AfroPHC is keen to develop Chapters in different countries across Africa to advance the agenda of AfroPHC and get local PHC team leaders to work together, engage with key stakeholders and action simple projects locally. 

The AfroPHC Executive Board has laid out a schedule of meetings over 2022 to support this development. See here. It will run 2-4pm Central Africa Time on the 3rd Friday of every month. All AfroPHC Executive Board members will be there. 

Our first meeting for West Africa will be 1-3pm West Africa Time Friday 18th February 2022. See local time here. All AfroPHC members (and anyone else) from the following countries are invited: Nigeria, Ghana, Niger, Guinea, Benin, Burundi, Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mauritania, Gambia, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal. There will be French translation. Please feel free to share this with other colleagues in these countries. 

Go to to the Chapter Webpage to find the calendar invite and zoom link to join the meeting.

Join the 3rd Africa Interprofessional Education Network (AfrIPEN) virtual conference 13h00-18h00 Central African Time on 15-17th September 2021. See the programme and registration details in the documents below. You can also register here.

AfroPHC is planning a 3-day Launch Conference 19th – 21st June 2020 at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.  We hope to develop AfroPHC as the voice of the PC/PHC team and its supporters, sharing and supporting each other in advocating for PHC and a strong team-based approach to delivery.

There will be an Advanced Practice Africa Region Symposium on the 18th of June 2020 at the same venue. This will explore the development of Advanced Nurse Practice in Africa.

Primafamed, an African network for family medicine education/research in over 25 countries, will also have its annual meeting on the 17th June 2020 at the same venue. This usually explores family doctor education and research but will focus on team issues in this meeting.

Various leaders in PHC across Africa will be there: family doctors from WONCA Africa, clinical officers from the African Network of Associate Clinicians, family nurse practitioners from the Association of African Advanced Nurse Practitioners, nurse leaders from the International Council of Nurses, public health practitioners from the African region of Towards Unity for Health, health educators/researchers from AfreHealth, multidisciplinary team members from AfriPEN, community health worker/community leaders from AMREF and a variety of other key stakeholders. We are expecting key people from WHO Global, WHO AFRO and World Bank to be there.

The likely cost for teas/lunches will be $25 per person per day for African delegates and $50 per person for non-African delegates. Payment will be by Paypal.

The Holiday Inn Johannesburg Sunnyside Park Hotel is a walk away.

• Single Occupancy rate R1225.00 Bed and Breakfast per room per night
• Single Occupancy rate R1435.00 Dinner, Bed and Breakfast per room per night

There are many hotels in the vicinity and getting to Wits is easy with Uber.

Registration and more details will be forthcoming as we proceed.

Please join WHO/IBP, UNFPA, USAID and the IBP HIPs Task Team for a Series of Webinars around Maximizing FP Investments through Evidence Based Programming. We will be hosting the first of the webinar series on High Impact Practices on May 6th, 2015 from 9:00 to 10:30 EST.  

Webinar 1:  How do we synthesize and translate more than 50 years of experience and learning from family planning programming?  Using High Impact Practices

High Impact Practices (https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/) (HIPs) are effective service delivery or systems interventions that when scaled up and institutionalized, can strengthen a comprehensive family planning strategy. The HIPs briefs are concise summaries of these evidence-based practices to help focus FP resources and efforts.  In this webinar we will discuss the origin of the HIPs, the development of the HIP briefs, and their application to inform program decision making.

When: Wednesday, May 6th, 9:00am – 10:30am EST with time for discussion

Presenters:

·       Gifty Addico, UNFPA

·       Shawn Malarcher, USAID

·       Suzanne Reier, WHO-IBP

·       Alisa Wong, FP2020

Registration: Please click here (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3480951924858858497?) to register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Website: https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/

Twitter: #hips4fp

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HIFA profile: Rebecca Shore is a Communications Specialist with Knowledge for Health (K4Health), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. www.jhuccp.org, www.k4health.org Rebecca.Shore AT jhu.edu

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We have the website set up (more or less) and now we are going to re-engineer other sites you know of (www.drmoosa.co.za , www.jozifamilymedicine.org.za and www.woncaafrica.org). These sites will remain more static while we will make AfroCP the centre of our focus and regular posts.

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Enjoy!