HEAL AFRICA, health: preventing diabetic retinopathy

On November 29, 2022, Heal Africa organized a consultation for diagnosis, free voluntary screening and prevention of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic patients followed in the diabetes clinic of Heal Africa Hospital as well as other people with diabetes in the city of Goma were the beneficiaries of this activity. It involved 78 patients, of whom six […]

Justice for Survivors

HEAL Africa, support to justice: 24 other judgements passed, regardingsexual violence casesOn November 18, 2022, the verdict falls: 18 judgments to sentences ranging from 10 to 20years of penal servitude and payment of fines, 3 judgments of acquittal, 3 files referred to theordinary roll and one file renewed because of judgment already rendered. This is […]

Australian Diplomat, Trystan Peckover, visits HEAL Africa.

Australian diplomat, Trystan Peckover, Consul from Australia, has the taken time to visit our hospital and our training and research program. Thanks to our Australian counterpart, AusHEAL, and the outreach efforts of Gwen and Dr. Neil, for bringing the issues of Eastern Congo into the spotlight, through health. This is not the first time Mr. […]

Transforming men and masculinity

TUISHI AMANI: Celebrating the transformation of masculinity 164 couples took part in the closing ceremony of the 15-week therapy groups held by HEAL Africa as part of the implementation of the project “Involvement of men in the maintenance of security and stability in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo”. With support of […]

New Medical Residents Arrive

This week, HEAL Africa welcomed 15 new Resident Doctors from the University of Goma. They have come for specialization in different fields: Internal Medicine (4 candidates), Pediatrics (3 candidates), Internal Medicine (4 candidates) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (4 candidates). Three of the candidates are women. The new residency positions are made possible through a collaboration […]

We Are Safe

Hello Friends, On the evening of Saturday, 22 May 2021, around 7:00 pm,  Mount Nyiragongo erupted. HEAL Africa Hospital was not effected by the lava. Along the streets of Goma, the smell of sulfur was evident. Then the sky turned red. Mount Nyiragongo suddenly erupted. Lava flowed towards Rwanda and into Goma’s city limits, a population of about […]

USAID, First Visitor Since COVID Travel Restrictions Began

Last Friday, Feb. 5, HEAL Africa welcomed the Deputy Mission Director of USAID in DRC, Alisa Mautner Cameron. The primary purpose of her visit was to check on the activities conducted by the TUSHINDE Project, in partnership with IMA World Health, and implemented by HEAL Africa. The Tushinde Project uses community based methods to respond and […]