UKZN’s African Paediatric Fellowship Programme (APFP) is building sustainable multidisciplinary child health capacity for Africa. The APFP equips doctors with the specialist and sub-specialist skills and knowledge they need through a complementary fellowship scheme. The fellowships are delivered through a collaborative arrangement between UKZN’s Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, paediatric sub-specialties at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH), and General Paediatrics at the UKZN Teaching Hospitals complex.

The Discipline’s curricula and practice-based learning are tailored to address the child health priorities and capacity-building needs identified by the University’s African partner hospitals and provincial and national health departments. Fellows return to their home countries with new skills, knowledge and qualifications and go on to lead important developments in child health systems and services throughout Africa.