Dr Serge BREYSSE is the new CEO of Solthis
16 April 2020
The Board of Directors and all Solthis employees are delighted to welcome our new Chief Executive Officer Serge Breysse. He succeeds Louis Pizarro, who stepped down on March 6th, at the head of Solthis. Serge Breysse is a medical doctor with a degree in Public Health. Until now, he was Director of the GloPID-R Secretariat, an alliance to bring together research funding organizations on a global scale to facilitate an effective and rapid research response for outbreak of emerging... Read more
Maintaining women's rights at the heart of the political agenda while involving feminist movements!
7 April 2020
As the whole international community is gravely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, France, Mexico and UN Women have announced on Friday that the Generation Equality Forum will be postponed to the first semester of 2021. While this calendar change is justified by pressing health and security concerns, it cannot translate into governments withdrawing their commitments on women’s and girls’ rights in the political agendas at national and international level! The COVID-19 pandemic, as the... Read more
Covid-19: frequently asked questions and answers
6 April 2020
This FAQ is based on current information and data available internationally (sources: WHO, French Ministry of Health, Institut Pasteur). The COVID-19 infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is recent and new evidences are being discovered every day. Please note that this FAQ is evolutive and will therefore be constantly updated. The best way to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 is to wash your hands frequently, cover your mouth with the crease of your elbow or a tissue, and... Read more
COVID-19 pandemic: Solthis calls for the mobilization of financial and technical actors for sub-Saharan Africa
31 March 2020
Contributing to the prevention, diagnosis and management of cases of COVID19, to the protection of health professionals and to promote the continuity of access to essential healthcare services: Solthis wishes to carry out these actions, but will not be able to do so without the support of the international community Paris- march 31, 2020 - The Covid-19 pandemic is upsetting the global, health, economic, political and social balance. "Health systems are destabilized everywhere; we don't yet... Read more
Bringing together healthcare workers to identify challenges in HIV service provision in health facilities
27 February 2020
SIERRA LEONESTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESHEALTH SERVICEHIV / AIDS
Since March 2019, Solthis and Action Against Hunger in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) are implementing a project to strengthen health systems and ensure active involvement of communities, especially women, adolescent and youth. (PROSSAN). Based on a participatory approach, the project brought together health care workers at each of the 22 supported health facilities (13 in Western Area Urban District and 9 in Western Area Rural District) to... Read more
[Côte d’Ivoire] Second consortium meeting of the ATLAS Project in Abidjan
26 February 2020
MALICOTE D'IVOIRESENEGALHEALTH SERVICEHIV / AIDS
From 10 to 13 February, all the partners of the ATLAS Project met in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, for the second consortium meeting. While the first meeting, organized in July 2019 in Saly, Senegal, clarified the standards, procedures and methods, this second edition was an opportunity to make an assessment of the progress made as the distribution of HIV self-test kits has begun in the three countries where the project is being implemented, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Senegal. Partners... Read more
Involving patients in their own health is essential to improve the quality of care
25 February 2020
GUINEASTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESHIV / AIDS
"PACTES trained not only medical staff but also patients". Since 2017, the PACTES project, has brought together in Guinea caregivers, patients and psychosocial mediators to identify care problems and propose solutions such as psychosocial support services for patients, reorganization of the care circuit for patients and the improvement of the healthcare workers-patient relationship. During the closing workshop of project in Conakry on the 29th february, we met 4 participants in the project... Read more
[Niger] – Improving access to better sexual and reproductive health care for young people
4 February 2020
NIGERADVOCACYSexual and Reproductive Health
Solthis, in partnership with the NGOs Lafia Matassa and Equilibres & Populations, officially launched the second phase of the project JADES dedicated to improve the sexual and reproductive health among for the youth and adolescents in Niger. This second phase comes to consolidate the achievements of the first one and to reinforce the advocacy for young people sexual and reproductive rights and health in Niger, especially young women, who are more exposed to specific... Read more
For a health system that takes into account the needs and rights of patients
29 January 2020
GUINEATherapeutic Patient EducationADVOCACYHIV / AIDS
End of the PACTES Project - Patients centred treatment and care Conakry, 29 January 2020 - The project, PACTES, implemented since 2017 to improve the health care of patients living with HIV through testing a care approach centred on the rights and needs of patients in five health facilities in Conakry and the Kankan region, ends today. "PACTES is a project has enabled care providers, patients and the psychosocial mediator to come together to reflect on the problems of care and to... Read more
Meet our colleagues behind HIV self-testing kits dispensation
27 January 2020
MALIHEALTH SERVICEHEALTH PRODUCTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMHIV / AIDS
On 22 and 23 January 2020, the procurement and supply managers of the ATLAS Project in Mali, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire met in Paris to discuss the management and evolution of the HIV self-testing kits dispensation since their launch in 2019 (between July and October depending on the country). According to the Technical Director of the project, on the 31 st December 2019, the project had about 26,000 HIV self-test kits dispensed to users via health and community centres, beneficiaries... Read more
Louis Pizarro, CEO of Solthis, has decided to step down.
27 December 2019
Paris - December 27, 2019 After 15 years at Solthis, 13 of which as CEO, Louis Pizarro is retiring to join an international health organization. The Board of Directors of Solthis warmly thanked Dr. Louis Pizarro for his work as CEO. In 15 years Solthis has become a recognized global health NGO, with 6 offices in West Africa, a regional headquarters in Dakar and a general headquarters in Paris. Focused historically on the fight against HIV/AIDS, Solthis' action has expanded in recent... Read more
