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ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AFRICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS AS STAKEHOLDERS

ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AFRICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS AS STAKEHOLDERS. Presented by DR LAZ UDE EZE * Youth Action Ambassador, Young People We Care * Executive Director, The GUIHDE Initiative, Nigeria during the FAMSA 25 th GA @ University of Ghana, Accra; 18 th May 2010.

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ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AFRICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS AS STAKEHOLDERS

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  1. ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: AFRICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS AS STAKEHOLDERS Presented by DR LAZ UDE EZE * Youth Action Ambassador, Young People We Care * Executive Director, The GUIHDE Initiative, Nigeria during the FAMSA 25th GA @ University of Ghana, Accra; 18th May 2010

  2. Definitions • Achievement • MDGs • Medical Students • Stakeholder

  3. Who is a stakeholder? • - someone entrusted to hold stake for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stake to the winner • Stake - (n) a right/legal share of something

  4. MDGs • GOAL 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • GOAL 2: Achieve universal primary education • GOAL 3: Promote gender equality and empower women • GOAL 4: Reduce child mortality • GOAL 5: Improve maternal health • GOAL 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • GOAL 7: Ensure environmental sustainability • GOAL 8: Develop a global partnership for development

  5. Why medical students are stakeholders • We are young people • Young people under 25 yrs are half of the world population • Most medical students are under 25 years of age

  6. What can you do? • Raising awareness • Putting pressure on government

  7. How? • As individuals - self education/capacity building - advocacy - volunteer • As a group • MSAs as the tool • NGOs

  8. Introducing FAMSA Youth Agenda

  9. THE FAMSA YOUTH AGENDA • The FAMSA Youth Agenda is an initiative created to sustain a continental unit of effect consisting of Medical Students Associations determined to carry out responsible youth action to effectively contribute to African healthcare by marshaling concerted youth action in the belief of a manifest destiny for the people of the continent. • These medical students associations will be empowered with information, skills, contacts network and resource base to function effectively in respective localities.

  10. FAMSA Youth Agenda • The FAMSA Youth Agenda takes cognizance of the non-medical factors that influence health and healthcare and affect the spread of disease and seeks: • to develop the attitudes, knowledge and skill that the African medical student needs to be an effective player in the future of African healthcare; • to partner with existing initiatives and to undertake youth led, youth motivated and youth executed basic health projects in different African localities with a bias in reproductive health.The Youth Agenda integrates all public health activities of member MSAs under a common umbrella and with a common focus.

  11. FAMSA Youth Agenda • Emphasis will be on the following activities:               *Medical Student Associations capacity building               *HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness activities           *Village Concept Projects, VCPs .                       .

  12. Identification of small underserved population where MSAs can make an input

  13. Establishment of a MSA Health post

  14. Provision of basic health care and referral to higher centers

  15. Local health promotion activities

  16. Local reproductive health activities

  17. FYA - phases • The FAMSA Youth Agenda will be executed in three phases: • PHASE ONE • Launch of the FAMSA Youth Agenda at the FAMSA Youth Summit on the theme: “Possessing the Future; Africa, Health and the Youth”, and the strategic training sessions at The Permanent Headquarters, University College Hospital, Ibadan Nigeria. • 1) Regional workshops, training of trainers in five African sub regions i.e. North Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa and Central Africa. • 2) Production of training handbook on HIV/AIDS prevention methods and programs. • 3) Training workshops and manual on Village Concept Projects.

  18. FYA – Phase 2 • Local Medical Student Association training activities. • Assessment of localities for the Village Concept Projects. • Formation of MSA HIV/AIDS unit • Execution of prevention activities • Initiation of the Village Concept Projects

  19. FYA – Phase 3 • Evaluation of the program at the annual General Assembly of FAMSA. • The FAMSA Youth Agenda will be FAMSA’s primary effort in the coming years. It will last Four years in the first instance, and will undergo review and modification as it progresses.Funding RequirementsThe projects of the FAMSA Youth Agenda will require an estimated $3,000,000.00, (three million US Dollars), over three years.

  20. HIV/AIDS advocacy

  21. VCCT

  22. VCP -1

  23. VCP - 2

  24. Target population

  25. Target population

  26. Your effort counts; • Achieving MDGs begins with you!

  27. Thank you for your attention!

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