Dr Nnenna IHEBUZOR on the right with the facilitator Dr Claire Rwiyereka and the village chief of the course in traditional dress Dr Francis KIIO.

During the 36th PBF course in Mombasa last April, SINA Health welcomed the 1000th PBF course participant.

It was Dr Nnenna IHEBUZOR, Director of the NPHCDA in Abuja Nigeria.

Since 2007, when the first PBF course was organised in Katana DRC, SINA Health trained 1009 participants. The main partners were Cordaid the Netherlands, HDP Rwanda, BEST Benin and several governments. We thank the organisations that financed the courses such as in particular the World Bank, Cordaid, EGPAF, WHO, KFW, Belgium Cooperation, UNICEF and UNFPA as well as sometimes individuals.

Courses are not boring – Limbé Cameroon

169 participants came from the DR of Congo, 118 from Cameroon, 68 from Burundi, 49 respectively from Benin and Central African Republic, 40 from Kenya, 30 from Zambia, 27 from the Netherlands, 21 from Tanzania, 19 from Afghanistan. They came from 43 countries worldwide. 23% were female and 77% male.

941 participants did the final exam of 30 multiple choice questions. The average score was 79% and 15 participants obtained the special honours of 100%. 23.8% obtained a distinction of 90% or more. 3% of the participants did not achieve the cut-off point of 55% correct answers and therefore obtained a certificate of participation instead of a certificate of merit.

Widah – Benin

An increasing number of courses are country specific such as last January in Uganda, last March in Burkina Faso and planned in July for the Republic of Congo and the first middle east course in Amman mainly for participants from Yemen in October.

The next open French spoken course will be in Cotonou from June the 16th and the next English spoken course will be from August 18th in Mombasa.