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Kenya 2011
Tanzania 2011 & 2012
Uganda 2012




Kenya 2011


 
During the 2-week long expedition through Kenya participants travel on tarmac roads (approx. 1500 km) in a comfortable 4 x 4 vehicle with an experienced English speaking driver. The section Nairobi – Mombasa – Nairobi (approx. 1200 km) is by air.


The itinerary

Nairobi – Lake Baringo – Kakamega rainforest – Kisumu – Lake Victoria – Lake Naivasha – Nairobi – Mombasa – Diani Beach – Mombasa – Nairobi.

Field excursions

1.
Prevention and control strategies for Visceral Leishmaniasis in Baringo District.
2.
Bush-walk through Kakamega rainforest: Malaria and the use of traditional medicine (e.g. Artemisia Annua) in the indigenous population.
3.
Walk along the shoreline of Lake Victoria near Kisumu: Schistosomiasis – Prevention and control strategies in a fishing village and inspection of the habitat of fresh water snails.
4.
Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) for children near Nakuru.
5.
Travel medicine for tourists in Ukunda.
6. Dive Medicine: First aid procedures at Diani Beach.
7.
Visit to the Colobus Trust in Diani Beach: The threat of global warming to the flora and fauna in Kenya.
 

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Tanzania 2011 & 2012



Field excursions
1.
Meserani Snake Park: First Aid after bite of poisonous snake.
2.
Flying Medical Service: Flying doctors working in rural areas of Tanzania.
3.
A to Z Textile Medical Center: Production of Olyset®, a unique long-lasting mosquito bednet containing permethrin.
4.
Guided walk to the Hadzabe tribe on the shore of Lake Eyasi, the last bushmans of Tanzania: the use of Traditional Medicine.
5.
Prevention and control of Schistosomiasis in Kinyasini, Zanzibar.
6.
Prevention and control measures against Malaria in Jambiani, a rural community in Zanzibar.
7.
Guided tour to the Jozani Forest Reserve in Zanzibar: Medical Botany.
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  During the 2-week long course through Tanzania the participants travel on tarmac roads and maram roads (approx. 800 km) in comfortable 4 x 4 Land-Cruisers (extended version) with experienced English-speaking drivers. The section Arusha – Zanzibar (approx. 500 km) and Zanzibar – Dar es Salaam (approx. 80 km) is by air.

The itinerary

Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) – Arusha – Magugu – Karatu – Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Olduvai Gorge – Karatu – Lake Eyasi – Karatu – Lake Manyara – Arusha – Zanzibar – Dar es Salaam International Airport.
 

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Uganda 2012


 
During the 2-week long expedition through Uganda the participants travel on tarmac roads (approx. 1400 km) in a comfortable 4 x 4 vehicle with an experienced English-speaking driver.


The itinerary

Entebbe – Kampala – Jinja – Kampala – Mbarara – Queen Elisabeth National Park – Fort Portal – Kampala – Entebbe.

Field excursions

1.
Medical botany in Mabira Rain Forest.
2.
Prevention and control strategies (trapping of Tse-Tse flies) of African Trypanosomiasis in a rural area in Buikwe.
3.
Prevention and control strategies of Schistosomiasis in the Bunyaruguru Crater Lakes.
4.
Prevention and control strategies of Onchocerciasis in Kamwenge District.
5.
Visit of the Tooro Botanical Garden, where Artemisia Annua and other herbal plants are grown for the treatment of Tropical Infectious Diseases
6.
Prevention and control strategies of Malaria: Bednet studies in Kyenjojo District.
 

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