Working Group on Tropical Pediatrics

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Society for Tropical Pediatrics and International Child Health eV
(GTP)
purpose Network of doctors in paediatrics and other specialties, health scientists and nurses who are committed to the quality of preventive and curative pediatric care in countries with limited resources
Chair: Carsten Kruger
Establishment date: 1983
Seat : Ahlen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Website: https://globalchildhealth.de

The Society for Tropical Pediatrics and International Children's Health (GTP) eV was founded in 1983 as a working group of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine and has been a registered non-profit association since 2003. The original name - Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Tropicalpädiatrie (ATP) - was changed in 2015 in order to better reflect the focus of the specialist society - child health issues beyond the field of tropical medicine.

The working group is committed to both scientific and practical clinical work in the field of tropical pediatric problems and international child health. Cooperation partners include the German Society for Pediatrics , the German Institute for Medical Mission , the Forum for International Health and the Medical Mission Institute in Würzburg. The annual meetings with several hundred participants and speakers etc. a. from the World Health Organization , the Society for Technical Cooperation and the Bernhard Nocht Institute are aimed at specialist audiences. They have been repeatedly funded by the German Research Foundation. The speakers included Andreas Buro and Uschi Eid . The working group offers courses for physicians and healthcare professionals on pediatrics in the tropics. a. the director of Doctors of the World Germany gave a lecture. Members of the working group appear, for example, at specialist congresses, contribute to specialist books and take part in the Forum on Global Issues on the subject of "Global Health" organized by the Federal Foreign Office .

history

The working group emerged in 1989 from within the framework of the “Pediatrics in the Third World” commission of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine , which was founded in the early 1980s . It has been a registered, non-profit association since 2003. The seat is in Ahlen.

aims

  • Improving children's health in resource-poor countries
  • Education and training in the field of tropical pediatrics and international child health
  • Research in the field of tropical pediatrics and international child health
  • Maintaining a network of paediatricians who are committed to the quality of preventive and curative pediatric care in resource-poor countries
  • Mediation of contact and competence partners for tropical paediatrics and international child health for other societies and sending organizations in Germany and internationally

Else Kröner-Fresenius Prize for Medical Development Cooperation 2016

In 2016, the GTP was awarded the Else Kröner-Fresenius Prize for Medical Development Cooperation endowed with 100,000 euros. The Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung selected the GTP project “Pediatric specialist training in Tanzania: Sustainable reduction in child mortality through qualified health workers” from among 160 submitted applications and recognized it for its exemplary concept, its sustainability and its importance for the health care of children and Young people in Tanzania. The laudatory speech was given by Auma Obama , a sister of US President Barack Obama . In 2006, Christian Schmidt initiated a three-year pediatric specialist training course while working at the Bugando Medical Center, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Mwanza / Tanzania. Together with other GTP members, a practical curriculum was developed, which was approved by the university and the state authorities in the same year. At that time there were only 56 pediatricians serving over 17 million children across the country; a fee-based academic specialist training (Master of Medicine) was previously only possible at two other universities ( Moshi and Dar es Salaam ). By 2016, more than 25 paediatricians had been trained, all of whom work in the country. At the Bugando Medical Center itself, 11 trained pediatricians work there. This program was able to effectively counteract the brain drain and the loss of talent . In the meantime the management has passed into Tanzanian hands; the GTP supports pediatric training with lecturers from Germany. The expansion of specialist training to the University of Dodoma has been designed on the model of Mwanza, is already accredited and will also be supported by German lecturers from the GTP group. Lecturers from other universities in Tanzania and the neighboring countries Kenya , Malawi and Uganda are to be increasingly included.

Endowed Professorship for Global Child Health

In 2017, the first professorship for global child health in Germany was advertised at the University of Witten-Herdecke on the initiative of the GTP. The endowed professorship was originally advertised for three years and has set itself the following goals: Establishing scientific work in the field of global child health, which goes beyond research on individual clinical pictures and covers the topic holistically, bundling the expertise already available in the country at a university institution and Collaboration with partner institutes, creation and expansion of curricula on or with the topic of global child health, training and further education of students (Master, PhD), development of e-learning modules. Furthermore, the aim is to network interest groups (student initiatives, specialist working groups, individual persons, etc.) in cooperation on the topic of global child health and the planning and implementation of international research projects as well as the creation and implementation of courses to prepare medical professionals for foreign assignments. Last but not least, the international exchange of knowledge on the topic of global child health is to be promoted in the form of professional work abroad for German and international medical professionals and politicians and the general public are to be informed about global child health, migrant and refugee medicine. The Friede Springer Foundation was able to be won over for the financing.

In October 2017, Ralf Weigel was appointed for a five-year term to research and teach about health care and the holistic well-being of children. “Access to health care is very unevenly distributed across the globe, even in individual countries. My main concern is the question: How can you change that? ”Is how he describes his field of work. Weigel wants to place his research at the level of primary health care, where there is almost always the greatest need and the greatest poverty. In many African countries it is often community health workers, i.e. semi-skilled workers, who take care of the care in the villages. Europe has more doctors, but here too there are deficits in care. "In all countries there are people who are disadvantaged, and often it is also their children who get to feel the old saying that 'being poor makes you sick'", says Weigel. During his specialist training in paediatrics at the Charité Berlin, Weigel worked in the HIV children's outpatient department and completed short stays abroad in India and Nigeria. In 2002 he went to Malawi for eight years, where he worked as a doctor but also as an advisor to the Malawian Ministry of Health. Before being called to Herdecke, he was in charge of postgraduate programs at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Foundation for international child health of the DGKJ (formerly Hermann Mai Foundation)

The Hermann Mai Foundation was founded in 1983 from the assets of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine and is looked after by the board of the ATP. The foundation supports the preparation of doctors for activities to promote the health of children in the Third World, as well as projects that serve the direct prophylaxis and therapy of common health disorders in poor countries and the training of local doctors and health workers. In 2017 the foundation was renamed the “Foundation for International Child Health of the DGKJ (formerly Hermann Mai Foundation)” after Hermann Mai's entanglements during the Nazi era became known. The preamble now reads: “The DGKJ established a foundation in 1983 that aims to support child health care in developing countries. She established this foundation after the pediatrician Prof. Dr. Hermann Mai, who also after his retirement as director of the university children's clinic in Münster / Westf. worked temporarily with Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene / Gabon, and for whom tropical paediatrics was a particular concern. The foundation was renamed in 2017 after recent research showed that Hermann Mai actively supported the Nazi ideology. In particular, Hermann Mai's active role in procedures for the forced sterilization of women and men must be seen as medical misconduct and must also be remembered. "

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Healthy Children in One World ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Website of the Tropical Pediatrics Working Group ( Memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Website of the Medical Mission Institute Würzburg ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Scientists advise on tropical medicine in Würzburg , Merkur-online.de of January 21, 2008
  6. ↑ Stephan Nolte : Migranten - in Deutschland und Elsewhere , in: Kinder- und Jugendarzt 2014, pp. 87f.
  7. ↑ a b c Press release of the University of Giessen from January 17, 2000 in the Information Service Science
  8. ↑ a b Stephan Nolte: Malaria, HIV and other problems of global child health , in: Pediatrician 2011, p. 207
  9. ↑ Report from the 32nd Annual Meeting 2014 ( Memento from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Dpa report on the 32nd annual conference in 2014
  11. ↑ DFG press release No. 6/2008
  12. ↑ DFG supports congresses and conferences in January 2002 ( Memento from April 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Information Service Science
  13. ^ Press release from the University of Giessen from January 23, 2009 in the Science Information Service
  14. ^ Medicus Mundi Switzerland. In: medicusmundi.ch. September 12, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Website of the Medical Mission Institute Würzburg ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ Internet site of Doctors of the World
  17. ^ Josef Kloppenborg: Humanitarian Aid: Wanting to help is not enough , Deutsches Ärzteblatt 1998; 95 (6)
  18. ^ List of authors in the DGPI Handbook Infections in Children and Adolescents
  19. ^ Conference report of the Federal Foreign Office on the 23rd Global Issues Forum on January 18, 2009
  20. ↑ a b website of the German Society for Tropical Surgery ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ http://friedespringerstiftung.de
  22. ↑ https://www.uni-wh.de/gesundheit/department-fuer-humanmedizin/lehrstuehle-institute-und-zentren/stiftungsprofessur-fuer-globale-kindergesundheit/ accessed on July 22, 2018
  23. ↑ Sascha Topp: History as an argument in post-war medicine: Forms of visualization of National Socialist euthanasia between politicization and historiography . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013: page 153
  24. ↑ https://www.dgkj.de/unsere-arbeit/projekte-fuer-die-kindergesundheit/stiftung-fuer-internationale-kindergesundheit/die-stiftung-fuer-internationale-kindergesundheit-der-dgkj/ accessed on July 20 2018