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Côte d'Ivoire SRHR STI

Meet Altine Traoré, midwife at Espace Confiance in Côte d’Ivoire

15 December 2025

Altine Traoré is a midwife at the Espace Confiance Drop-in Center in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Trained by Solthis as part of the POUVOIR project, she explains how she discovered her calling and why she chose this profession. Since I was a child, I wanted to become a doctor to help women. My parents dreamed of me becoming an engineer, but...

Sierra Leone HIV/AIDS

Meet Salamatu Jawara, HIV Nurse Counselor in Sierra Leone

4 December 2025

Salamatu Jawara is an HIV nurse counselor in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Trained by Solthis as part of the IMPAACT4HIV project, she tells us about how she found her calling and her daily life as a caregiver. Since childhood, I dreamed of becoming a doctor. For “African Child Day” at school, my mother would dress me in a white coat and...

Decrypting the dramatic consequences of cuts to international health aid on RFI

29 September 2025

Invited on the program Décryptage on RFI – Radio France Internationale, our CEO, Dr. Serge Breysse, addressed the historic collapse in global health funding. Between the dismantling of USAID at the start of Donald Trump’s second term and major cuts to European budgets, international health aid has fallen by 50% over the past five years, reaching its lowest level since...

Guinea Cervical cancer SRHR

Meet Dr. Aïssatou Barry, Guinea