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ANNSI scientific bulletin, issue (3) Autumn 2018

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SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN

Featuring Research Articles Across African Countries

Special points of interest:

 The International Statistical Classification
of Diseases and Related Health Problems
 Nursing Now global campaign (2018-2020),

Inside this issue:

Turn conference presenta- Share your Articles
tions into journal articles

research in African coun- Our mission of the African Novice Nurses and Students Initiative
tries Scientific Bulletin is “to publish and disseminate scientifically rig-

The International Statistical orous public health information in the field of Nursing profession
Classification
of Diseases and Related which are of global health concern that enables policy-makers, re-

Health Problems searchers and nurse practitioners to be more effective in the patient

And more …. care ; it aims to improve health and wellbeing, especially among
disadvantaged populations” The Bulletin welcomes a variety of re-

search articles from different African countries from both novice

nurses and student nurses.

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uting a newsletter might be to write about a variety of topics
sell your product or service, the but try to keep your articles “To catch the reader's
key to a successful newsletter is short. attention, place an
making it useful to your readers.
Much of the content you put in interesting sentence or
A great way to add useful con- your newsletter can also be used quote from the story
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This story can fit 100-150 words. internally, you might comment or top customers or vendors. picture or graphic.
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in newsletters is virtually end- Sales figures or earnings will
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Sudanese Nursing And Midwifery Stu- Regional Report
dents Against FGM 2018

Regional Report 2018 The percentage of the institutional delivery is
27.7%, skilled attendant at delivery 77.5% , and
Sudanese Nursing Students federation Camping only 62.8% get antenatal care during pregnancy,
Against FGM in collaboration with World Health also the MICS report only 26.6% of all delivers get
Orgnaizition and Midwifery schools in Sudan To postnatal visits for mother checkup and 27.7% For
De-Medicalize FGM Practices in Sudan Newborn.

SUDAN is one of the largest countries in Afri- The MICS also report 11.9% of marriages before
the age of 15, and 38% before age of 18 also 21.7%
ca and Arab World, with big bicultural Diversity, of the population between ages of 15-19 is marred.
Ethnic and Values are the most different from And related to FGM 40.9% of all women approved
some place to another within the same State or that (FGM should continues), 86.6% of all females
district. between the age of 15-49 years are undergoing any
form of FGM, and 31.5% of all girls between age
Statistics of population Show 39.5 million of 0-14 years undergone any form of FGM.
Percentage of people age 15-49 years who have
,(National survey 2014) 52% of them are black, 39% Ar- heard of AIDS 74.8%, Percentage of
ab, 6% Beja, 2% foreign, and the riming 1% are young people age 15-24 years who correctly identi-
Composed of other ethnicities. There are more fy ways of preventing the sexual transmission of
than 55 different Trips, ONLY 33% of all popu- HIV 8.5%, who reject major misconceptions about
lation live in cites or towns and the rest of 57% HIV transmission K
are rural residents. The Health Expenditure
11.6%, maternal mortality Ratio 311 per 100
000 live birth.

Maternal health in Sudan:

According to the MICS the Multiple Indictors
Cluster survey 2014 'The Most recent and ac-
credited Survey up-To-Day', The percent of pop-
ulation Under Age of 5 was 15.2% , also Under
Age of 18 was 50.6%, and the percentage of the
women age 15-45 with at least one live birth in
the last 2 years were 30.7% of all women.
The percentage of women age 20-24 years who
had at least one birth live before the age of 18 is
21.5%, also the percentage of women age 15-49
years currently married who are using (or whose
partners is using) a (modern or traditional) Con-
traceptive method were 12.2%,and there is
26.6% unmet need!.

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Sudanese Nursing And Midwifery Regional Report
Students Against FGM 2018

reporting that they received counseling on HIV

during antenatal care Percentage of women age 15-

49 years who had a live birth in the last 2 years and

received antenatal care during the pregnancy of
their most recent birth, reporting that they were of-

fered and accepted an HIV test during antenatal

care and received their results

Knowledge of mother-to-child transmission of Sudanese Nursing students Federation
HIV Percentage of people age 15-49 years who Plan of The Next 5years related to mater-
correctly identify all three means of mother-to- nal health in Sudan:
child transmission of HIV were 28.4%
We in SNSF realized that nursing are key factor to
Towards people living with HIV Percentage of improving health as General, and maternal and
people age 15-49 years expressing accepting atti- child health as specific domain, also we noted that
tudes on all four questions toward people living the reproductive and sexual live is sensitive to be
with HIV 7.9% People who know where to be discussed in our own communities, although Nurs-
tested for HIV Percentage of people age 15-49 ing and Midwife have the socially approved voice
years who state knowledge of a place to be tested to talk about the sexuality and reproduction more
for HIV Women 17.0% Percentage of people widely than any health care provider.
age 15-49 years who have been tested for HIV in
the last 12 months and who know their results
1.6%, Percentage of young people age 15-24
years who have had sex in the last 12 months,
who have been tested for HIV in the last 12
months and who know their results Women 1.2%
Percentage of women age 15-49 years who had a
live birth in the last 2 years and received antena-
tal care during the pregnancy of their most recent
birth,

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Sudanese Nursing And Midwifery Regional Report
Students Against FGM 2018

So 3 month ago we planned for 5 years plane we We defied the Campaign into 3 major parts; the
called it The N&MRE plan, witch well be the National training part, the Local offices training
nuclear of The newest standing committee part and the Community outreach part, each one of
SCORA and SCORA stand for the Standing them have its special requirements, tasks and objec-
committee on Reproductive Including HIV infec- tives, we did part one by training 25 National Mas-
tion and AIDSyndrome , The mean Target of this ter Trainers on FGM package, every one of them
plan is to achieve the Health For all strategy of equipped by the essential knowledge to train other
Sudan , and to help in implementing the national trainees at his local level, the deferent 25 trainer
Reproductive health strategies as well as empow- were representing 14 deferent faculty or School of
ering nursing and midwifery students. Nursing , and each one of them take his task to start
the local training.
The Plan including Five Campaigns, There ex- We expect to start part 2 at the mid of October m
change plans and about Thousand training ses- and to achieve its targets by the first week of Janu-
sions for the deferent students ary, then we will start part3 which the most effec-
tive part of this campaign.
FGM Campaign:

Last week we launched our first campaign to
achieve our plan under the title of (Nursing and
midwifery students against FGM Campaign), and
this project itself need 6 month to be accom-
plished.

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Sudanese Nursing And Midwifery Regional Report
Students Against FGM 2018

Our Partners: The Newest partnership we have got through this
project also our partnership with MedSIN Sudan
The most beautiful thing about the work at this the Medical Students International network at Su-
field in Sudan is the collaboration, and commit- dan, and mainly their SCORAngeles team who pro-
ment from all! vide the consultation every time and in every single
Every one acting hardly, honestly, and within the action, they really work hardly and with great pas-
Expected values to achieve the National plan of sion with us, in the National training program.
action, you easily note that every single person
within the system is oriented about the im- Other Actions that directly related
portance of his work toward achieving MCH in to The Campaign:
Sudan.
Our first partner was The World Health Organi- In collaboration with the Federal minster of health,
zation via their office in Sudan , they provide the 10 of our best students attend the National Work-
technical support and supervision in planning shop To Modify the FGM De-medical-zing curricu-
and organizing our action to be most effective lum for the Federal minster of higher education,
and Result beads actions as well as providing the also we participated in the MCH campaign of the
financial support from the DIFD UK. medical students by getting the basic workshop on
FGM abandonment and we reached the community
within their campaign for purposes of getting the
exposure and to have more lessons from their expe-
rience witch extend for more than 60 years in the
field.
Finally our national director of the FGM De-
medical-zing campaign Hassan Khalid Aburas, had
presented a speech about the family planning at the
closing ceremony of MCH campaign of the medi-
cal students, representing SNSF and Novice and
Students Nursing.

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2018
Sudanese Nursing And Midwifery
Students Against FGM

Conclusion: Reported by
Mr. Hassan Khalid Aburas
Sudan is one of the most affected countries- NORP-SNSF
worldwide- by The maternal health and reproduc- National Director of the FGM campaign
tive issues, with high maternal mortality rates and Sudan representative at ANNSI
under five deaths, huge child marriage prevalence's, E-mail: h.kh.aburas2gmail.com
and low health expenditures. Phone:+249927596317
NGOs acting very hardly to prevent the expected
outcomes of this issue in collaboration with the
governmental programs and agencies.
SNSF tacked apart within this movement with 5
years plan , and already started to implement it,
FGM campaign is the beginning we expect more at
the filed of HIV/AIDS , Maternal health and family
planning , and so many others

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2018
Sudanese Nursing And Midwife-
ry Students Against FGM

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Challenges and opportunities nurses Article

experienced to turn conference presenta-
tions into journal articles

Abstract Conclusions

Background Contextual factors such as offering parallel pro-
grammes, supplementing an insufficient income
Nurses need to build their profes- with consultation work, lack of time and incentives,
sional knowledge base through the and lack of mentors to guide novices through the
publication of research findings in complex process of writing and submitting articles
scientific journals. Substantial may be more pronounced in low and middle-
preparation goes into the prepara- income countries than in developed countries. A
tion of a conference presentation, which could form comparison between the north-south rate of con-
the basis of a subsequent publication. verting conference presentations into journal arti-
cles may provide further light on this topic
Results
Read more on
The majority of nurses (78,3%) who attended and/
or presented papers at an international conference https://www.elsevier.com
had at least a master’s degree and are therefore no
strangers to research. However, only 46 individuals
reported 70 publications that derived from confer-
ence presentations over the last 5 years. Positive
feedback from reviewers and receiving incentives
were identified, among others, as motivators while
common inhibitors were the complexity related to
the writing, submitting and reviewing processes as
well as the lack of dedicated time.

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Clinical nursing and midwifery African nursing
research in African countries:
a scoping review.

REVIEW METHODS:

Abstract Research was included if it was conducted by nurs-
es, included data obtained in African countries or
Background: regions within the African continent, published in a
peer-reviewed journal with an abstract, and included
Globally, the nursing shortage has been deemed a patient outcomes. Abstracts were independently re-
crisis, but African countries have been hit hardest. viewed for inclusion by two authors. The following
Therefore, it is of utmost importance nurses use data were extracted: countries of publication and
the best available evidence and that nursing re- study, study type and design, journal, language, and
search is targeted to address gaps in the evidence. topics of research. Gaps in the literature were identi-
To achieve this, an understanding of what is cur- fied.
rently available and identification of gaps in clini-
cal nursing research is critical. RESULTS:

OBJECTIVES: Initially, 1091 papers were identified with a final
sample of 73 articles meeting inclusion criteria.
We performed a scoping review of existing litera- Studies used 12 designs, were published in 35 jour-
ture to assess clinical nursing research conducted nals published in five countries (including two Afri-
in all African countries over the past decade, iden- can countries); 29% of the research was published
tify gaps in clinical nursing and midwifery re- in a single journal (Curatonis). Research was mostly
search, determine whether they match with health qualitative (57%) and included twenty countries in
priorities for countries, and define priorities for Africa (38%). There were 12 major topics of study,
regional clinical nursing research agendas to im- most often midwifery/maternal/child health (43%),
prove health outcomes. patient experiences (38%), and human immunodefi-
ciency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted infections
DESIGN: (STIs) (36%).

This is a scoping review of published clinical CONCLUSIONS:
nursing research conducted in African countries.
Areas most often studied were associated with fund-
DATA SOURCES: ing sources (e.g., a large influx of funds for HIV-
related research). Major and common health care
Systematic searches of literature published be- problems in African countries (e.g. infectious dis-
tween January 01, 2004 and September 15, 2014 ease other than HIV, and non communicable diseas-
were performed in PubMed, Medline, CINHAL, es such as malnutrition, diarrheal disease, hyperten-
and Embase. sion and diabetes) were not subjects of the pub-
lished literature, indicating a clear gap between
health care needs and problems and the focus of the
majority of clinical nursing research. Additionally,
the shortage of doctor ally prepared nurses may
contribute to the lack of clinical nursing and mid-
wifery research in African countries.

Read on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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The International Statistical Classification

of Diseases and Related Health Research
Problems (ICD)

Why is the ICD important What shelf life will ICD-11 have?

There are few truer snapshots of a country’s wellbe- The reason for revising the code every decade or so
ing than its health statistics. While broad economic is this: countries can apply to develop their own ad-
indicators such as Gross Domestic Product may skew aptations. They are not allowed to change the basic
impressions of individual prosperity, data on disease code, but they can add detail – essentially producing
and death reveal how a population is truly faring. more granular versions tailored to their health sys-
The International Statistical Classification of Diseas- tems and circumstances.
es and Related Health Problems (ICD) is the bedrock Countries that create bespoke versions can then sell
for health statistics. It maps the human condition those to other countries, training them in its use.
from birth to death: any injury or disease we encoun- Practitioners of specialities such as dermatology or
ter in life − and anything we might die of − is coded. mental health may want to produce their own adapta-
Not only that, the ICD also captures factors influenc- tions too.
ing health, or external causes of mortality and mor- As WHO tweaks the ICD through the years to take
bidity, providing a holistic look at every aspect of into account new understandings of medicine, coun-
life that can affect health. tries are expected to follow suit. Many do not, how-
These health statistics form the basis for almost eve- ever.
ry decision made in health care today − understand- Every year, WHO takes slightly incompatible data
ing what people get sick from, and what eventually from countries and makes them comparable.
kills them, is at the core of mapping disease trends Over the years though, version control slips too far
and epidemics, deciding how to programme health and several slightly varying versions appear all over
services, allocate health care spending, and invest in the world. Thus, a new version becomes necessary to
R&D. reset the system.
ICD codes can have enormous financial importance, ICD-11, however, has been produced electronically
since they are used to determine where best to invest and therefore should act more as a living document
increasingly scant resources. In countries such as the to which everyone has access. Its agility should en-
USA, meanwhile, ICD codes are the foundation of sure considerable longevity.
health insurance billing, and thus critically tied up Read more on
with health care finances.

www.who.int

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Nursing Now

Nursing Now a three-year global campaign The campaign is based on the findings of
(2018-2020), aims to improve health by raising the Triple Impact report. The report con-
the profile and status of nursing worldwide. cluded that as well as improving health
Run in collaboration with the World Health Or- globally, empowering nurses would contrib-
ganization and the International Council of ute to improved gender equality – as the
Nurses, Nursing Now seeks to empower nurs- vast majority of nurses are women – and
es to take their place at the heart of tackling build stronger economies.
21st Century health challenges and maximize
their contribution to achieving Universal Health
Coverage
The campaign will focus on five core areas:
ensuring that nurses and midwives have a
more prominent voice in health policy-making;

The campaign is being run as a pro-
gramme of the Burdett Trust for Nursing,
an independent charitable trust based in
the UK. The Campaign Board includes indi-
viduals from 16 countries alongside repre-
sentatives from the International Council of
Nurses and the Burdett Trust for Nursing
as well as the Director of WHO’s Health
Workforce Department, Jim Campbell. The
campaign is co-chaired by Lord Nigel
Crisp, co-chair of the UK All-Party Parlia-
mentary Group on Global Health, and Pro-
fessor Sheila Tlou, Co-Chair of the Global
HIV Prevention Coalition.

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