CASSIS project : HIV positive patients testing, management and monitoring started in 9 new health centres in Guinea!
18 September 2014
GUINEACAPACITY BUILDINGHUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTHFighting HIV / AIDS
CASSIS project’s main objective in Niger and Guinea is to strengthen national health actors’ capacities in order to improve access to treatment and health information system in terms of HIV/AIDS patient management. Within the framework of access to healthcare, the objective is twofold: improving geographical access to treatment by decentralizing patient care management in new centres located in region; and improving patient management quality by strengthening medical and paramedical... Read more
OPP-ERA project: 800 viral loads already achieved in Guinea!
18 September 2014
Improving the monitoring of people living with HIV and management of therapeutic failures The use of the HIV Viral Load Test (VLT) is necessary to ensure prescription of the most suitable treatment. Because of its high cost, access to this test is still under-developed in West African public structures. The launch of OPP-ERA project aims at opening the market for viral load tests to the competitive marketplace, thereby combatting overpricing and encouraging technological innovations by... Read more
Ebola virus outbreak: continuity of care at risk
12 September 2014
GUINEASIERRA LEONEFighting HIV / AIDSInfectious and emerging diseases
While the Ebola virus outbreak spreads in West Africa, where Solthis has operated for more than 10 years, we draw the attention of the international community to the catastrophic consequences of this crisis on health systems. Access to care and continuity of treatment for other pathologies are in serious threat. This crisis disrupts health services and severely impacts the conditions of access to care for all populations. Our field staff can attest to the reality of the impact in many... Read more
Three parlimantarians defend ODA after a mission on child health in Niger
14 July 2014
NIGERADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CARE
Back from from a trip to Niger on child health, they could see the usefulness of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) including health aid and all the risks in cutting funding for this assistance. They have during their trip, visited the pediatric ward of the National Hospital of Niamey and the Integrated Health Centre Madina, both supported by Solthis, and have noted the importance of HIV testing and Mother to Child HIV prvevention programs (PMTCT). While the President of the... Read more
Parliamentary study tour
28 June 2014
NIGERADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CARE
In partnership with Global Health Advocates France, Solthis co-organised a trip to Niger focused on child health to sensitise 3 French MPs (2 National Assembly delegates and 1 senator) on the progress that Ocial Development Assistance makes in terms of public health in the Global South – in light of France’s current tendency of reducing its aid budget. Following the trip, an opinion piece was published in La Croix on 16/07/14 on the eve of the President’s trip to Niger as a reminder of... Read more
Universal access to care : 220 signatories of the open Letter against the “blue-ribbon Task Force initiative” of the Global Fund, the GF ED’s answer and critical analysis of the Equitable Access Initiative proposa
16 May 2014
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CARE
Solthis has signed this letter from 220 non-governmental organizations from around the globe opposing the proposed Blue-Ribbon Task Force to Develop a Global Framework on Tiered-Pricing.This letter urges the Global Fund and proposed partners to: a) Abandon the blue-ribbon Task Force and tiered pricing initiative in light of the evidence of the ineffectiveness of tiered pricing and the broad concerns voiced by public health experts, civil society, and increasingly, governments. b) Join... Read more
The Robin Hood tax on financial transactions
16 November 2012
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CARE
The Robin Hood tax is a tax on global finance that could generate hige amounts of revenue to fight against poverty, against climate change, against diseases that kills millions of people every year. This tax of at least 0.05% on financial transactions could raise between 6 and 10 billion Euros every year in France. The 22nd of June 2011, Solthis participated in a citizens’ demonstration to protest against the waiting game played by the G20 in regards to speculation. To follow this... Read more
Social protection in the field of health in developping countries – Study
1 August 2012
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CAREGOVERNANCE AND HEALTH POLICIESHEALTH FINANCING
Solthis conducted a study in the Coordination Sud's health commission about the share of official developpement assistance allocated to social protection in the field of health in developping countries between 2000 and 2011. Results were presented on 8th september 2011 during a workshop organized in Coordination Sud in presence of the French Development Agency and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. Read more
Call for access to hepatitis C diagnostics, treatment and care for all
27 July 2012 | civil society, Treatment Access
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CAREHEALTH FINANCINGHEALTH PRODUCTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMFighting HEPATITIS
Over the last decade, HIV drug prices have dropped dramatically, and access to antiretroviral therapy has significantly increased. It is time to apply the lessons from HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C virus (HCV). An estimated 170 million people have chronic hepatitis C. At least 350,000 of them die from it each year although it is curable. Access to prevention tools, diagnostics, and treatment remains extremely limited, particularly for people who inject drugs, a group disproportionately affected by... Read more
Mobilization against free trade agreements (ACTA) between European Union and India
16 July 2012
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CAREHEALTH PRODUCTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEM
As one of the most important generic drug producers, India became the main "pharmacy" of developping countries. Generics represent 80% of treatments purchased by international donors in 115 low and middle income countries. Since 2007, European Union and India negociate bilateral free trade agreements which reinforce intellectual property rights and undermine access to cheap health products, such as vaccines or essential medicines. Solthis and several associations mobilized in 2011 demanded to... Read more
Reject ACTA ! Save people living with AIDS !
2 July 2012 | generic medicines, India, Treatment Access
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CAREHEALTH PRODUCTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMFighting HIV / AIDS
After four years of secret negociations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by the European Commission, the EU Parliament will finally be able to take position and vote on the agreement that threatens acces to medicine for milions of people living with HIV all over the world. ACTA establishes a confusion between legitimate generics and counterfeit medicines and allows their seizure and destruction. It will jeopardize the arrival of cheap generic drugs and hinder the access to... Read more
Hands off our medicines !
8 February 2012 | generic medicines, India, MSF Campaign, Treatment Access
ADVOCACY FOR FAIR ACCESS TO QUALTITY HEALTH CAREHEALTH PRODUCTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMFighting HIV / AIDS
MSF launched the campaign "EUROPE! KEY NOT OUR MEDICINES ". Right now, eight people living with HIV are treated with about 10 generic drugs from India and available at affordable prices. However, current European policies might challenge these workings, preventing millions of people in poor countries access to medicines. Solthis joined the MSF approach that aims to ask the European Commission to stop: to pursue free trade agreements that limit the production of affordable generic... Read more
