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Symposium "Global Trauma Care"
The German Society for Tropical Surgery (DTC) organizes a symposium on "Global Trauma Care" from 26th-28th October 2018 in Berlin.
"As you know, accidents are a high priority in children.
We would like to invite GTP members and interested to participate in the symposium. There will be plenty of opportunity for information exchange.
For more information see www.tropenchirurgie.org
Best regards
German Society for Tropical Surgery
GTP unterstützt drei Positionspapiere der ISSOP
In Anbetracht der aktuellen politischen und medizinpolitischen Ereignisse unterstützt die GTP ausdrücklich folgende drei Deklarationen bzw. Positionspapiere der International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) und möchte hiermit auf den Textinhalt aufmerksam machen.
Budapest Declaration on the Rights, Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth on the Move
Die GTP unterstützt diese 2017 bei der Jahrestagung der ISSOP verfasste Deklaration, welche in klaren Punkten zusammenfasst und dazu aufruft die Rechte und das Recht auf Gesundheits für migrierenden Kindern und Jugendlichen nicht von denen ortsansässiger Kinder und Jugendlichen zu unterscheiden und dafür Sorge zu tragen und verantwortlich zu sein, dass diese vulnerable Gruppe die bestmögliche Behandlung und Fürsorge erhält.
Response to US government's separation of families and violation of child and human rights
Die GTP unterstützt den Aufruf der ISSOP an die USA die Trennung von Kindern und Eltern an der mexikanischen Grenze zu unterbinden und beruft sich hier u. a. auch auf die o. g. Budapester Deklaration.
Statement on America’s Opposition to the International Resolution in Support of Breastmilk Feeding
Die GTP schließt sich der ISSOP in ihrem Positionspapier gegen das Vorgehen der USA die globalen Kollaborationen zur Förderung des Stillens zu unterbinden an. Wir zitieren hier einen Textauszug aus dem Positionspapier mit Kontaktdaten.
"The International Society of Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP), in concert with collaborating national and international societies of pediatrics (www.ISSOP.org), condemns in the most robust terms possible American officials’ attempts at the World Health Assembly to stop global collaboration to protect, promote and support breastmilk feeding. Breastmilk feeding is recognized as among the most effective health promoting measures to advance infant and child health. (https://www.issop.org/2008/02/01/essop-position-statement-2/)
In combination with the separation of children from their parents at the US border with Mexico (https://www.issop.org/2018/06/26/issop-response-us-governments-separation-families-violation-child-human-rights/), these policies represent a reprehensible global assault on the health and well-being of infants and children. We call on all public and private sector individuals and organizations to register their concerns with their governments and with the U.S. Government; and for the dismissal of US policy makers connected with these decisions.
We also call on all national and international pediatric organizations and stakeholders in infant health and well-being to review and renew their support for the International Code on Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes; as well as their policies related to receiving support from formula companies—that inevitably create serious conflicts of interest. (https://www.issop.org/2014/04/24/issop-position-statement-4/)."
Contact:
Jeffrey Goldhagen, M.D., Jeffrey.Goldhagen@jax.ufl.edu, 1.904.237.9475 (US)
Nicholas Spencer, M.D., N.J.Spencer@warwick.ac.uk, +44.7542.961640 (Europe)
Clinical Partnership GPT-Malawi (2017-2019)
About the project
In a cooperation project with GIZ, funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the GTP, supported by the Forum for International Health (www.foring.org), was very successfully involved in the further specialist training of paediatricians in Malawi from 2017 to 2019. The postgraduate programme at the College of Medicine in Malawi's capital Lilongwe is supported by several international partners and also includes the training of so-called "clinical officers" for further education in paediatrics. The project consisted of the following components for the GTP:
- Up to 6 teaching visits of German paediatricians per year in Malawi
- Implementation of community-based teaching on site
- Supervision of research projects leading to publications
- Sending volunteer doctors, nurses and midwives to teach on site
Collaboration opportunities
For components 1, 2 and 4, GTP together with BMZ sought paediatric colleagues with teaching experience or work experience in resource-poor countries who were willing to teach in Malawi for a limited period of time (from 2 weeks duration) and thus support our programme as trainers or lecturers.
Further information on the project can be obtained either from the former programme manager in Germany Dr Carsten Krüger (email) or from the then project manager on site Dr Andreas Schultz (email).
Prerequisites for participation in module 1 and 2 were:
- Specialist in paediatrics, preferably with additional qualification
- Demonstrable experience of teaching in postgraduate programmes
- Work experience or teaching experience in sub-Saharan Africa/low-resource setting
Prerequisites for participation in module 4 were:
- Completed professional training in the aforementioned disciplines
- Experience in teaching Bachelor's and Master's programmes
- Intercultural competence and team spirit
All expenses related to the preparation and implementation of the teaching components in Germany and Malawi were covered, but a salary could not be paid. We thank the colleagues who helped us to accompany young, enthusiastic Malawian specialists in their training as well as to expand our further training programme in paediatrics for "Clinical Officers".
Subspecialties in demand
- Emergency medicine
- Intensive care
- Quality management
- Neonatology
- Cardiology
- Infectious diseases
- Gastroenterology
- Allergology
- Pulmonology
- Endokrinology
- Nephrology
- Paediatric neurology
- Onkology and palliative care
Contact
Dr. Carsten Krüger (email) - Programme coordinator in Germany
Dr. Andreas Schultz (email) - Project coordinator on site