OPENING PLENARY

Moderators:
Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde
Milliard Derbew Beyene

Welcome and Framing the Conference
Abigail Kazembe, AFREhealth President

Goodwill messages: Partners of AFREhealth

• University of California San Francisco - Eric Goosby
• National Institutes of Health - Roger Glass

Remembering our departed Colleagues

PLENARY 1: Socially Accountable Health Professions Education, Governments, NGOs and International agencies

Moderators:
Fatima Suleman
Abigail Kazembe

Panelists:
Agnes Binagwaho
A global View on social accountability in higher education

Keith Martin
Social accountability for international Non-Governmental organizations

Geneviève Moineau
Socially Accountability and Accreditation in Health Professions Education

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0DlbG6PB7Y&t=574s (Opening Plenary and Plenary 1)

Moderators:
Rose Chalo Nabirye

Presentations:

1. Bjorg Palsdottir: Evidence on the impact of socially accountable health professional education
2. Elizabeth N. Christian: Building Infrastructure for Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response at the University of Lagos
3. Sithembiso Blose: Healthcare professionals’ perceptions of community-based rehabilitation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
4. Taryn Young: Improving the reporting of health equity in observational studies: development of a STROBE-Equity guideline
5. Jinaw Qalib: Policy and process for developing the National Harmonised Curriculum for Medical Schools in Somalia

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Q59bmEus0

Moderators: 
Mosa Moshabela
Oathokwa Nkomazana

Presentations:
1. Celenkosini Thembelenkosini Nxumalo: Perceptions and Understanding of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Primary Health-care Practitioners in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
2. Shane C Quinonez: Use of Family History as a Risk Assessment Tool for Noncommunicable Disease
3. Sanusi Musa: Human parvovirus B19 infection prevalence in Africa: A five year contemporarous meta-analysis
4. Colleen Fant/Macrine Olwala: Pediatric Emergency Training, an Academic Partnership in Kisumu, Kenya
5. Theresia Ambrose Ottaru: Ideal Cardiovascular Health: distribution, determinants and relationship with health status among adults living with HIV in urban Tanzania
6. Doreen Mukona: Challenges and recommendations for diabetes in pregnancy care in Zimbabwe: evidence from a mixed methods study

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6pphANB48

Moderators:   
Prisca Adejumo
Midion Mapfumo Chidzonga

Presentations

1. Jamie Johnston: Cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based mobile video breastfeeding intervention in Khayelitsha, South Africa
2. Jennifer Jones: Investigating the role of certification in Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) enrollment among Healthcare Workers
3. Amity Eliaz: Transitioning interdisciplinary education for HIV from in-person to e-learning
4. Machoka P. Kanario: Decision-to-delivery interval of emergency caesarean sections and the associated maternal and neonatal outcomes at Thika level 5 hospital
5. Hadija Semvua: STRIPE HIV project experience during COVID-19 pandemic at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_rxN3Plzc

BREAKOUT 1d:
Topic: Service delivery – enhancing IPE/interventions to improve patient outcomes and health security
Moderators:
Judy Khanyola
Moses Simuyemba

Presentations

1. Daniel Dejene: Applying Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) Techniques for Strengthening Competency based Curriculum Implementation
2. Sarah Kiguli: Evaluation of Competency-Based Curriculum: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Implementation in one Uganda Medical School
3. Adebola Afolake Adejimi: Awareness of HPV Infection and Acceptability of HPV Self-sampling for Cervical Cancer Screening among Women Living with HIV in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
4. Omona Kizito: Determinants of Caesarean Section Rates (CSR) in Private-Not-For-Profit (PNFP) Healthcare Facilities in Uganda: A Study of St. Joseph’s Hospital Kitovu
5. Peter G. Delaney: Lay First Responder (LFR) Model: Leveraging Pre-existing Transportation Networks to Innovatively Deploy Sustainable Prehospital Emergency Medical Services in Resource-Limited sub-Saharan African Settings in West, Central, and East Africa

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwuaZtsaybM

BREAKOUT 1e:

Topic: Poster Session1

Moderators:
Aster Tsegaye
Nthabiseng Phaladze

Presentations

1. Ebenezer Wiafe: The Knowledge, Awareness, and Perception of Prostate Cancer: The Case of Kejetia Market Women
2. Felix Tetteh Dadebo: Evaluation of Treatment-Related Adverse Drug Reactions amongst Persons living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy
3. Alemseged Woretaw: Crossing the Regulatory Chasm; Introducing Program Accreditation
4. Asselef Tasew: Investment in Addressing Gender Disparity to Improve Health Professions Education in Ethiopia
5. Jama Ali Egal: Transfer of a Health Professions Education Course to Local Partners in Somaliland
6. Bekalu Assanew: Expanding access to digital learning avenues to enhance competency of the health workforce in Ethiopia
7. Lynne Muthoni Gathuru: Analysis of Registered Radiological Equipment in Kenya
8. Tsion Assefa Beyene: Technology -Assisted Learning and Collaborations to Improve the Implementation of Competency Based Curriculum: Hub -and-Spoke Institutional Networks

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVBJTvmiGlI

PLENARY 2: Epidemiological transition and disease burden of COVID -19, NCDs, HIV, TB, Malaria and Ebola

Moderators:
Nelson Sewankambo
Mosa Moshabela  

Panelists:
Emilia Noormahomed:
The COVID-19 Pandemic: The case of Mozambique

Jean Nachega:
COVID-19 Research in Africa

Ravinder Mamtani:
Lesson from COVID-19 – "Re-examining Public Health Priorities

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6lr4Fa-OEA

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PLENARY 3: Research approaches to assess impact and quality improvement in health education

Moderators:
Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde
Marietjie de Villiers

Panelists:
Susan van Schalkwyk:
Health Professions Education Research in Africa

Sarah Kiguli:
Building Health Professions Education Curricular in LMICs.

William Burdick:
Development of Higher Education Faculty for Research

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGcugftx8YE

Abstract Driven Sessions

BREAKOUT 2a:

Topic: Poster Session 2

Moderator: Rogathe Frank Machange

1. Sanusi Musa: Adherence to Universal Basic Precautions among Haematology staff, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria
2. Pule Solomon Moabi: Nursing Education Institutions’ Readiness to Fully Implement Simulation-Based Education in Lesotho
3. Abdul Warith Olaitan Akinshipo: Loss to follow up on status of head and neck cancer patients seen at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Nigeria
4. Evelyn Chilemba: The significance of strengthening Interprofessional Education for HIV Care among pre-licensure and newly qualified health care professionals in Malawi
5. Lirosha Moodley: Perspectives on budget considerations for pharmaceutical expenditure in South Africa
6. Promise Tamunoipiriala Jaja: The Perspective of Doctors to the Determinants of Access to Emergency Surgery in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3tH44Wsjo

BREAKOUT 2b:

Topic: Epidemiological transition and disease burden of COVID -19, NCDs, HIV, TB, Malaria and Ebola

Moderators:
Steve Kamiza
Mamudo Ismail

Presentations

1. Levin Chetty: Physical activity and exercise for older people living with HIV: A Scoping Review
2. Sarah Oluwatayo John-Olabode: Prevalence of Factor V Leiden G1691A and prothrombin G20210A gene mutation among pregnant women: Experience from a Multi-center study in Nigeria
3. Sikiru Olatunji Usman: Evaluation of the effects of atazanavir-ritonavir on the pharmacokinetics and toxicity of lumefantrine in Patients Living with HIV in LUTH
4. Shelley L Wall: Amputations Secondary to Burn Injuries in a Resource-Limited Setting
5. Muhammad Bello Garba: Relationship between health insurance and self-reported quality of life among hypertensive patients in Kaduna State Northwest Nigeria

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSUFafU4XA

BREAKOUT 2c:

Topic: Research approaches to assess impact and quality improvement in health education

Moderators:
Onesmus Gachuno
Abdon Mukalay

Presenters

1. Heavenlight Luzinge: Digital Transformation in Health Education: Case of KCMUCo during COVID 19
2. Fred Collins Semitala: In-service online Inter-Professional Education to healthcare providers at health facilities to improve HIV performance indicators.
3. Catherine Mubita Ngoma: Assessment of Interprofessional Education for Quality Improvement in HIV Care: A Case of University of Zambia School of Nursing Sciences
4. Ian Couper: Opening learning to all – lessons from the experience of running online workshops for SUNSTRIPE
5. Berhanu Elfu Feleke: Survival of Intensive Care Unit Patients among Referral Hospitals in Amhara Region, a Prospective Cohort Study

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8rbCZVRzE4

BREAKOUT 2d:

Topic: Service delivery – enhancing IPE/interventions to improve patient outcomes and health security

Moderators:
Francis Omaswa
Miliard D. Beyene

Presenters:

3. Edward Dassah: Interprofessional education in HIV care among health care students and practitioners in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana
4. Shardrack Wanyina: Posttest Gain Scores among Healthcare Professions following an Interprofessional Education approach for HIV care in Uganda
5. Pillo Chillo: Measuring patient reported outcomes in congestive heart failure using Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire in a tertiary care cardiology clinic in Dar es Salaam

4. Velisha Perumal-Pillay: An evaluation of the implementation of STGs/EMLs at public sector healthcare institutions in South Africa

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYclU9seEw

PLENARY 4: Service delivery – enhancing IPE/interventions to improve patient outcomes and health security

Moderators:
Judy Khanyola
Quentin Eichbaum

Panelists:
Petra Brysiewicz:
Nursing education and practice -The African Trajectory

Deborah Von Zinkernagel:
STrengthening Interprofessional Education to Improve HIV care Across Africa (STRIPE HIV)

Alex Coutinho:
The impact of HIV research on service delivery

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn33HYRvzqw (Pleanry 4, Closing Plenary and Awards Ceremony)

CLOSING PLENARY AND AWARDS CEREMONY

Abigail Kazembe - President
Georgina Yeboah - Executive Dirctor AFREhealth