The UK-Uganda 'Train the Trainer' Partnership Stopping Global Chronic Diseases
Watch our new film about the vital training programme to stop non-communicable diseases in partnership with Teeside University, Makerere University, and Health Workers for Development.
Chronic, long-term conditions like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes account for 70% of deaths in the UK and across the world. The same diseases that the NHS battles every day are set to become Africa’s biggest killer by 2023.
Global problems require global solutions and global partnerships.
UK doctors from Teesside University are partnering with their counterparts at Makerere University in Uganda to train frontline health workers to detect and manage these diseases early. In return, they bring back life-saving learnings to the NHS.
In partnership with Health Workers for Development, we spoke with Dr Lawrence Nnyanzi and Dr Esther Mireku about the mutual benefits of this partnership and how funding cuts are putting it at risk.
