Africa has definitely changed my attitude to my job and to life, in a very positive way ; Wales is recognised as a UK leader in establishing links with African countries and helping to train health professionals and improve health services. On the eve of the third Wales for Africa Health Links conference, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley asks members of some of the links how Wales and the NHS is benefiting from these relationships

Western Mail › June 29, 2009

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Professor David Jenkins, a professor of land studies at the University of Glamorgan, has been working with people living in the Namatala slum in Mbale, Uganda, as part of the PONT link with the town.

He said: "I guess it boils down to what we discover about ourselves when we are looking at others and learning about others.

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Africa has definitely changed my attitude to my job and to life, in a very positive way ; Wales is recognised as a UK leader in establishing links with African countries and helping to train health professionals and improve health services. On the eve of the third Wales for Africa Health Links conference, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley asks members of some of the links how Wales and the NHS is benefiting from these relationships

"Some things are quite different but some things are sometimes depressingly, or sometimes thankfully, the same - for example men are dying from Aids rather than going to see doctors.

"It is about the forms of dependency in Uganda and our country; about our paralysis and their resourcefulness.

"Intercultural discourse offers strong possibilities for the development of theory and practice in Wales and Uganda.

"Some differences between Wales and Uganda identify new frontiers for us - for example the need to integr...

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