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Events & Conferences in Africa - Spring 2006 Training for African
Sites of the Multinational Pilot Study on Firearm Injuries Nairobi, Kenya
March 27-30, 2006A training program was held in March
in Nairobi, Kenya for physicians from five African countries who are participating
in an IPPNW sponsored multinational hospital-based research pilot study on injury
due to firearm violence.
Attending: Diego Zavala PhD, Puerto Rico (Training
Instructor), Walter Odhiambo MD, Kenya, Simon Bokongo MD, DR Congo, Robert Mtonga
MD, Zambia, Aminu Zakari Mohammed MD, Nigeria, Ismail Senoga MD, Uganda - as well
as 4 other Kenyan doctors - Drs. Monica Mucheru, Samuel Njiru, Kairu Hiram, and
Germine Surubuga Makory - and 3 Medical Students - Florian Hugenberg - IPPNW Germany,
and Dedan Opondo and Angela Mwita, IPPNW Kenya
Thirteen representatives
of 5 IPPNW African affiliates from Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and the Democratic
Republic of Congo attended a 3 ½ day training in Nairobi, Kenya, organized
by IPPNW and conducted by Dr. Diego Zavala of Puerto Rico, the Principal Investigator
and director of a landmark 6-country international hospital-based pilot study
on firearm injuries being conducted by IPPNW affiliates (including El Salvador.
The purpose of the training:Review the project goals, which include collecting
contextual data on gun violence victims using a standard and thus comparable form;
review the data collection procedures; discuss building country support with key
health leaders for the program; and field test the data collection at Kenyatta
Hospital. The hospital activities were arranged by Kenyan affiliate leader Walter
Odhiambo. Entries into the survey forms were tested with ER doctors and nurses.
The training agenda can be viewed here.
Please click here for photos
from the training.
Funding for this was provided by Foreign Affairs
Canada under a grant to IPPNW for our Aiming for Prevention program.
The
next step, once additional funding is secured, is to launch the one-year research
project at all 6 sites. Findings will be used to help inform policy decisions
at the local, country and international level, and will be shared with medical
and public health colleagues as well as the public.
For
more information on IPPNW's Aiming for Prevention campaign, contact coordinator
Maria Valenti in the IPPNW Central
Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. posted April 27,
2006 
IPPNW's "Aiming for Prevention" program is currently supported
by grants from the Human Security Program at Foreign Affairs Canada. |
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