About The Project

This 4 week project is a new scheme developed by the Swansea-Gambia Link and Swansea University International Office and is part of the broader Wales for Africa Health Links Network. Ten post-graduate students from the Schools of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences and Arts and Humanities and Media Studies will travel to Gambia to carry out a research project looking at Health in the context of International development. The project aims to consider the inter-dependency between malnutrition and broader environmental and development issues. It will go towards helping the UN Millennium Development Goal paying particular attention to MDG 8 – A global Partnership for Development. The students will work together with students from Gambia University and Medical School to explore the immediate and broader factors that result in malnutrition. To do this they will utilise a case-study methodology, selecting one infant suffering from malnutrition and considering the social, cultural and environmental pathways that have led to the infant's illness.
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Tuesday 13 July 2010

Wales for Africa Annual health conference 2010

(Left to Right) Tomos Watkin, Debbie James, Katherine Devonald, Charlotte Dix (International Office), Lella Nouri, Sr. Rachel Wilson (ABMU Health Board), Lucy Hammond, Dr. David Abankwa (ABMU Health Board), Steve Allen (School of Medicine)

On the 8th July, representatives from Swansea-Gambia Link 2010 continued theire pre-departure research by attending the Wales for Africa Annual health conference at SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff.
The conference involved talks from Welsh Assembly Member John Griffiths on the importance of sustaining the Wales for Africa health links despite the economic downturn, as well as films and interviews with partners across Africa identifying the need and success of such links. Team Gambia (above) were involved in a number of workshops related to the Millennium Development Goals such as Maternal Health (MDG5), End Poverty and Hunger (MDG1), Child Health (MDG 4) and Education (MDG2). This was a great opportunity to meet and obtain valuable input from health workers, government officials, NGO's and other students, and to share ideas and perspectives on how to meet the MDG targets.


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