Formerly known as the University College for Aspiring Missionary Doctors, Doctors with Africa CUAMM was founded in 1950 by Francesco Canova, previously a missionary doctor in Jordan. Monsignor Girolamo Bortignon, the Bishop of Padua, immediately lent his support to Canova and the project.
In 2024 In the Iringa DC district, CUAMM continued the integrated project for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, especially diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Tosamaganga Hospital covered the role of district hub, especially for the management of critical patients, while the development of peripheral healthcare facilities has encouraged the decentralization of treatments [...]
This 13 and 14 April in London Doctors with Africa CUAMM presented a set of good practices, the outcome of a pilot project we recently wound up in Tanzania. CUAMM was the only Italian NGO selected by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the international NGO World Vision to partner on the project, which used technologies to test a participatory approach in the monitoring of health care service quality.
Doctors with Africa CUAMM’s support for the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s largest hospital for obstetric emergency management, gets underway.
November 2015 No. 72
Mary is a 29-year-old South-Sudanese woman, who had to travel several miles in order to deliver, with many discomforts to bear. The history has been taken by Peninah Nalubega, who, as she wrote, "is an Ugandan by nationality and a midwife by profession, working in Lui Hospital as an employee of CUAMM".
The audience is one of a series of initiatives to develop a program for the care of mothers and children that Doctors with Africa CUAMM wants to start in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Verona 21st November 2015 Aula Magna of the University Viale Università, 4 10:00 – 13:00
