Tenth birthday of the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Insert in News the day June 11, 2010
Ten years of activities. Tomorrow, June 12, 2010, the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri (PHL-IdC) in Pemba (Zanzibar archipelago, Tanzania) reaches the milestone of ten years from the official start of activities.
The priority of the early years of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation, non-governmental organization engaged in international health cooperation, research and training, was the construction of a public health laboratory in Pemba. The project was based on Ivo de Carneri’s intuition of 1988, born during a mission on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was engaged in a campaign to control schistosomiasis in Pemba. Built between 1998 and 1999, the PHL-IdC is dedicated to Ivo de Carneri from the Zanzibar authorities and operates in three main areas: control plans, operational research and training. In 2005 it was recognized as World Health Organization – WHO Collaborating Centre for Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Parasitic Infections.
With 40 local people employed and about 300 operators on the field, the PHL-IDC supports the local government in control and prevention programmes for endemic diseases and research trials based on local health priorities. The effects of these interventions are more easily assessed, since an island is an easily measurable environment because of its natural borders, and the results provide useful information applicable to other contexts and countries. Infectious and parasitic diseases are treatable if diagnosed in time on the basis of accurate laboratory tests: the PHL-IdC therefore plays a central and fundamental role.
Through the PHL-IdC training projects are carried out, a key element to achieve a scientific research and an health care based on the internal resources of the country. This includes training of the same PHL-IdC staff and the organization each year of an international course addressed to health operators from the South and the North of the world (this year from July 26 to August 6), “Management of Programmes for Communicable Diseases Control in Sub-Saharan Africa”.
For information:
Valeria Confalonieri
Scientific Communication
Tel. 0039 02 28 900 393/401
v.confalonieri@fondazionedecarneri.it
www.fondazionedecarneri.it/en
Spring in music and poetry for health in Africa
Insert in Events the day April 28, 2010
Concert organized by the Ivo de Carneri Foundation
Friday, May 28th, 2010
h. 9 p.m.
Basilica di San Marco
Piazza San Marco 2 – Milano
Entrance: it would be appreciated a contribution from 15€
Friday, May 28th, 2010, in the Basilica of San Marco in Milan, a solidarity concert will be organized. With this event, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation, in occasion of the 10 years of activity of the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania), desires to bring attention to the neglected tropical diseases and the relevance of training and research in Africa, and raise funds for projects.
The choral group Canti Corum , with Maestro Vincenzo Simmarano, will propose an evening of songs from different cultures and places.
Neglected tropical diseases are infectious and parasitic diseases that mark the lives of over one billion people worldwide, causing pain, disability and death. Prevalent in poor countries and among the poorest people on Earth, they affect not only the health but also economic and social development. Nevertheless, for many of these diseases there are drugs available and at affordable costs. The ten years of the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, active since 2000 and integrated into the local health system, show the possibility to do research and training in countries where these diseases still mark the life of the community. Since its establishment sixteen years ago, the commitment of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation has been the promotion of projects on poverty related diseases, through international cooperation, training and research.
For information:
Camilla Veronese
0039 02 28 900 393
c.veronese@fondazionedecarneri.it
World TB Day 2010. The PHL-IdC activities on the Island of Pemba
Insert in News the day March 24, 2010
The World TB Day dedicated to tuberculosis (TB), which falls on March 24th, brings the latest data on the multidrug resistant cases of the disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Report released on March 18th, in some areas of the world, one in four people with TB has is a case resistant to standard drugs regimens, and this is the highest level ever reported to WHO. March 24th was the day when, in 1882, Robert Koch reported the discovery of the TB bacillus. This is why this date was chosen to raise awareness on TB.
The Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri (PHL-IdC) on the Island of Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania), built by Ivo de Carneri Foundation and run in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Zanzibar, works in the field of TB diagnosis and has recently been recognized as the National reference laboratory for this disease, thanks to the activities started in 2007 on TB diagnosis.
The PHL-IdC, officially launched on June 12th 2000, this year has reached the milestone of ten years of research and training on the endemic diseases in the Island, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to the work of local staff and national and international collaborations. In 2005 it was recognized WHO Collaborating Centre for Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Parasitic Infections; this new acknowledgement for TB marks the increasingly important role within the Zanzibar health system.
For information:
Ivo de Carneri Foundation
tel. 0039 02 28 900 393/401
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
World Water Day 2010. Safe water for the Island of Pemba
Insert in News the day March 22, 2010
Almost 39 percent of the world’s population, over 2.6 billion of people, mainly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, live without improved sanitation facilities, according to WHO and UNICEF (WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water – 2010 Update Report). Access to safe water is still not guaranteed in some parts of the world. World Water Day 2010, held on March 22, calls the attention to the connection between safe water and health, as the theme Clean water for a Healthy World highlights. As a matter of fact, many diseases can be transmitted through contaminated water: the WHO reports that almost one billion people have no access to safe water; the use of unsafe water and the lack of adequate sanitation are responsible for almost 2 million annual deaths from diarrhoeal diseases; more than 50 countries still report cholera cases each year.
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation has been carrying on a project involving water since 2005, when the rehabilitation of water sources was started on the island of Pemba (Zanzibar archipelago, Tanzania). The project has been divided into different phases and developed in collaboration with the Department of Public Health, Microbiology and Virology – University of Milan, Ingegneria Senza Frontiere Trento and locally with the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri and the Zanzibar Water Authority. Between 2005 and 2006 (Phase 1), the quality of water sources in a selected district of the island was evaluated. Moreover, the local staff was trained and interventions in health education were made. Between 2007 and 2009 (Phase 2), primary water sources and water pipes were renovated in order to make them suitable for the distribution of drinking water. Furthermore, new wells were built and the water supply network was extended. Meanwhile, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation carried on with its educational activities addressed to the local community, in order to inform the population about water safety and the use of water. The third phase of the project will imply interventions on a small island near Pemba, called Kojani, where water supply is inadequate and where there are cholera outbreaks.
For information:
Ivo de Carneri Foundation
tel. 0039 02 28 900 393/401
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
Ivo de Carneri Award 2010
Insert in News the day March 17, 2010
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation announces an Award for the year 2010 to recognize a PhD or post-graduated course thesis of outstanding quality, in the field of parasitology. Such Award is restricted to graduates from Sub-Saharan Africa. The hard copy of the application and the documents should be sent by 15 May 2010. The Award will be given at the XXVI National Congress of the Società Italiana di Parassitologia, which will be held in Perugia, 22-25 June 2010.
For additional information, please download the attached document.
For information:
Ivo de Carneri Foundation
tel. 0039 02 28 900 393/401
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
Appointment at Do the right thing!
Insert in Events the day March 9, 2010
On 12, 13 and 14 March, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation is going to be at Do the right thing! – Fair of the critical consumption and sustainable lifestyles – organized by Terre di Mezzo Events. The Foundation is going to have a stand where, in addition to providing information on projects and activities, some crafts from Zanzibar will be offered to raise funds.
Come to meet us:
Stand PP31 – “Peace and Involvement” section – Fieramilanocity – Porta Scarampo 14.
The hours of the Fair are:
Friday 12: from 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Saturday 13: from 9.00 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday 14: from 10.00 a.m. to 7 p.m.
On Tuesday, 9th March, a meeting is going to be held at the headquarters of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation to explain the organization of the days and to update all the volunteers on the activities of the Foundation itself.
For information:
Camilla Veronese
0039 02 28 900 393
c.veronese@fondazionedecarneri.it
Training Course
Insert in Courses the day February 22, 2010
Management of Programmes for Communicable Diseases Control in Sub-Saharan Africa MPCDC 2010
Pemba – Zanzibar (Tanzania)
26th July – 06th August 2010
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation, under the auspices of the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia – WHO Collaborating Center on the implementation of TB/HIV collaborative activities, has organized the 7th edition of the international training course “Management of Programmes for Communicable Diseases Control in Sub-Saharan Africa, MPCDC 2010”.
The course, addressed to 20 participants with scientific background, 10 from developing countries and 10 from developed countries, will be held at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri on Pemba Island – Zanzibar (United Republic of Tanzania), between July 26th and August 6th, 2010.
Based on availability of sponsors, 5 scholarships might be offered for partial coverage of expenses.
For the course programme and additional information, please download the attached documents.
Do the right thing 2010
Insert in Events the day February 11, 2010
On 12, 13 and 14 March 2010 the Ivo de Carneri Foundation is going to be at Do the right thing! – Fair of the critical consumption and sustainable lifestyles – organized by Terre di Mezzo Events in Halls 1 and 2 of Fieramilanocity, Porta Scarampo 14 (MM1 Lotto Fiera), Milan, Italy.
The Foundation is going to have a stand where, in addition to providing information on projects and activities, some crafts from Zanzibar will be offered, to raise funds.
On this occasion, the Foundation is looking for volunteers to organize the work and provide assistance during the days.
The hours of the Fair are:
Friday 12: from 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Saturday 13: from 9.00 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday 14: from 10.00 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In the week prior to the Fair a meeting will be held at the headquarters of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation to explain the organization of the days and to update all the volunteers on the activities of the Foundation itself.
For information:
Camilla Veronese
0039 02 28 900 393
c.veronese@fondazionedecarneri.it
Spot on malaria in television
Insert in News the day February 2, 2010
From 7 to 13 February 2010, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation will be present on the Mediaset networks with its spot on malaria. Realized to raise awareness on this parasitic disease and the number of deaths linked to it every day, the 30-second video will be shown as part of the space allowed free on Mediaset campaigns of social utility.
Every year, malaria affects about 250 million and kills nearly one million people worldwide, of which most are children. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation realizes health interventions in poor countries, especially against parasitic diseases and poverty diseases. Among these, since the 2003 the Foundation supports a Dispensary where maternal child care is offered free of charge, with an average of 100 examinations every day for three days a week. In addition to the local surgery, on two days of the week there is a mobile service that runs a car to reach remote places to assist people who cannot get to the dispensary.
Towards a new operating theatre
Insert in News the day January 28, 2010
It’s almost finished the renovation to have a new operating theatre at the Chake Chake hospital (Pemba island, Zanzibar, Tanzania). Until now a single operating theatre has been used for both general surgery and obstetric emergencies. Often obstetric emergencies interrupted the planned general surgery, causing troubles and delay to the patients and their family.
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation, already engaged in a project to support the surgical ward (Surgery Project), is now supporting also this renovating project and a new operating theatre is almost ready to be used for delivery.
Final steps for the solar panels
Insert in News the day January 22, 2010
The works aimed at providing the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba (Zanzibar Archipelago – Tanzania) with solar panels go ahead quickly.
This project will allow the Laboratory to have continuous power supply, overcoming the weighty obstacle represented by the frequent blackouts. At present, in fact, the electrical power depends on the only power station situated in Pemba, supplied by a ship from Tanzania.
The blackouts, which happen on average every other day, require the use of emergency generators, resulting in very high economic cost.
The project involves the installation of solar panels that will provide the electric power needed to make the various equipment work even in case that power supply breaks off, with the single exception of freezers at -80° C (which require the electricity provided by a diesel generator).
The supply, installation and maintenance of the solar panels have been committed to a Tanzanian company, which has performed similar actions on the island before. The installation of the panels has already started.
Volunteering days
Insert in Events the day January 12, 2010
On 30th and 31st January 2010, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation will participate at: I giorni del volontariato, exhibition-presentation of voluntary associations in Milan to be known and to have support. The initiative, organized by AIM (Associazione Interessi Metropolitani), Ciessevi (Centro Servizi per il Volontariato nella Provincia di Milano) and Credito Valtellinese, will take place in Milan at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Corso Magenta 61, from 10am to 6:30pm.
Two hundred associations, including the Ivo de Carneri Foundation, will have the opportunity to present their activities through information stands. Over the two days debates, meetings, seminars, films and a theatrical performance are planned. Two days in which the different volunteering opportunities in Milan will have space and voice. Free entrance.
For more information: http://www.aim.milano.it/aim/volontariato/
Open Day 2009
Insert in Events the day November 16, 2009
Ivo de Carneri Foundation and Terre des Hommes Italy
Open Day 2009
Saturday 12 December 2009, from 10 a.m. to 19 p.m.
Viale Monza 44 and Viale Monza 57 – Milan (MM Pasteur)
After the successful experience in 2008, to Support Christmas 2009 the Ivo de Carneri Foundation once again is opening its doors to supporters, friends and all those who wish to know its initiatives and actions to help countries in developing world.
Saturday 13 December, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m, anyone who is interested in the activities of the Foundation will be able to meet its staff, ask for information about the projects and about the possibilities to support them.
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation Open Day is “twinned” as in 2008 with the Open Day of Terre des Hommes Italy, whose offices are just over the road. This two non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which represent the “pole of solidarity” in a multi-ethnic area of Milan, have been working for years in aid of developing countries and have committed themselves to increasing the awareness among the Italian people. The Ivo de Carneri Foudation and Terre des Hommes Italy have decided to make the event coincide to emphasize the common aspects of the initiatives they carry on alongside the poorest communities.
The detailed programme of the Open Day will be provided in the coming days. The event will represent an opportunity to know the reality of the countries where both organizations work and carry out their projects, thanks to the pictures, the examples of local handcrafts and the stories of the people who have had concrete experiences.
Music and dance for the 15 years of the Foundation
Insert in Events the day October 22, 2009
Last night, October 21st, at the Teatro Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, the Sinafrica group celebrated the 15 years of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation. The group took the audience in the happy atmosphere of a tipical celebration in an African village, with their music, songs and dance. All the people were taken into the world of African culture, thanks to the notes and the enthusiasm of the performers, who also invited the audience to dance with their music and rhythm. The Sinafrica had already played in Cles (Trento) a few days ago, with a concert in Piazza Grande Saturday, October 17th. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation thanks all the people who enabled the realization and the success of these days in Cles and in Milan, and thanks all those who follow and support its activities.
The Italian ambassador at the Training course in Pemba
Insert in Courses the day October 21, 2009
The sixth edition of the Residential Course “Management of Communicable Diseases Control Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa”, with the participation at the opening ceremony of the Italian Ambassador in Zanzibar Francesco Catania, has just come to conclusion.
The course, organized by the Ivo de Carneri Foundation under the auspices of the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (University of Brescia) and the Italian Cooperation, was organized in Pemba (archipelago of Zanzibar, Tanzania) at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri from 28 September to 9 October 2009. This course, thanks to scholarships to cover full or partial costs, offers a training on the diseases of Sub-Saharan Africa to 20 health workers from different countries in the world. This year there were 10 Africans from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique, and 10 Europeans from France/USA, Spain, Portugal, Italy and UK.
The course has hosted international and local experts; it was officially opened by the Principal Secretary of the MoHSW Zanzibar, Dr M. Jiddawi, and this year there was the participation, as Guest of Honour, of the Italian Ambassador Dr. Francesco Catania.
The Foundation at the AIFO Conference: Becoming People
Insert in News the day October 20, 2009
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation participated at the AIFO International Conference AIFO (Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau) Becoming People, which was organized in Assisi, October 16-18, 2009.
The Conference, divided into Plenary sessions and Workshops, has given voices to different actions and thoughts centered on the person, his dignity, his rights, including the right to health and to access to care. As part of the Workshops, Valeria Confalonieri, who follows the Ivo de Carneri Foundation’s scientific communication, has participated as a speaker at the Workshop on Integrity, who has studied health as one of the components involved in the integrity of people, to guarantee to everyone in the world.
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation at the International Congress of MAGI Association
Insert in News the day September 22, 2009
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation has been invited at the 4th International Congress of MAGI Association 2009, which took place in Dro (Trento, Italy) on September 18-19th. The Congress, with the title “Medical-scientific priorities of our society and health care needs of developing countries molecular medicine and developing countries”, was attended by representatives of scientific research and of health cooperation in developing countries.
Friday, September 18th, Alessandra Carozzi de Carneri, President of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation, had the speech entitled “Challenges of promoting Research and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from Experience”, with a report on the Foundation’s experience in Africa on research and training, especially at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania).
Leaving for Pemba
Insert in News the day September 17, 2009
In Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania), for the start of the course and of the new projects, as well as the update of the current ones. These are the main goals of the representatives of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation, leaving for the island on September 18th and 19th: Marco Albonico (Secretary General and Scientific Director), Deborah Cocorullo (Project Manager) and Camilla Veronese (events and fundraising).
While on the island, among other activities, trials on new diagnostic methods and drugs for parasitic diseases will be launched and the progress of some projects will be assessed. Among them, the details of the installation of solar panels at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba will be finalized: the works are expected to start soon, with a local firm (of Tanzania), which also ensures training of a local worker for maintenance works and a visit every two years for verifying the proper conditions of the panels. The renovation work of the Gombani dispensary for mother and children supported by the Foundation since 2003) will also be evaluated, as well as the progress of the project for safe water in some district of Pemba and the project on strengthening surveillance of endemic diseases in Zanzibar. Finally, from September 28th to October 9th, sixth edition of the training course “Management of programmes for communicable diseases control in Subsaharan Africa” will take place, addressed at European and African healthcare professionals, annually organized by the Ivo de Carneri Foundation with the participation of local and international experts.
A concert for the birthday
Insert in Events the day September 16, 2009
For its birthday, fifteen years, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation organizes an evening dedicated to African music with the group Sinafrica, “Music from Africa – not to forget the diseases of poverty”. The event will allow to present the Foundation’s activities in the prevention and treatment of infectious and parasitic diseases and to raise funds for projects. The evening will be in Milan on October 21, at the 9.00 p.m., at the Leonardo da Vinci Theatre, Via Ampère 1. It’s open to anyone wishing to support the Foundation’s activities and to know the world of African culture.
The decision to celebrate fifteen years of activities with the music of the African continent represents the will to draw attention to this continent and the neglected tropical diseases, obstacles to the future of populations and countries. The neglected tropical diseases are infectious and parasitic diseases that mark the lives of over one billion people worldwide, causing suffering and disability. For many of these diseases, there are drugs, available and at affordable cost. The neglected tropical diseases affecting the poorest countries and peoples of the world, a burden not only on the population’s health but also on the economic and social development.
Since its birth, the commitment of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation is to promote projects on these diseases of poverty, with international cooperation, training and research. This includes the construction in Africa of the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, for diagnosis and research on endemic diseases. Built on Pemba island (archipelago of Zanzibar, Tanzania), the Laboratory has been active since 2000 and integrated into the local health system.
CONCERT DETAILS
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:00 p.m.
Teatro Leonardo da Vinci
Via Ampère 1, Milan
Tickets: 15 euros
For information:
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
tel. 0039 02 28 900 393
tel./ fax 0039 02 28 900 401
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation at the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
Insert in Courses the day September 15, 2009
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation has actively participated at the 6th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, which was held in Verona, September 6-10th. The European Congress, this year in Italy, was organized by Zeno Bisoffi, from the Center for Tropical Diseases, Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona. Bisoffi was assisted by a local organizing committee, which includes Marco Albonico, Secretary General and Scientific Director of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation.
The main theme of the Congress was “Equity, human rights and access to care”, theme that characterizes public health and neglected tropical diseases, core of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation activity since its birth. Right this year, on October 27, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation celebrates its first 15 years. At the Congress there were several international experts with speeches and presentations to update research and studies. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation had the opportunity to bring to public attention the international scientific studies and projects carried out in Pemba (archipelago of Zanzibar, Tanzania) and in Nepal.
On Monday, September 7th, in the morning session on tropical diseases, the data of the cholera epidemic occurred in 2006 in Pemba, analyzed at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, were presented. On Tuesday, September 8th, during the morning sessions, Marco Albonico presented the results of a study conducted in Nepal on drugs resistance in treatment of intestinal parasites in children. During the Congress, four posters, related to projects in which the Foundation is involved, were exposed: the project in Pemba for safe water, which is now vehicle for infectious diseases transmission; the project for the collection of data on endemic diseases in Zanzibar, to implement plans for prevention and treatment; the project for a new laboratory test for intestinal parasites; the project on micronutrients supplementation to control anemia in children in Nepal. Marco Albonico, as an expert in neglected tropical diseases, has also conducted a session on control of these diseases in relation to equity and human rights on Wednesday, September 9th and was part of the round table on intestinal parasites in the final morning, on Thursday, September 10th. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation was present at the Congress with Alessandra Carozzi de Carneri (President), Marco Albonico (General Secretary and Scientific Director), Deborah Cocorullo (Project Manager) and Valeria Confalonieri (Scientific Communication).
HMIS project: in the middle of the journey
Insert in News the day July 13, 2009
In the first six months of the project on rehabilitation of the diseases surveillance system in the archipelago of Zanzibar, some goals have already been achieved: in particular, the location of the operational unit of the Health Management Information System (HMIS) at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri (PHL-IdC) as epidemiologic reference center in Pemba, and the implementation of a training course in epidemiology for HMIS health personnel.
The course has involved, for 10 consecutive days, 22 operators in Unguja and, 10 days later, 24 operators in Pemba. Initially the course provided an overview of the health status in developing countries (with particular attention to Sub-Saharan Africa countries ), to give an indication of the objectives to be achieved through a correct and continuous monitoring of the health status. The key role played by a computerized system for health data collection in Zanzibar was also highlighted. The second part of the course was focused on acquiring epidemiological skills which allow to calculate the major indicators of health status in a population. Although the course was focused on theoretical concepts, not always easy to understand, people involved have shown a remarkable capacity of interaction and concentration, that has produces excellent results.
For information:
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
tel. 02 28 900 393
tel. / fax 02 28 900 401
A new “dress” for the Mother and Child Clinic
Insert in News the day July 8, 2009
The renovation of the Mother and Child Clinic of Gombani on Pemba Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania) has almost been completed. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation, together with the St Andrew’s Clinics for Children in Glasgow (UK), supports the activities of the Clinic since 2003. An average of 100 visits a day are performed, through the support also of a mobile clinic which reaches the most remote areas of the island. The renovation, which began in September 2008, is almost complete, with only the electrical installation to be finalized.
The Clinic, addressed at mothers and children, offers e refurbished waiting and visiting rooms for a more accurate activity of diseases prevention and treatment. During the renovation works, mothers and children were assisted in another public health centre, to ensure the continuity of care.
For information:
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
tel. 02 28 900 393
tel. / fax. 02 28 900 401
Towards clean water
Insert in News the day July 6, 2009
The project “Safe Water for the Island of Pemba” is going on, with the completion of the lying of pipes for water delivery. Renovation of pumping stations in on-going, by replacement of the worn out parts and construction of fences. To make the use of water safe, the purchase of chlorine dosing machine is also about to be finalized. The quality of 9 additional water pumping stations was analyzed; the water was found contaminated by bacteria in all stations. Finally, for the health education, training activities for teachers of primary and secondary schools were carried out. These teachers will have a role in the transfer of information to their colleagues, children and, through them, families.
For information:
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
tel. +39 02 28 900 393
tel. / fax. +39 02 28 900 401
The solidarity beyond the Giro
Insert in News the day June 30, 2009
On May 31, in Rome, the adventure of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation in the Giro d’Italia ended. The Foundation thanks all those who came to visit us at the stand and all people who have made our presence at this event marked by the attention to the world of solidarity.
At the final stage of the Tour, in Rome, the Foundation has also had the pleasure of the visit of the cycling world champion Maurizio Fondriest, to whom the Foundation ows a special thanks for his availability and support.
To remeber this event, the T-shirts to witness the participation of the Foundation at the Giro d’Italia in 2009 have been realized, and are available in various sizes. There are also, as limited edition, the same T-shirt autographed by Maurizio Fondriest.
All the donations will support the Ivo de Carneri Foundation’s activities.
For information:
info@fondazionedecarneri.it
tel. 02 28 900 393
tel. / fax 02 28 900 401
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation at the Giro d’Italia
Insert in Events the day May 8, 2009
Between May 9th and 31th, the Ivo de Carneri Foundation will follow the Giro d’Italia from Venice to Rome. For the 100 years of the bicycle race (the first race dates back in May 1909), the Giro del Centenario (centenary ride) has been organized together with the Giro della solidarietà (solidarity ride), with the presence of some associations, among which the Ivo de Carneri Foundation. At the end of every single race two stands will be set up in the welcome area to host different associations.
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation, which this year celebrates the 15th anniversary, is committed in research, training and treatment of parasitic and infectious diseases in developing countries. These diseases are born in poor settings and threaten the life and the future of families and entire countries. Neglected tropical diseases, which include parasitic diseases, afflict the life of one sixth of the world population, a billion of people. Yet, a lot of these diseases could disappeare with a small economic commitment: 50 cent/year/person is enough to treat seven diseases (onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma and three soil transmitted helminthiasis). Many of these diseases were also present in the developed world, including Italy. They disappeared with the improvement of sanitation.
Since years the Ivo de Carneri Foundation supports projects on neglected tropical diseases, including the construction in Africa of the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri for the diagnosis and the research on neglected tropical diseases. Built on the island of Pemba (Zanzibar archipelago, Tanzania), the Laboratory has been active since 2000 and integrated into the local health system.
For a lot of neglected tropical diseases drugs exist and the cost of therapy is affordable: the possibility to eliminate them also from developing countries is a reality.
For more information:
Fondazione Ivo de Carneri Onlus
Tel. 02 28900393
Fax 02 28900401
Viale Monza 44 – 20127 Milano
c.veronese@fondazionedecarneri.it
www.fondazionedecarneri.it
Global health and right to health
Insert in Courses the day April 8, 2009
Mind changing, start thinking at health from a global perspective and promoting the teaching of global health in Italy and in the whole world. These are the topics of the International Conference: “Equal opportunities for health: action for development”. A plan of action to teach and advocate Global Health ((Padova, 3-4 April 2009), promoted by Doctors with Africa Cuamm. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation was represented at the Conference, by Dr Marco Albonico, General Secretary, and Dr Valeria Confalonieri, Scientific Communication.
The 150 participants to the Conference came from Europe, Africa and United States. After a plenary session, four working groups have been created to work on: teaching global health; life-long learning of health professionals on global health; role of international health cooperation (at which Dr Albonico and Dr Confalonieri participated); strategies for mobilizing and sustaining financial and human resources. With the inputs from different working groups, a common plan of action to fight inequalities of health and to promote global health and its teaching has been elaborated. Teaching focused not only on training of students, medical doctors and health workers but also of people with different jobs and careers, with new courses on global health, promoting the relation with work in the field and the general awareness on inequality of health.
Training in global health to take the attention from the care of the disease and the patient to the global and social level: promoting health, a right for all.
Ivo de Carneri Foundation at the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
Insert in Courses the day April 8, 2009
Tropical Medicine will have a leading role in Verona (Italy) for five days. This year, the 6th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health will be organized in Italy, 6-10 September 2009. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation is directly involved in the Congress, with the General Secretary Dr Marco Albonico as a member of the Local Organizing Committee. Further, some studies will be submitted as oral presentation or as poster, in the area of health cooperation, research and training activities of the Foundation.
The main themes of this 6th edition of the Congress are Equity, Human Rights and Access to Care. During five days different aspects of international health and tropical medicine will be discussed, among wich public health, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases and others. Areas where the Ivo de Carneri Foundation is working, together with the neglected populations, for 15 years, since its establishment.
6th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health
Training Course
Insert in Courses the day March 16, 2009
Management of programmes for communicable diseases control in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pemba – Zanzibar (Tanzania)
28 September – 09 October 2009
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation, under the auspices of the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases – University of Brescia, has organized the 6th edition of the international training course “Management of programmes for communicable diseases control in Sub-Saharan Africa”.
The course, addressed at 20 participants with scientific background, 10 from Europe and 10 from East Sub-Saharan Africa, will be held at the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri on Pemba Island – Zanzibar (Tanzania), between September 28 and October 9, 2009.
Based on availability of sponsors, scholarships might be offered for full or partial coverage of expenses.
For the course programme and additional information, please download the attached documents.
New surgeons in Chake Chake hospital
Insert in News the day February 17, 2009
The surgery project is ongoing. Started in Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania) at the end of 2007 by the “Ivo de Carneri Foundation”, it’s now in its second year of activities.
The project was launched as a consequence of the shortage of personnel, materials and equipment at Chake Chake Hospital. It intends to support the general surgery service in Chake Chake hospital.
In this first year, equipment was shipped to Pemba and Italian surgeons arrived to the hospital for surgical activity and training of the understaffed local personnel.
In these first 14 months, four Italians surgeons worked at the Chake Chake Hospital, for a minimum of two months each.
The expatriated personnel worked in a very collaborative and supportive environment.
The mission of the most recent surgeon arriving in Pemba started in January of this year (2009). Even if the situation is still critical, there have been some general improvements in the overall organization and logistics: rehabilitation of the roof of surgical theatre and the post-operating ward, continuous supply of essential drugs, reintegration of a second anesthetist.
Little steps in a direction that we hope will carry on and lead to a permanent change in the surgical assistance to Pemba’s population.
Diseases surveillance: first departures to Pemba
Insert in News the day January 28, 2009
The project “Rehabilitation of the Health Management Information System (HMIS) for endemic and epidemic diseases in Zanzibar” has started: at the beginning of February the logistician will arrive in Pemba, followed in a short time by the project manager and the teaching-consultant in epidemiology.
In Zanzibar a lot of children are malnourished and with anaemia, which is even more serious for the spread of malaria, parasitic diseases, tuberculosis, leprosy, filariasis, diarrhoea, respiratory infections. Knowledge of endemic and epidemic diseases in a country allow to implement more punctual control and prevention strategic plans. The Ivo de Carneri Foundation’s new project supports the reform of the HMIS promoted by the local Health Ministry (MoHSW) and launched in 2005.
The Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri will become the operational unit of the HMIS for data collection and analysis in Pemba; at the same time the MoHSW District infrastructures will be strengthen by providing equipment for data collection and analysis and local health personnel will be trained for epidemiologic surveillance. The project is co-financed by the Italian Cooperation.
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