Health care delivery in Southern Sudan is extremely poor as a result of the 21- year civil war. Infrastructure, particularly health care systems, have been destroyed.
AMREF has a strong working relationship with the Government of Southern Sudan especially with the Ministries of Health and Education.
One way AMREF is helping to reconstruct the local health care system is by training health care workers. AMREF develops curriculum and works closely with local government managing professional training centres.
AMREF is:
Training health professionals, 78% of qualified health workers in Southern Sudan have been trained by AMREF.
Public Health Training Institute in Juba
AMREF has finished training its first class of 20 students in Public and Environmental Health at the newly established institute.
Maridi National Training Institute
AMREF has trained a total of 213 clinical officers since 1988 in Maridi in collaboration with the Southern Sudanese Ministry of Health.
Lui Training Institute
The Lui National Health Training Institute is one of the oldest colleges in the country and was forced to close down during the war. AMREF took over running the school in 2006 to train community midwives.
Southern Sudan only has 1,005 trained midwives. It’s estimate that an additional 2,150 are needed. Currently midwife students are selected by the government but it is very difficult to find enough qualified candidates because many schools were shut down during the war.
The midwife course at the Lui Institute is ideally for high school graduates already serving as community health workers, auxiliary nurses or vaccinators, but students with lower qualifications are also admitted to make up for the shortfall or candidates. Finding qualified tutors is even more challenging. But so far, 15 students have graduated from the Institute so far, with another 13 in their first year and 18 in their second. Those who graduate are certified as midwives by the Ministry of Health and posted back into their communities.
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