Exchange of experience between young people engaged in sexual and reproductive health promotion in Mali and Niger
3 April 2018
As part of the project JADES, peer educators from Niger visited their counterpart in Mali to exchange experience from their daily awareness activities. Exchange with ARCAD-SIDA During the visit, the peer educators (PEs) participated together in several activities, including an educational chat session with ARCAD-AIDS’ peer educators on sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The meeting allowed therefore the peer educators to share their experiences, discuss the different steps of... Read more
“TB-Speed joins the fight for a TB-Free world”
23 March 2018
SIERRA LEONEOPERATIONAL RESEARCHFighting tuberculosis
On March 24th, we will commemorate the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise public awareness about TB. Responsible of over 4,500 deaths a day, this disease presents devastating health, social and economic impacts. Despite the fact that TB is curable, too many children do not access treatment and die from the disease because they are just not diagnosed. The 2018 World TB Day campaign theme is “Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world. You can make history. End TB“. A TB-free world is only... Read more
15 March 2018
Both key partners of the guinean ministry of Health in the fight against HIV / AIDS, Unitaid and the Global Fund organized a joint mission in Guinea from February 20 to February 22, 2018. The mission allowed exchanges with relevant stakeholders in the country to understand the challenges of scaling up viral load testing in Guinea. The OPP-ERA project, funded by Unitaid and implemented by Solthis, gave for the first time in Guinea access to viral load testing since 2014. This mission was... Read more
Côte d’Ivoire – Burundi: Expertise exchange on HIV Viral Load Testing
22 February 2018
BURUNDICOTE D'IVOIRELABORATORIES AND TECHNICAL PLATFORMSFighting HIV / AIDS
From 5 to 16 February 2018, a two-week training session took place at CEDRES laboratory (Center for Diagnosis and Research on AIDS) in Abidjan. The session was organized for the three new laboratories supported by the 2nd phase of OPP-ERA in Burundi: the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Kamenge University Hospital Center (CHUK), the Regional Hospital of Muyinga. and was focused on viral load testing and essential laboratory tests for a good quality care of HIV –infected... Read more
Empower Project: 1/3 of the national HIV-infected patient cohort supported, number of compliant patients doubled – an important contribution to the international strategy against HIV in Sierra Leone
14 February 2018
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
On the 6th of February, Solthis Sierra Leone organized its 2nd annual workshop to engage with stakeholders of the Empower Project and to showcase the results achieved. Participants covered a wide array of organisations from people living with HIV, international and national NGOs, civil society groups, Ministry of health, district health management teams, UN agencies (UNICEF, UNAIDS) who attended and made valuable contributions to the workshop. Empower: a contribution to UNAIDS 90-90-90... Read more
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
