34 African Universities, Medical, Nursing Schools to Teach CDI Strategy
Nairobi, Kenya 16 November 2010 -- Sixteen universities, medical and nursing schools from nine East and Southern African countries have agreed to introduce the Community-Directed Intervention (CDI) strategy in their curricula, as a way of expanding the use of the innovative and cost-effective strategy which encourages community ownership of health care delivery.
The decision taken by vice-chancellors, deans, heads of medical and nursing schools at the just-concluded meeting in Nairobi brings to 34 the number of African universities, medical and nursing teaching institutions that have agreed to teach the CDI strategy. Eighteen (18) similar institutions from twelve (12) countries in Central and Western Africa were the first to initiate the process of adopting the teaching of the CDI approach at a meeting in Abuja, Nigeria in 2009.