) and addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the entire person.
The IPHC is ideal for non-medical people as well as nurses and medical professionals who desire to work in developing countries. Succesful completion of the DTS or CDTS is a prerequisite for the IPHC, which is accredited with the University of the Nations.
The school leader, Annette Courvoisier, from Switzerland, a Registered Nurse, has spent almost 40 years in developing countries and was instrumental in setting up primary healthcare work in rural Kenya, Thailand and Senegal. She is the contact person for the faculty for counseling and health care within the University of the Nations.
Lecturers in the school include medical doctors (Dr. Adamson Phiri from Zambia, Dr. Bryan Steele from USA, Josianne Volkmar from Switzerland), nurses and nutritionists. All of them have extensive experience in Africa. |
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