JULY UPDATE

Just returned from spending July in Tanzania working at the KCMC Hospital with a large number of international elective medical students and many local Tanzanian doctors. Mornings were committed to helping advise on patient clinical care on the wards and in outpatients, and this was followed with a daily teaching session at Jacob’s Well. Afternoons were spent working on the Research program and we are now nearly ready to resume the next phase of data collection in the villages of the Hai District. We have already analysed the pilot data results which are fascinating and since my return, our three MRes students who worked in Tanzania from March to May (Ribby, Shayo and Dylan) have presented their oral and poster findings to the University of Newcastle Medical School.

We are continuing with inpatient data collection and I have now trained 20 local Tanzanian Professionals in this process. They will resume community survey and census work with me in October when I’m next back in Moshi, and this process will continue for at least 6 months to ensure we have a statistically valid sample.

Some of the students and our team of guides on the way up Mount Meru