CAPSTONE West Africa

About CAPSTONE West Africa

The CAPSTONE project seeks to address the urgent need to educate and develop a health workforce that can respond to the steady increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan African countries.

This workforce contains doctors, nurses, allied and other health professionals who are specialized in screening, treating and referring patients with NCDs at all levels of the health care system.

Partners in the CAPSTONE Consortium: - Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (UMCU), the Netherlands. (Coordinator) - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi (KNUST), Ghana - University of Ghana (UG), Ghana - University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ghana - University of the Gambia (UTG), The Gambia - Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (ITM), Belgium - Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (UHEI), Germany - Elevate BV, the Netherlands.

The CAPSTONE project has received funding from the European Union's Erasmus+ programme under Grant Agreement number 101128468.

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  Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX UtrechtUtrechtUtrecht, Netherlands