March 24 – World Tuberculosis Day
25 March 2024
SIERRA LEONEFighting tuberculosisInfectious and emerging diseases
To mark World TB Day, two studies conducted as part of the TB-Speed project have been published in eClinicalMedicine. The aim of these studies was to assess the impact of decentralized diagnosis on the detection of cases of tuberculosis in children. Indeed, less than half of the one million children affected by tuberculosis each year remain undiagnosed, as diagnosis requires specific procedures for taking samples for testing, clinical expertise and proper interpretation of chest X-rays. In... Read more
March 8, 2024 – International Women’s Rights Day
12 March 2024
COTE D'IVOIREGUINEANIGERSENEGALCAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESPromoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
As every year on March 8, International Women's Rights Day, Solthis demonstrates its ongoing commitment to a feminist approach to healthcare. To mark the occasion, we posted content on our social networks highlighting the importance of access to sexual and reproductive health care and rights for all. We began with an interview with Ramata Baldé, a young ambassador from Guinea, member of Ablogui and General Secretary of the COPIL Jeunes of the PAJES project, who through her advocacy shows... Read more
A look back at the 11th African Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (ACSHR)
12 March 2024
A look back at the 11th African Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (ACSHR) held from February 26 to March 02, 2024 in Rabat, Morocco. As part of this conference, Solthis presented its commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights, with its teams in Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and headquarters, through its stand and oral communications, worshop and poster. Our teams shared their experience in deploying projects to promote dialogue and education on these crucial issues,... Read more
Solthis at the center of AFRAVIH: 1 symposium, 5 oral communications, 4 posters and 1 stand
6 March 2024
The 12th International Francophone Conference on HIV, Hepatitis, Sexual Health and Emerging Infections (AFRAVIH) will take place from April 16 to 19, 2024 at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Solthis will be present at the event, through : the organization of a symposium dedicated to the SANSAS project, co-organized with our partner EquiPop (Wednesday April 17 at 12:30 pm) : The SANSAS project in Senegal: a comprehensive approach to meeting the specific sexual and... Read more
Portrait: our caring citizens
14 February 2024
Interview with Dr Gabrièle Laborde-Balen Health anthropologist Dr Gabrièle Laborde-Balen has been working for over 20 years in West and Central Africa, mainly in Cameroon and Senegal. Associate researcher at IRD's TransVIHMI unit, her research focuses on HIV-related vulnerabilities: pediatric HIV, men who have sex with men and elderly people living with HIV. She shares about her experience as an expert in the implementation of our technical assistance for the situational analysis of... Read more
The ATLAS project in IRD Mag’
25 January 2024
Secondary dispensation was one of the major innovations of the ATLAS project, run in consortium by Solthis and IRD between 2018 and 2022. This strategy, aimed at entrusting the dispensing of HIV self-testing kits to key populations so that they themselves distribute them to less accessible targets, made it possible to reach people who previously had no access to testing. IRD Mag' has published an article reviewing the results of the study carried out to evaluate this strategy. Discover the... Read more
Best wishes for 2024!
25 January 2024
🎉 All the Solthis teams wish you a happy 2024 ! May 2024 reflects our common ambitions: a more united, fairer world, where health is a right for all! See our animated gif Read more
A look back at 20 years of Solthis in Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mali and Niger
12 December 2023
After the head office team in Paris, it was the turn of our teams in the field in Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Mali to celebrate Solthis' 20th anniversary, accompanied by our institutional partners and the people on the field who play a central role in ensuring that our projects run smoothly. To mark the occasion, our Chief Executive Officer, Dr Serge Breysse, went to Freetown, where he joined Maurice Kwite, Country Director and the Deputy Minister of Planning . Then to Dakar,... Read more
November 25, 2023 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
12 December 2023
GUINEACAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESPromoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Every year on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Solthis demonstrates its ongoing commitment to raising awareness and combating all forms of gender-based violence (GBV). #EVERYNOCOUNTS For a week, we broadcast content on our social networks highlighting our actions through our projects in the field linked to the fight against GBV: PAJES in Guinea, SANSAS in Senegal and POUVOIR in Côte d'Ivoire. Our campaign began with a video showing how Solthis... Read more
Infodrome’s look back at our 20 years in Côte d’Ivoire
2 December 2023
Fighting HIV / AIDSPromoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
In 2023, Solthis celebrates 20 years of commitment and action. To mark this anniversary in Côte d'Ivoire, Infodrome took part in the festivities and published an article testifying to our impact and highlighting the highlights of this event. Read Infodrome article (in French) Read more
World AIDS Day: ATLAS strategy helps reduce new HIV infections
30 November 2023
GUINEAMALICAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDSInfectious and emerging diseases
The research undertaken as part of the ATLAS project, carried out by the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, continues to deliver the lessons learned from the project. After 11 articles published in scientific journals, two new studies will soon be published ("preprint"). Among them, the study led by Romain Silhol[1] "Assessing the potential population-level impacts of HIV self-testing distribution among key populations in Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal: a mathematical... Read more
A look back at Solthis’ 20th anniversary at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris
18 October 2023
On October 4th, 2023, Solthis celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris. The event, which attracted over 200 participants, featured two round-table discussions with our founders and 18 speakers : What's the new deal for global health in West Africa? Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a lever for the emancipation of women and young people. In parallel, a photo exhibition (click on it to discover it) retraced our 20 years of action in the field, and a... Read more
