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The idea to set up this project in Madagascar stemmed from the observation of the low level of education and the high number of school drop-outs among the poorest sections of the population, especially in rural areas and the deep south; This is due both to economic problems (public and private schooling has a cost […]
The APS Association is based in Bujumbura, Burundi; it was founded by Marie Claire Gegera, a Burundian Nurse who has been living and working in Genoa for several years, and who was orphaned at a very young age by both her parents, who died during the civil war that bloodied the country for many years. […]
Haemoglobin disorders are inherited blood diseases that affect how oxygen is carried in the body. Haemoglobin disorders fall into two main categories: sickle-cell disease and thalassaemias. • Sickle-cell disease is characterized by a modification in the shape of the red blood cell from a smooth, donut-shape into a crescent or half moon shape. The misshapen […]
In Burundi and Madagascar, as in much of Africa, access to health care, for the majority of the population, is very complicated, for many reasons. First of all, because the vast majority of the inhabitants, especially in Burundi, live in the rural areas of the country, where there are no satisfactory health structures; secondly, because […]
In Burundi there is a large number of people with limb amputation, especially the lower ones. Many of these disabilities have been the result of wears (the civil war ended in 2004), some are due to traumas from car or work accidents, other are the result of disabling and destructive diseases (mainly osteomyelitis and sickle […]
We have just returned a few days after the second and last mission of 2019 in Burundi. It was a complex expedition both from an organizational and logistic point of view, for the number of expatriate participants who took part (eight), for the management of the material to be sent by air (all the components […]
