Abstract
The African Journal of Primary Health & Family Medicine welcomes submissions that encourage scholarly exchange between family medicine and primary health care researchers and practitioners across Africa and the developing world, whilst providing a contextual and holistic view of family medicine as practiced across the continent.
Highlights
The following dialogue between six family physicians was used as one of several discussion papers at the Regional Africa WONCA Conference in 2009 and was designed to stimulate debate and dialogue on the nature of Family Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa
Note: This is an edited version of an actual email exchange between March 2009 and June 2009, reproduced with the kind permission of the authors in the interests of debate and dialogue
This is an edited version of an actual email exchange between March and June 2009, edited by the conference convenor, and reproduced with the kind permission of the authors
Summary
The following dialogue between six family physicians was used as one of several discussion papers at the Regional Africa WONCA Conference in 2009 and was designed to stimulate debate and dialogue on the nature of Family Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa. Bob Mash: In most sub-Saharan countries, first-contact primary care is the responsibility of nurses or clinical officers and not doctors or family physicians.
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