Over prescription of drugs in Africa [2]

7 October, 2020

Dear Dr. Massimo and CHIFA members,

I too fear, who am I to judge, but if I be allowed, as a lowly medic who has worked in East Africa for over 25 years mostly in education, I would like to thank you for your openness, honesty, and courage, and most of all, hitting the nail more or less right on the head.

With thanks and best regards,

Daniel

CHIFA profile: Daniel Stern is a HIFA Representative and member of the mHIFA WG. He is a member of Uganda MCH TWG. Daniel is Co-founder of the educational NGO Uconnect, and of the Innovation Hub, Hive Colab, and is also Cofounder of ISOC Uganda and Uganda IXP. He is a UN WSA National Expert. His Uconnect team distributes off-line E-Learning content, including Hesperian Health Guides to schools in East Africa since 2008. During his six-years as Lead for Uganda Mobile Monday he regularly organized events with mobile health themes, usually in collaboration with UNICEF’s Uganda team, and their pan African IntraHealth efforts to improve interoperative healthcare systems, both within and between countries, in mHero, such that developer- entrepreneurs’s apps would align with the latest trends by MoH policies. DStern AT Uconnect.org