Ethiopia

Earlier this month, 15 members of the STREAM community advisory board (CAB) from Addis Ababa took part in a refresher training session run by Dr Mohammed Abseno, trial sub-investigator and coordinator for the St. Peter’s Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital, one of the two STREAM sites in Ethiopia.

That the ETS meeting was able to attract high government officials from the public health and medical sectors as speakers, and was able to draw such a large and interested cross section of physicians and surgeons interested in the problems of lung disease in Ethiopia represents a signal achievement in the history of EATI, now entering its sixth year. 

Vital Strategies’ East Africa Training Initiative (EATI) has made great strides in recent months in its goal to provide medical training to Ethiopian doctors in the area of lung health.  EATI gives state-of-the-art chest medicine training to Ethiopian fellows by recruiting faculty from leading medical schools in Europe and America to teach them in Addis Ababa.