Dear Colleagues

Welcome to the 2nd AFREhealth Symposium in Durban, South Africa from 6th to 8th August 2018. This year's theme, “Towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Africa - Creating Synergies and Capacity through Education, Research and Quality Health Services”, reflects one of Africa's priority goals. The increasing gap in income, health and education between the poor and middle class, and the rich, continues to grow and threatens to undermine the gains in development Africa has seen over the last few decades. Sub-themes include Training Health Professionals for Universal Health Coverage; Building Health Research Capacity in Africa for UHC; Achieving the SDGs and the 90-90-90 targets for HIV/AIDS; Financing health care in Africa; and North-South & South-South partnerships for health system development. This Symposium brings together leaders from academia, NGOs, funders, the private sector and government.

It’s an exciting time for AFREhealth as we continue to grow and adapt, remaining always adaptable, motivated and responsive to the priority health issues in Africa for research and education of different health care professionals, striving towards quality of care and health systems improvement. Health care in Africa is facing many challenges and changes as we strive towards the achievement of the SDGs and implementation of Universal Health Care. It is an exciting area in which to work, research and collaborate, and we’ll continue to meet and bring inspired people together in forums like this, to ensure that AFREhealth remains at the forefront of capacity development and research production.

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The African Forum for Research and Education for Health (AFREhealth) is proud to be the recipient of a $ 3,942,419 five-year grant award from the US National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center (NIH/FIC). The overall objective of this grant is to strengthen AFREhealth as a pan-African multi-professional young association, through building squarely upon the highly productive experience and achievements of the PEPFAR-supported Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI). The specific aims of the proposed grant are to:
1.    Strengthen AFREhealth to become a leading, self-sustaining, pan-African inter-professional organization;
2.    Provide strong professional skills development, inter-institutional and inter-professional partnerships, build collaborations, and shared learning to increase quantity, quality, and retention among African health workers;
3.    Provide transformational leadership to increase productivity, impact, and visibility of African-led, locally relevant health research.

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