Academic staff from the School of Nursing and Midwifery are part of the LINKS project that has been based at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital since 2007.
Lusaka Brighton Link is a project between University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Lusaka, Zambia, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust and Brighton and Sussex Medical School. All of this project’s current work is mapped to Millennium Development Goals and health needs in Zambia. Dr Shirley Bach and Nita Muir visited Zambia for a scoping exercise and partnership development in 2008. This visit was funded via partnership with the Link and through the Southern African Scholarship from the University of Brighton.
Two nurse educators visited in 2009 and during this time a successful application was made to Education Partnerships In Africa to fund a continuing professional nursing project in Zambia focusing on critical care nursing and improving information literacy in nurses. This is currently being supported in Lusaka and is due to complete in 2011.
These partnerships are currently supporting the wider Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance and the wider work of the Tropical Health and Education Trust.
Other local current nursing developments in Zambia involve HIV education and mentorship, and developing the child health curriculum.
