Non-communicable diseases training: Developing capacity to manage diabetes, obesity and hypertension in West Africa

The Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Training Programme was a 1-year project (2015), sponsored by Pfizer, and delivered by the RCP in partnership with the WACP. The project aimed to reduce the rising burden of diabetes, hypertension and obesity in West Africa by increasing access to specialist physicians who are equipped to accurately diagnose and manage the treatment of these diseases.

Clinical training courses and teaching visits (site-based clinical training) were delivered by members of the RCP who are UK-based consultants or senior physicians, alongside senior faculty of the WACP in Ghana and Nigeria. This project built on the health system strengthening work already delivered by the RCP and the WACP in partnership since 2009, as well as the ongoing Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-6 Partnership for African Clinical Training (MPACT).

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