Conakry : 50 HIV health-care workers trained on the usefulness and interpretation of viral load tests' results
7 April 2017
From the 21-22 & 23-24th of March 2017, Solthis team in Guinea organized in partnership with the National Program for Health Care and Prevention of STIs / HIV / AIDS (PNPSCP), two training sessions for 50 HIV care actors (Doctors, nurses, biologists, pharmacists and psychosocial agents) on the usefulness and interpretation of viral load tests’ results. The training sessions were organized under the OPP-ERA project-phase 2 funded by UNITAID and implemented by a... Read more
Launching of the epidemiological Surveillance Network, RIPOST, in 6 West African Countries
6 April 2017
GUINEACAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICES
The epidemiological surveillance network of West African National Public Health Institutes was officially launched from the 3th to 5th of April 2017 in the presence of : the Ivoirian health Minister , the West African Health Organization ‘ s Chief Executive Officer, representatives of National Coordinating Institutions of the six beneficiary countries, the Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP, preventive medicine agency) and other members of the consortium as well as... Read more
Niger and Mali – Training of 50 young peer-educators, essentiel relays for adolescents on sexual and reproductive health rights
5 April 2017 | sexual and reproductive health, SRHR
MALINIGERCAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
On the 31st of March, 2017, ended two training sessions (in Niamey and Bamako) of young adolescents chosen as peer-educators under JADES project, "pilot intervention to promote sexual health among adolescents to reduce HIV / AIDS-related new infections and mortality" funded by the 5% Initiative. Solthis organized these trainings in collaboration with JADES partners, the NGOs “Equilibres et Populations” and Lafia Matassa in Niger, ASDAP and Walé in Mali. Fifty young... Read more
Solthis received an award for its contribution to efforts towards TB control in Sierra Leone
30 March 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting tuberculosis
On Monday 27th of March, Solthis Sierra Leone participated in the 2017 TB Advocacy Dialogue Forum organized by the National TB/Leprosy Program of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (NTLP-MOHS) under the theme “Unite to End TB, Leave No One Behind”. The event gathered all the stakeholders involved in the TB response in Sierra Leone to present the main achievements of the NTLP, the challenges and future developments for 2017. For this occasion, Solthis presented a poster... Read more
Empower Project: NETHIPS management and coordination capacity training by Solthis and the Commission of Human Rights in Sierra Leone
17 March 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
Solthis organized a 3-day training workshop in Sierra Leone for NETHIPS, the national Network of People living with HIV, project managers and regional coordinators. The training was part of the capacity building strategy of the Empower project that Solthis has been carrying out in Sierra Leone since 2016 with the support of AFD and the City of Paris.Implemented in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL), the training was based on the rights... Read more
AFRAVIH : Solthis took part in the 5th Clinical Research Course in Abidjan – Côte d’Ivoire
13 March 2017
HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMOPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Organized by AFRAVIH and RESAPSI, from 6 to March 9, 2016, was held, in Abidjan-Côte d'Ivoire, the 5th training course in clinical research to strengthen capacities of African actors, doctors and pharmacists in clinical research conduct in Africa. The course was attended by 40 doctors and pharmacists specialized and involved in the management of HIV and viral hepatitis as well as teachers working in the field of clinical research in Africa and Europe. The training included several... Read more
Meeting between AFD and Solthis team in Guinea
7 March 2017
GUINEACAPACITY BUILDINGLABORATORIES AND TECHNICAL PLATFORMSSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
AFD delegation visited on Saturday 4 March 2017, the molecular biology laboratory of Donka National Hospital. The laboratory is part of the two molecular biology laboratories in Conakry supported by OPP-ERA, the viral load access project funded by UNITAID and implemented by Solthis in Guinea in partnership with the Ministry of Health. Headed by its Africa Director Yazid BENSAID, the delegation comprised AFD Executive Officer Counsellor, AFD Desk officer and AFD Head of... Read more
Sierra Leone : Empower Project Annual Workshop
3 March 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
On February the 28th, Solthis Sierra Leone held its annual workshop with stakeholders to review activities and results of the Empower project that aims at strengthening capacity of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and civil society to exercise their rights to Health. The workshop brought together sixty participants, including strategic partners and beneficiaries of the project : health care workers from the 13 health centres supported by Solthis, members of the 11 NETHIPS... Read more
Operational research project ANRS 12344 – DIAVINA – The first mother- child cohort study have started!
1 March 2017
GUINEAOPERATIONAL RESEARCHFighting HIV / AIDS
On Tuesday, February 22th , 2017, in Ignace Deen UHC pediatric department in Conakry, the first cohort study of the project ANRS 12344- DIAVINA has been launched, including mothers whose HIV infection was not diagnosed until childbirth and their newborns. Mothers were immediately diagnosed and treated in the first time; In the second time, newborns benefited an immediate HIV testing and an enhanced preventive treatment (from birth), which will be administered for 12 weeks. Mothers... Read more
Improving living conditions of prisoners in Niger – Niamey and Say prisons
23 February 2017
NIGERSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICES
Solthis, partner of the National Platform of actors intervening in prisons in Niger relauching Under the project "Improving living conditions of prisoners" co-funded by the European Union and AFD ( French Development Agency) and implemented by Solthis and its partner, the Association of Human Rights (ANDDH) in Niger, Solthis was among the Ministry of Justice ' small group of partners who participated in the relaunch of the National Platform of actors intervening in Prisons, of... Read more
Strategy improvement workshop of viral load tests demand in Guinea
20 February 2017
GUINEALABORATORIES AND TECHNICAL PLATFORMSSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
Solthis, in partnership with Guinea National Program for Health Care and Prevention ( PNPCSP) held a workshop in Conakry from 14 to 16 February 2017 to reinforce the HIV viral load demand strategy in Guinea. The workshop was attended by 30 participants from CNLS (National AIDS Committee), PNPCSP, UNAIDS, MSF, HIV treatment centers, laboratories and associations of people living with HIV. Access to viral load tests for HIV-infected patients is one of the major... Read more
What impact on health systems after NGO’s projects have been completed ?
14 February 2017
STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICES
From 7 to 10 February, a colloquium organized by the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development (LASDEL) was held in Niamey with Montréal University collaboration to compare and discuss recent and ongoing research on neglected problems in public health systems in Africa. Louis Pizarro, CEO of Solthis, intervened on 9 February in the round table discussion on the challenge of sustaining progress in health systems once the NGOs' projects have been... Read more
