Healthcare worker-patient relation : central theme of the EMPOWER project’s annual workshop in Sierra Leone
15 December 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
In line with the WHO’s agenda for patient-centered healthcare, the annual workshop of the EMPOWER project on “healthcare worker-patient relation” took place from 21st to 23rd of November. 36 healthcare workers coming from different units (HIV clinics, laboratories, labour wards & maternity, ANC, paediatric care, General and Surgical Wards, tuberculosis services, Triage ) participated in this workshop which focused on equiping them with the skills to improve communication with their... Read more
Mali – Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents
15 December 2017
MALICAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
As part of the Jades project, a co constructed approach was used with the adolescents in a workshop that allowed to define, directly with the peer educators, their needs in terms of information, and the communication tools that need to be elaborated in priority. « Less discrimination based on sex, more collaboration between girls and boys »: one of the slogans that were designed by young peer educators. A two day workshop on sexual and reproductive health took place in October in Mali, as... Read more
Solthis will be at ICASA 2017 !
23 November 2017
The 19th edition of ICASA (International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa) will be held from December 4th to 9th 2017 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. On this occasion, Solthis will share its knowledge and experience especially on the topic of making viral load tests accessible in the framework of the "OPP-ERA" project, a project funded by Unitaid and led by Solthis, lead partner of the OPP-ERA consortium comprising ANRS, Expertise France and Sidaction. Apart from the OPP-ERA project, other... Read more
With TB-SPEED, Solthis joins the fight to tackle tuberculosis!
20 October 2017
SIERRA LEONEOPERATIONAL RESEARCHFighting tuberculosis
In September, the "TB-SPEED" project was launched by Université de Bordeaux, lead partner and coordinator of the project. Among a consortium made up of 8 institutions, Solthis is responsible for the implementation of the project in Sierra Leone. The objective of the project is to reduce childhood tuberculosis mortality by improving TB screening in children under 5 years old, including those who are HIV-positive and suffering from severe pneumonia, a demographic among which tuberculosis... Read more
Guinea: operational research training to improve HIV care
9 August 2017
GUINEACAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
With grants from the Global Fund's governmental session allocated to Guinea to fight HIV for the period of 2015/2017, Solthis, chosen as the sub-recipient of this grant by the grant's main recipient the CNLS (National Committee for the Fight Against AIDS in Guinea), has been implementing activities which aim to improve care management of PLHIV (People Living with HIV) in Guinea. A training session on operational research was recently held by Solthis in Conakry, from July 10th to 28th. This... Read more
Solthis supports 12 health facilities in Sierra Leone
8 August 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
Thanks to our "Empower" project in Sierra Leone, 39 NETHIPS (Network of HIV positives in Sierra Leone) community volunteers were recently taken through an orientation of the “defaulter tracing program”, a program implemented by NETHIPS and funded by the Global Fund. Within the "Empower" project, Solthis gives its support to this program in 12 health facilities in order to strengthen patient retention in HIV care and treatment. Thanks to the active mobilization of the civil society, this... Read more
Guinea – Hospital hygiene: 78 health workers trained and WASH rehabilitation works carried out
10 July 2017
GUINEACAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESInfectious and emerging diseases
aunched in Guinea in August 2016, the second phase of "TWIN 2H" aims to contribute to sustainable reconstruction of health systems' capacities in the field of Infection Prevention and Control (PCI) and hospital hygiene, in order to find solutions to the challenges we face in the wake of the Ebola outbreak that shook Guinea in 2014 and 2015. Partner of the project, Solthis organized several training sessions for the 2 hospitals supported by the project in Guinea (Guinée forestière), where... Read more
Feedback on Salesforce World Tour – Paris
16 June 2017
Watch the closing session full video on the strength of thinking and acting differently Alongside the sailor, Eric Bellion and the researcher, Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot, Louis Pizarro, intervened on the theme "modern adventures, modern values" during the round-table debate hosted by the journalist David Abiker : an occasion to explore the question of Innovation, ability to act differently and difficulties to overcome to make a difference. Louis Pizarro intervened under Solthis... Read more
Niger : Donation of medical equipment to Niamey and Say prisons
15 June 2017
NIGERSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICES
As part of the project "Improving inmates'living conditions in Niger", Solthis team in Niger donated medical equipment to Niamey Prison's medical service, with its local partner the Nigerian Association for the Protection of Human Rights (ANDDH). Made up of of hospital beds, mattresses, stretchers and soccer balls, this equipment aims at improving Niamey and Say prisoners' living conditions and mainly their medical care . On Wednesday 31st of May, the team carried out another donation of... Read more
Training sessions of OPP-ERA project's 4 countries of intervention medical officers, supply experts and logisticians
22 May 2017
BURUNDICAMEROUNCOTE D'IVOIREGUINEALABORATORIES AND TECHNICAL PLATFORMSFighting HIV / AIDS
From Monday 15th to Friday 19th of May, training sessions of OPP-ERA project's Medical Officers, Procurement Experts and Logisticians in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Guinea took place at Solthis headquarters. Organized by Solthis, leader of the consortium for the implementation of OPP-ERA, the training was organized in two sessions. The training for Supply and Logistics Experts focused on reagents supply chain and viral load testing supplies in OPP-ERA laboratories.... Read more
Solthis – Niger: 29 health workers of the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (CSE) trained at PLHIV care's data management software
11 May 2017
NIGERHEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
The sessions organized by Solthis allowed to train 29 staff from 29 prescribing sites (national and regional hospitals, district and maternal health centers) at the use of two HIV data management softwares: FUCHIA, the national software for PLHIV data management and Fugen (Fuchia Generator), a complementary software provided by Solthis to facilitate the development of monthly reports. Indeed, Fugen automatically generates monthly reports from databases under Fuchia. Note that 14 sites out the... Read more
Solthis-Guinea : ANRS 12344 -DIAVINA project’s official launch
10 May 2017
GUINEAOPERATIONAL RESEARCHSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
For the launcing activities of ANRS 12344-DIAVINA ("Diagnostic Virologique et Initiation à la Naissance"), a project that aims at improving HIV/AIDS prevention and diagnosis at birth among newborns whose mother were not diagnosed during the pregnancy period, Solthis team in Guinea organized a workshop and a scientific conference on 24th and 25th of April. The two days were hosted by Dr. Roland TUBIANA (infectious disease physician at Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière and... Read more
