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News & Updates
May 03 Issue 51
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Happy new month! Welcome to another edition of the CARTA monthly updates. Read on to keep abreast with what is new. | |
CARTA Training of Trainers (ToT) Development Workshop | |
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The CARTA Training of Trainers course development Workshop is scheduled to take place May 9-12, 2022 at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi. About 40 scholars will be meeting to discuss and finalize the ToT training materials for all seven CARTA intervention courses. Besides the writing, the team will be looking critically on the most appropriate modes of delivering effective training for the trainers who will be undertaking to run all CARTA courses at the partner institutions.
As we also seek to digitize the CARTA courses, the process will include deliberations on the design and all technicalities and requirements of the audiovisual support that the ToT will require.
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Help us give you more visibility - Update your graduate profile!
Since its inception, the program has worked to give visibility to its fellows and graduates by publishing their profiles on the CARTA website. Last year we reinforced this effort with an exercise to update expended profiles for all our graduates and make them visible and accessible through different means. This involved collection of the information through the REDCap personalized links shared to our graduates' emails. The aim of the exercise is to share fellows and graduates information to connect them to interested partners and potential collaborators in grant writing and fundraising exercises. If you haven't filled in your extended profile, take a minute to find the link in your carta e-mail and help us with your details. If you did submit your information, please check the website to see if your details are complete and accurate. Should there be any incorrect and incomplete information, please contact us through cartaevaluation@aphrc.org
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Graduations and Completions | |
Margaret Completes PhD Thesis!
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We would like to congratulate Margaret Omowaleola Akinwaare (Cohort Eight Fellow, University of Ibadan) for successfully completing her PhD studies.
We congratulate her on this achievement and await her graduation!
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Margaret Abimbola Promoted to Senior Lecturer | |
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Margaret Obimakinde Abimbola (Cohort Nine Fellow, University of Ibadan) was promoted to Senior lecturer at the Family Medicine Unit of the Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, on March 1, 2022.
We congratulate her on this acheivement!
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Presentations at Conferences | |
Sara Nieuwoudt, webinar panelist | |
On April 26, 2022, Sara Nieuwoudt (Cohort Four Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand) was a panelist in a webinar titled Social and Behaviour Change (SBC): addressing health equity and social determinants of health in family planning and reproductive health.
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Macellina Presents at a virtual Conference
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Macellina Ijadunola (Cohort Six Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University) gave an oral presentation at the virtual Population and Reproductive Health Dynamics under Covid-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa Conference on March 14-16, 2022. The conference was hosted by the NRF COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Network, where she shared her team's research on "Experience of intimate partner violence before, during, and after covid-19 pandemic lockdown among women attending an urban comprehensive health centre in south west nigeria". Participants and panelists participated in robust discussion on the impacts of Covid-19 on population and reproductive health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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CARTA Partners Annual Forum
CARTA hosted its partners at a one-day forum held virtually on April 5, 2022. The annual forum gives the CARTA partners an opportunity to be informed on the program’s progress and discuss the strategy, challenges and lessons learnt. In this year’s forum, the partners adopted the CARTA 2021-2025 M&E framework, followed up on institutional actions taken subsequent to the VCs’ meeting.
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Implications of national tax policy on local pharmaceutical production in a southwestern state Nigeria – qualitative research for the intersection of national pharmaceutical policy on health systems development | |
Universal access to quality and affordable medicines is among the targets of the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) which is focused on the health and well-being of people across the world. Taiwo Obembe (Cohort Five Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University), conducted this study to understand the dynamics of tariffs and tax policy on local drug production in the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria.
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Antiretroviral therapy uptake and predictors of virological failure in patients with HIV receiving first-line and second-line regimens in Johannesburg, South Africa: a retrospective cohort data analysis | |
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical to maintain HIV viral load (VL) suppression, improve immunologic function and reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality. Therefore, provision of ART to people with HIV has continued to be scaled up, with an estimated 24.5 million people with HIV taking ART globally in 2019 with South Africa contributing to about 20% (4.8 million) of the global number of HIV-positive people accessing ART. Siphamandla Gumede (Cohort Eight Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand) therefore, described the demographics, treatment information and identified characteristics associated with virological failure and being lost to follow-up (LTFU) for patients with HIV on first-line and second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens in a large South African cohort
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Empathy assessment among medical doctors working at the university college hospital Ibadan, Nigeria | |
Empathy is the competence of a physician to understand the patient's situation, perspective and feelings and to act on that understanding in a helpful therapeutic way. Empathy is the backbone of patient-physician communication in clinical care, it can be innate, learnt or acquired in the course of the medical career. Abimbola Margaret (Cohort Nine Fellow, University of Ibadan), set out to assess empathy and its correlates amongst medical doctors working at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria
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A training for health care workers to integrate hepatitis B care and treatment into routine HIV care in a high HBV burden, poorly resourced region of Uganda: the ‘2for1’ project | |
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an on-going global public health challenge. Of the 257 million individuals that are infected worldwide, 60 million reside in Africa. With chronic HBV, comes complications that significantly contribute to mortality, including cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer. Joan Mutyoba (Cohort Six Fellow, Makerere University) concluded that facility-based HBV-focused education intervention conducted as part of HIV/HBV care integration training for HCWs in West Nile region of Uganda yielded improved knowledge about HBV and its prevention and more positive attitudes towards HBV-infected patients.
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Call for applications 2021 AAS Honorary Fellowship
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) recognizes excellence by electing scholars who have outstanding achievements in their fields of expertise and have made significant contributions to the advancement of the field on the African continent. Fellows of The AAS are elected based on these achievements that include their publication record, innovations, leadership roles and contribution to society. The AAS Fellowship has three categories of recognition: Fellows, Associate Fellows and Honorary Fellows.
Honorary Fellows are eminent members of society who have made significant contribution to the vision of the Academy. They are nominated by a minimum of three Fellows and/or Associate Fellows of the AAS. The Governance and Nominations sub-committees shall review the nominations before the candidates are directly elected by the Governing Council.
Please contact fellows@aasciences.africa if you need any clarification.
Deadline: June 29, 2022
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The DAAD-funded scholarship programme “Leadership for Africa”, East Africa
The DAAD Regional Office for Africa is pleased to inform you that the call for the third intake for the DAAD-funded scholarship programme "Leadership for Africa in East Africa" is now open! This year the targeted East African countries are Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
The unique scholarship programme “Leadership for Africa” (LfA), funded by the German Foreign Office, aims to support the academic qualification and advancement of young African refugees and national scholars from selected countries such as Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda at higher education institutions in Germany. In times of conflicts and displacement in various African countries, the DAAD intends with this programme to contribute to the education of a future elite of leaders, who will be essential for the reconstruction and further development of their home countries. Leadership for Africa offers scholarships for Master’s studies in Germany to qualified applicants in all fields of study except for medicine, public health, veterinary medicine, dentistry, law, the arts, and architecture. Public health is open for application in the field of medical studies.
Deadline: June 30, 2022
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MA Program in African Sustainable Communities at Ben Gurion University Israel
“African Sustainable Communities,” is a program that includes a year of study at BGU, followed by the implementation of a three-month project in a local community in Africa. The program targets students from a wide range of disciplines, and aims to create a community of diverse interest and vibrant dialogue around questions of community development and sustainability. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the program includes courses in history, politics, sociology, economics, development studies, and cultural studies, and also draws upon Ben-Gurion University’s strong reputation in environmental studies, desert studies, global health, and more. The aim is to provide students with the theoretical background, analytical skills and practical perspectives that are needed for realizing individual and communal endeavors across a broad spectrum of fields.
Deadline: April 16, 2022
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Find more opportunities on our website here.
Disclaimer: The opportunities we share are mostly from external funders. Linking to an external site does not constitute an endorsement by CARTA.
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Top 10 Problems Reviewers Cite in Applications
Have you ever wonder why your grant applications never gets approved.? Here are top 10 problems to avoid when grant writing.
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Country ownership in global health
In this article Mohammed Noor breaks down some of the lessons he has learnt over the last twenty years on country ownership.
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The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper
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CARTA Secretariat partners with PRB to host a Series of Webinars
Check out the video recordings of the CARTA webinar series on policy communication
Writing and communicating science to a non-scientific audience Link to webinar 1
Engaging policy makers to promote evidence-based decision making Link to webinar 2
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Research4Life Webinars
FREE educational 6-part webinar program to guide you to navigate the publishing and scholarly communications landscape so you can maximize your research output and impact
More information can be found here.
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