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.
Together for 15 years
Insert in News the day January 19, 2009
2009 is a special year for the Ivo de Carneri Foundation: it marks 15th years activities since its birth.
The Ivo de Carneri Foundation was established in 1994, in October, after the unexpected death of Ivo de Carneri, Chair of Parasitology, University of Pavia, and Consultant for the World Health Organization for intestinal parasitic infections. The construction of the Public Health Laboratory-Ivo de Carneri on Pemba Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania), whose activities started in 2000, is one of the Foundation’s first projects. Further projects have followed in the public health sector, in support to the local community of Pemba (in collaboration with the Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health), along with projects in Asia (Vietnam and Nepal) and Italy.
Together for 15 years in international cooperation, research and training. Together for the prevention and treatment of neglected diseases, to give a better future to millions of people.