The GENA FOUNDATION – MEDICAL PROGRAMS:

The Gena Foundation is working on projects to deploy mobile health clinics throughout Southern Sudan, Southern Kordufan, Nuba Mountain Region, and Internally Displaced Person (IDPs) camps in Sudan. The mission of the mobile clinics is to improve access for health care and to deliver screening and vaccinations of diseases such as Malaria and HIV/AIDS and to provide health education for the community in the area and for preventable diseases to the millions of Sudanese who live in small towns and villages where they have no access to medical care.  

Malaria is the most important parasitic disease of humans. It is a protozoan infection of the red blood cells transmitted by the bite of a female anopheline mosquito. The word “malaria” comes from Italian and means “bad air”. As in the old days, the disease was thought to derive from marshes. Charles Laveran (1880) discovered the parasite in red blood cells, but it was not until 1897 that Ronald Ross identified the anopheles mosquito as the vector of human malaria. Both Laveran and Ross received the Nobel Prizes for their discovery. 

The Gena Foundation has deployed many successful medical missions to Sudan.  

Please contact the GENA Foundation Medical Program Director for more information.