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Welcoming the new Project Manager to our College of Nursing & Midwifery, Southern Sudan

September 2, 2010 in Providing Medical Support, Rebuilding Communities, Sudan by Jonathan White | No comments

Please join us in welcoming Ms. Sophia Nyame, the new Project Manager for the Nursing and Midwifery College Project we are sponsoring in Southern Sudan. Sophia is a Registered Nurse/Midwife with 23 years of clinical experience and with a wealth of knowledge in Programme Management. She has worked as a Nursing Tutor, Clinical Nurse Supervisor and Hospital Matron in Ghana and as an International Midwife Trainer in Liberia.

Sophia has also been involved in Programmes in Ghana that are directed towards reduction in teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS transmission. She has a Diploma in Public Health, Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery, Certificate in Development Management and is fluent in French.

Sophia, will be helping our Assistant Project Manager Bilha Achieng in ensuring the success and future of the new College.

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Our Nursing College in South Sudan featured in Sudan Medical Journal

August 17, 2010 in Africa, Rebuilding Communities, Strategies for the Future, Sudan, Whole Health by Jonathan White | No comments

Program Director Bilha Achieng with the Principal and first class of students

The new Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery that Real Medicine supports and helps manage in South Sudan has finished with the foundation level courses for it’s first class of 40 students and getting ready to begin the diploma program next week.  In honor of this milestone, the Southern Sudan Medical Journal has published an article focused on the new College and it’s mission.  This is a unique project for Real Medicine as we are focused on building the actual capability of Sudanese to help themselves through their own resources in the future.  Graduating 40 new diploma level Nurses and Midwives every year will go a long way in helping South Sudan rebuild after decades of neglect.

As mentioned in the article, Bilha Achieng is Real Medicine’s program director for South Sudan and is doing an amazing job managing the launch of the College.

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Minister of Health for South Sudan visits our project: College of Nursing & Midwifery

July 26, 2010 in Africa, Initiatives, Rebuilding Communities, Strategies for the Future, Sudan by Jonathan White | Comments closed

Our project in South Sudan, the new Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery, continues to gain momentum and vital support, with Southern Sudan’s current Minister of Health, Dr. Luka Monoja, visiting the first student class at the temporary College campus in Juba.  The Juba College of Nursing and Midwifery is a new professional level 3 year college degree program supported by a consortium of stakeholders: Real Medicine Foundation, World Children’s Fund, UNFPA, UNDP, World Health Organization, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the government of South Sudan.

Dr. Monoja was accompanied by the Undersecretary Dr. Olivia Lomoro and various other government officials. He indicated the importance and deep need for this level of trained Nurses and Midwives in Southern Sudan, and also stressed the how this particular institution is not only important to his heart but also to the Ministry of Health for the sustainable capacity building of professional health care providers.

He also mentioned that the need for skilled birth attendants through the training of midwives at the College is geared specifically toward reducing Sudan’s very high maternal mortality rates. Though the establishment of the college was long overdue he was glad that Southern Sudan can boast of having one now.

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Introducing RMF’s Project Coordinator in South Sudan, Bilha Achieng

July 2, 2010 in Sudan, Voices from the Field by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

When Jonathan White, RMF Director of International Relations, was planning his 2010 trip across Uganda, Sudan, and Nigeria to visit our programs, we asked him to help us meet the people that make up Real Medicine on the ground–our coordinators, our doctors, our patients.

In response, he created “The RMF Proust Questionnaire (like the ones in the back of a Vanity Fair magazine)” and returned with the first interview: Meet Charles Naku,  RMF Project Coordinator, Uganda.

Here, in the second interview, we meet Bilha Achieng, RMF Project Coordinator, South Sudan.

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On the Road: Photos from S. Sudan, Nursing & Midwifery College Students and Principal

May 17, 2010 in Jonathan White, Sudan, Voices from the Field by Real Medicine Foundation Staff | Comments closed

Proud New Nursing & Midwifery Students and Principal

May 2010

After leaving Uganda, Jonathan heads to Southern Sudan to visit our Nursing & Midwifery College and to meet the new students who have recently begun classes on May 10th, 2010.

Southern Sudan hold ones of the the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the world. When Real Medicine landed in the new country to address this issue we realized that, more than anything, they needed trained staff to fill the facilities already in place throughout the country.

This is the first school of it’s kind and marks a decisive step toward curbing the infant and maternal mortality now plaguing Southern Sudan. Once the 3 year course is complete, our select students will go on to staff the now vacant clinics that dot the countryside and become the front line of care for mothers and children in need.

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Southern Sudan Holds First Multi-Party Elections in 24 Years (bbc.com)

April 12, 2010 in Sudan by Real Medicine Foundation Staff | Comments closed

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Photograph: Tim McKulka/AFP/Getty Images

“There is still a great need for programs that harness the local human resources available to provide real solutions that help Southern Sudan move towards independence from the North.”–M. Lear, RMF Sudan

Working with the Government of Southern Sudan, Real Medicine Foundation has helped to establish the first College of Nursing and Midwifery in Southern Sudan with the support from the World Children’s Fund, The UNFPA, The WHO, St. Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight, and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Learn more about Real Medicine in Sudan Read the rest of this entry »

BooksForSudan Academic Book Drive is Starting! Find out how you can Help…

March 11, 2010 in Sudan by Real Medicine Foundation Staff | Comments closed

Dear Friends,
There is a strong drive to improve the book stock in the University of Juba Library.

The University, will in principle, support the proposed College of  Nursing and Midwifery Education in Southern Sudan and as such materials to support Nurses and midwives will be welcome. A College of Nursing and midwifery to award Diplomas is in advanced stages of development.

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Living Through Birth: A Global Effort to Curb Maternal and Newborn Mortality

November 3, 2009 in Sudan by Allison Glennon | Comments closed

Clinic Opening 28Human death comes in many forms, but perhaps none more devastating and unfair than death in birth. Especially when the death could have been prevented.

According to Professor Lynn Freedman, from Columbia University’s School of Public Health, in developing countries there are five basic complications that cause the vast majority of maternal deaths: uncontrolled bleeding, infection, the consequences of unsafe abortions, prolonged and obstructed labor, and hypertensive diseases of pregnancy.

“The vast majority of deaths in high-mortality countries [are] from a handful of very clear direct causes,” she says concluding that since the causes and cures are so well understood, it is possible to eliminate almost all of them by simply providing the proper resources

Waiting… psp

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Sudan: Bashir’s Visit, My Flat Tire and an Ambulatory Rescue

March 26, 2009 in Sudan by Michael Lear | 1 comment

Bashir’s Visit, My Flat Tire and an Ambulatory Rescue Michael Lear Director, International Relations

Morning Chores

Morning Chores

….Still looking for the words to describe the transition into Juba Southern Sudan from Bweyale, Uganda.  At first all I could muster was a perplexed and dumb look and then after a day or two a moment of clarity struck me….”All Rides Are Open…” in this place.

Grand bleu, Le download

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Southern Sudan, March 16, 2009

March 16, 2009 in Sudan by Martina Fuchs | Comments closed

As we are preparing to establish our first project in Juba, Southern Sudan, in collaboration with the Juba Teaching Hospital, it looks like our support will be even more needed than anticipated:

Bleeding Rose dvdrip Nightmare City 2035 dvd

Boa vs. Python dvd

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