Primary Care: autonomy and effectiveness

Based on the principal that capacity building leads to increased autonomy and a real ownership of the development process, the current project is aimed at strengthening training and building capacity amongst Sao Tomean healthcare professionals in more underdeveloped areas; granting human, material and financial resources packages to support outdated healthcare centres; stimulating complementary and innovative fundraising and reaching the Millennium Development Goals related with Health by 2015 in Sao Tome and Principe.

The current project is part of the Health for All: Integrated Programme, which also includes the Specialised Care and Telemedicine Project

Beneficiaries: About 769 healthcare professionals and technicians and the entire Sao Tomean population, around 179.506 inhabitants, as users of the National Healthcare System.

Objectives:
Global: Contribute to the consolidation of the National Healthcare System of Sao Tome and Principe by strengthening the provision of healthcare services and granting effectiveness to the MDGs related to health.

Specific: Guarantee the provision of preventive and primary healthcare services in the 7 districts of Sao Tome and Principe by enhancing an efficient management of financial, human and material resources.

ER1: Guarantee technical and material conditions for providing preventive and primary healthcare services at a district level:

  • A1.1 | Acquiring equipment, medication and consumables adequate for providing preventive and primary healthcare services at a district level;
  • A1.2 | Providing integrated healthcare services at a district level

ER2: :Strengthened training and capacity for healthcare professionals

  • A2.1 | Training and capacity building of healthcare professionals and technicians.

ER3: :Guarantee sanitary management capacity at a national and district level:

  • A3.1 | Technical consultancy for drafting a financial and management strategy for healthcare services;
  • A3.2 | Technical advice on strategy;
  • A3.3 | Training and capacity building on planning and management.

ER4: Promote the effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals related with Health issues:

  • A4.1 | Producing an information and awareness raising leaflet disseminated at national level;
  • A4.2 | Carrying out decentralised awareness raising and Health education campaigns.