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Recent figures in European and American hospitals have shown that an increasing number of patients with malaria and other tropical infections die because the diseases were either diagnosed too late or not at all. These training courses are designed for healthcare professionals who want to improve their clinical skills in tropical medicine and travelers’ health. During the 2 week round-trips participants visit various teaching hospitals, outpatient clinics and research centers in rural and urban areas of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (see itinerary). Tropical medicine experts from Germany and East Africa supervise individual on-site bedside teaching, laboratory manuals (hands-on microscopy on parasites in the blood, stool,
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urine and skin), field excursions and give lectures in English. The curriculum covers the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of the most important tropical infectious diseases. In addition the participants get an insight into the local healthcare systems and explore during field excursions the fantastic scenery and prolific flora (e.g. Artemisia annua for malaria therapy) and fauna (e.g. antelopes: reservoir of African trypanosomaisis) in East Africa.