HealAfrica.org
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HEAL Africa: Changing Lives through Healing and Training
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- About HEAL Africa
- HEAL Africa was born (1994) out of a vision to upgrade rural health care by re-training medical practitioners. Over this 12 year period, the vision has matured. Congolese orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Jo Lusi, the co-founder, and his wife, Lyn Lusi, recognized that a far more radical approach was required. To significantly impact health long-term, disease must be addressed at its roots; the community must be involved and engaged, and cultural values, attitudes and practices examined. In 2005, DOCS changed its name to HEAL Africa, to more accurately reflect its holistic vision. HEAL Africa remains deeply committed to continuing medical education, and is equally committed to enabling conflict-ridden communities become transformed, healthy and dynamic. HEAL Africa has become a networking center for social activist organizations involved in improving people's health: victims of violence of all ages, widows, orphans, HIV/AIDS awareness and care programs, nutrition through agriculture, and work with the handicapped, A family medicine residency works with the University of Goma, the Medical University of South Africa and has links with the University of Ghent, Belgium, and the University of California at San Francisco, US.
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