19 march 2022
4th and 5th year students of the Faculty of Medicine of the Mandume Ya Ndemufayo University (Lubango, Huila) and 3rd and 4th year nursing students of the Cunene Polytechnic Institute (Ondjiva, Cunene) were trained on March 14th and 18th, 2022 respectively, on issues of chronic malnutrition (causes, prevention and treatment) as well as initiated the trainees in good clinical practices. This training is part of the “MuCCUA” trial of the CRESCER project (Mother and Child Interventions for Chronic Undernutrition in Angola: A community cluster and cost-effectiveness trial), and was attended by 35 students, 20 of whom were female.
The training served to motivate and integrate the students into the CRESCER Project, and its main objective was to motivate the students to keep the focus on research on pregnant women and children under five years old in the target municipalities of the project. The students will be part of the research team as direct collaborators, and among their tasks will be collecting operational research data, performing laboratory tests as well as community dialogue together with the ADECOS in the 4 municipalities covered by the project.
