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
Conakry : 50 HIV health-care workers trained on the usefulness and interpretation of viral load tests' results
7 April 2017
From the 21-22 & 23-24th of March 2017, Solthis team in Guinea organized in partnership with the National Program for Health Care and Prevention of STIs / HIV / AIDS (PNPSCP), two training sessions for 50 HIV care actors (Doctors, nurses, biologists, pharmacists and psychosocial agents) on the usefulness and interpretation of viral load tests’ results. The training sessions were organized under the OPP-ERA project-phase 2 funded by UNITAID and implemented by a... Read more
Niger and Mali – Training of 50 young peer-educators, essentiel relays for adolescents on sexual and reproductive health rights
5 April 2017 | sexual and reproductive health, SRHR
MALINIGERCAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting HIV / AIDS
On the 31st of March, 2017, ended two training sessions (in Niamey and Bamako) of young adolescents chosen as peer-educators under JADES project, "pilot intervention to promote sexual health among adolescents to reduce HIV / AIDS-related new infections and mortality" funded by the 5% Initiative. Solthis organized these trainings in collaboration with JADES partners, the NGOs “Equilibres et Populations” and Lafia Matassa in Niger, ASDAP and Walé in Mali. Fifty young... Read more
Solthis received an award for its contribution to efforts towards TB control in Sierra Leone
30 March 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICESFighting tuberculosis
On Monday 27th of March, Solthis Sierra Leone participated in the 2017 TB Advocacy Dialogue Forum organized by the National TB/Leprosy Program of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (NTLP-MOHS) under the theme “Unite to End TB, Leave No One Behind”. The event gathered all the stakeholders involved in the TB response in Sierra Leone to present the main achievements of the NTLP, the challenges and future developments for 2017. For this occasion, Solthis presented a poster... Read more
Empower Project: NETHIPS management and coordination capacity training by Solthis and the Commission of Human Rights in Sierra Leone
17 March 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
Solthis organized a 3-day training workshop in Sierra Leone for NETHIPS, the national Network of People living with HIV, project managers and regional coordinators. The training was part of the capacity building strategy of the Empower project that Solthis has been carrying out in Sierra Leone since 2016 with the support of AFD and the City of Paris.Implemented in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL), the training was based on the rights... Read more
Sierra Leone : Empower Project Annual Workshop
3 March 2017
SIERRA LEONECAPACITY BUILDINGFighting HIV / AIDS
On February the 28th, Solthis Sierra Leone held its annual workshop with stakeholders to review activities and results of the Empower project that aims at strengthening capacity of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and civil society to exercise their rights to Health. The workshop brought together sixty participants, including strategic partners and beneficiaries of the project : health care workers from the 13 health centres supported by Solthis, members of the 11 NETHIPS... Read more
Operational research project ANRS 12344 – DIAVINA – The first mother- child cohort study have started!
1 March 2017
GUINEAOPERATIONAL RESEARCHFighting HIV / AIDS
On Tuesday, February 22th , 2017, in Ignace Deen UHC pediatric department in Conakry, the first cohort study of the project ANRS 12344- DIAVINA has been launched, including mothers whose HIV infection was not diagnosed until childbirth and their newborns. Mothers were immediately diagnosed and treated in the first time; In the second time, newborns benefited an immediate HIV testing and an enhanced preventive treatment (from birth), which will be administered for 12 weeks. Mothers... Read more
Improving living conditions of prisoners in Niger – Niamey and Say prisons
23 February 2017
NIGERSTRENGTHENING SYSTEMS AND HEALTH SERVICES
Solthis, partner of the National Platform of actors intervening in prisons in Niger relauching Under the project "Improving living conditions of prisoners" co-funded by the European Union and AFD ( French Development Agency) and implemented by Solthis and its partner, the Association of Human Rights (ANDDH) in Niger, Solthis was among the Ministry of Justice ' small group of partners who participated in the relaunch of the National Platform of actors intervening in Prisons, of... Read more