Primary care and international health links: should GPs get more involved?

摘要

Cath volunteers with the PONT Mbale (www.PONT-mbale.org) link and chairs their primary care committee which is embedded in a community to community partnership between Rhondda Cynon Taf in South Wales and a district in Uganda called Mbale. Since 2005, PONT have trained 60 operational level health workers (OHWs] across three nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), 4-50 community health workers (CHWs) across five NGOs, and distributed 10 000 insecticide treated bed nets. Cath is enthusiastic about the Department for International Development's (now UKAID) ￡5 million annual investment in the new International Health Partnerships Scheme, which was announced last year.