News Brief
New York City, NY, May 23, 2008
Medicine for Africa, MfA, has entered into a collaborative venture with Medical Knowledge Institute, MKI, based in the Netherlands and headed by Dr. Harold E. Robles. The co-operation is aimed at developing and promoting medical and healthcare information projects, specifically designed for southern Africa, but also destined for any other country that is seeking to improve its country’s healthcare information potentials.
According to the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’, issued by the United Nations (UN) in 1998, at the occasion of its 50th birthday, Article 26 specifies that ‘everyone has the right to education’, which ‘shall be free in its elementary and fundamental stages’. Certainly, the right to get to know one’s own health status, how to protect it, and how to stay healthy, would fall under the heading of ‘elementary and fundamental’ knowledge of life. Education is also the cornerstone of social or economic development of any country, setting the foundation for future well-being and prosperity.
Furthermore, increased awareness of a healthy lifestyle and knowledge of how to protect oneself effectively from becoming the victim of widespread diseases and illnesses has long been acknowledged and known in the medical society, as being one of the best and most efficient ways of conducting ‘prevention’.
It is for this purpose, that MKI and MfA have joined forces, in order to develop and distribute ‘Medical Information Brochures’ (MIB) – the healthcare encyclopedia for everyone! These brochures will be distributed free-of-charge to any citizen of targeted countries, who seeks to obtain basic healthcare information.
MKI and MfA hope to make an important and long-lasting impact – by providing medical and general healthcare information to the medically less educated person, in a manner that can be understood by every man and every woman who seeks to learn more about ways on how to stay healthy, and on how to live a longer and healthier life.
These brochures will also be available upon request to governments, public or private companies, organizations and foundations, who seek to spread basic healthcare information among their citizens, employees or members. Individually designed and personalized brochures can be obtained for a small fee that will ultimately promote the program by itself.
The co-operation between MKI and MfA is aimed at developing and promoting medical and healthcare information projects, specifically designed for southern Africa, but also destined for any other country that is seeking to improve its country’s healthcare information potentials.
If you are interested in finding out more about our MIBs, how you could obtain them, or become part of promoting them, please do not hesitate to contact MKI at info@infomki.org.
Medical Knowledge Institute,MKI, is an international not-for-profit foundation, dedicated to healthcare education and healthcare information as a human right.
MKI's mission is to empower healthcare providers in developing and transitional countries to disseminate programs which are aimed at improving the quality of life, through healthcare education and healthcare information. MKI acts from the premise that healthcare is a human right.
The goal of MKI is to offer a platform for the development of high quality programs with the support of its international faculty and meeting the healthcare development goals of developing and transitional countries.
MKI also serves as the hub of the MKI Global Network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations around the world, implementing a range of initiatives which aim it is to promote and improve the quality of healthcare as a human right.
The Medical Knowledge Institute is based in the Netherlands, and founded by Dr. Harold E. Robles, Founder and President Emeritus of the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, and Dr. Peter J. Bittel, Chairman and CEO of The Futures Health Group.
