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The Kenya Association of Family Physicians(KAFP) welcomes you to the 8th WONCA Africa Region Conference in Nairobi Kenya from 5th- 7th June 2024. Register and submit your abstract. Subsidized registration fee available for young doctors and doctors in training.
Conference website: https://kafp.or.ke/

Happy World Family Doctors Day!

We had a wonderful event listening to Dr. Mrs Ajumobi share her rich experiences about Family Doctors being the heart of healthcare.

Watch here 👇🏽

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See a snapshot of women family doctors who pioneered WWPWFM and made invaluable contributions within the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA).

We say a big thank you to them!

Happy International Women’s Day!

Every woman counts so embrace equity.

Be kind to women always.

The WWPWFM Chair, Dr. Elizabeth Reji is featured in the Global Family Doctor news as she speaks on the need to embrace equity as we approach the International Women’s Day 2023. “There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise” she says. In this article, Dr Reji says thank you to all female family doctors for their immense contributions and dedication towards clinical practices especially within women's health and education.
Read more…https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/News/WWPWFMThereisnoforcemorepowerfulthanawomandeterminedtorise.aspx

WWPWFM Africa’s Treasurer, Dr Mercy Nafula Wanjala facilitating a discussion at the Rural Family Medicine Café Abuja Edition titled “The Role of African Health Care Students and young professionals in pandemic preparedness and response”. AfriWon Renaissance

Mercy is the Rural Seeds Ambassador, Africa Region. Learn more…
https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/News/RuralSeedsAfricaatWONCAAfricaConference2022.aspx

Announcing WONCA’s award of Excellence in Health Care; the Global WONCA Five-Star Doctors 2022...

Wonca Working Party on Women & Family Medicine hereby celebrate the WONCA Africa Regional winner - Dr Modupe Martha-Alice Ladipo (Nigeria)
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CONGRATULATIONS! We are proud of you!

Other awardees include:

WONCA Asia Pacific Region – Prof Meng-Chih Lee (Taiwan)
WONCA East Mediterranean Region – Dr Mohammed Tarawneh (Jordan)
WONCA Europe Region – Dr Philippe Binder (France)
WONCA Iberoamericana – CIMF – Dr Julio Ceitilin (Argentina)
WONCA South Asia - Kanapathipillai Sriranjan (Sri Lanka)

Learn more about the qualities of a 5-star doctor. 🥇
You may be the next awardee! 😃

https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/News/Discoverthe2022WONCAfive-stardoctors.aspx

Merry Christmas from all of us at WWFWFMA!

Enjoy a prosperous New 2023!

The WWPWFMA Preconference featured three brilliant women doctors who shared with us how they have excelled at work and life. We also had courtesy visits from the WONCA World President, Dr Anna Stavdal, the WONCA CEO, Dr Harris Lygidakis and the WONCA Africa Regional President, Dr Dan Abubakar during the Preconference.

It was a wonderful time during the Fireside Wisdom at the WONCA Africa Regional conference in Abuja 2022. We did get nuggets of wisdom that warmed our hearts and motivate us to excel as women leaders.

This event is welcome to Women who are Family doctors.

Happening during the Regional WONCA Africa Conference, Abuja 2022.

Join us this Saturday 17th September 2022 as we mark World Patient Safety Day: "Medication Safety: Medication without harm"

The WONCA Working Party for Women and Family Medicine (WWPWFM) Africa Region – referred to here as WWPWFMA – has supported and advocated for women family physicians in Africa since 2009.

WWPWFMA held a webinar on May 19th to celebrate World Family Doctors Day. Titled “The Uniqueness of Women Family Doctors: Always There to Care”, it featured three speakers who gave different perspectives on what makes women family doctors unique.

The speakers were:
• Taiwo Soyinka Consultant Family Physician/Deputy Chairman Medical Advisory Committee, Clinical Services, University College Hospital (Nigeria)
• Aramide Oteju Consultant Family Physician, District Clinical Lead, Partners in Health (Sierra Leone)
• Joy Mugambi Consultant Family Physician, VP East/Central/South Africa, Commonwealth Association (Kenya).

The webinar was moderated by Temi Ilori and opened by WONCA President, Dr Anna Stavdal, who spoke about the Working Party and congratulated the Africa region on organizing the webinar to mark the date.

The WWPWFMA Lead, Ajike Oladoyin, then welcomed everyone to the webinar and spoke about the vision and objectives of the WWPWFM. The WWPWFM Chair, Mimi Doohan, and Amanda Barnard, a former Chair, gave goodwill messages, while the WONCA Africa Region Chair, Dan Abubakar, also joined the event.

The first speaker, Dr. Soyinka, kicked off the presentations by approaching the topic from an academic viewpoint, defining family medicine and talking about what makes women family doctors unique. She also spoke of the different roles she has played as a doctor, an academic, an administrator and a home maker.

Dr. Oteju then gave a pictorial overview of her life as a woman family doctor in Sierra Leone.

From being paid with a live chicken and travelling on impassable roads, to eating the harvest from her garden and seeing new projects come alive, she showed the good and the bad of her unique life as a woman family doctor.

Dr. Mugambi took us down memory lane and told the audience how she decided to become a family doctor. She showed the evolution of family medicine in Kenya over more than a decade, from being the only woman resident in her department to the current situation where there appear to be almost equal numbers of men and women.

She also paid tribute to some of the doctors who mentored her, a few of whom – Amanda Barnard, Kate Anteyi and Prof. Gulnaz Mohamoud, the first woman Professor of Family Medicine in East Africa – were in attendance.

It was a well-attended and interesting event - at the peak there were 100 people logged in to the Zoom meeting, with several more watching it live streamed on Facebook. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive.

After the webinar, 40 new potential members joined the WhatsApp group, making it the most successful event to drive membership in the regional group so far.

Ajike Oladoyin
Lead, WWPWFM Africa.

https://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/News/WPonWomenFamilyMedicineAfricaHostsWebinartoCelebrateWFDD2022.aspx

Global Family Doctor - WONCA Online WONCA is the World Organization of Family Doctors, with 118 Member Organizations representing over 500,000 family doctors in over 130 countries and territories around the world, and working in partnership with the World Health Organisation.

Coming up in two (2) days! Are you a female family doctor? Come and glean nuggets from passionate family physicians. You will learn how to bring uniqueness into your practice. See you there. 🌹

Coming up to commemorate the Family Doctors Day!

Register for the upcoming WONCA Regional Conference and be part of the WWPWFM Fireplace Wisdom Cafe.



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WWPWFM Fireplace café short Medium WONCA Women Party on Women and Family medicine (WWPWFM) is a working party under World Organization for Family Physicians (WONCA) that aims to promote the ro...

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