Courses, conferences and events of the Ivo de Carneri Foundation » News http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:07:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tenth birthday of the Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri in Pemba (Zanzibar, Tanzania) http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/tenth-birthday-of-the-public-health-laboratory-ivo-de-carneri-in-pemba-zanzibar-tanzania http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/tenth-birthday-of-the-public-health-laboratory-ivo-de-carneri-in-pemba-zanzibar-tanzania#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:07:18 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=126 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
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]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/tenth-birthday-of-the-public-health-laboratory-ivo-de-carneri-in-pemba-zanzibar-tanzania/feed 0 World TB Day 2010. The PHL-IdC activities on the Island of Pemba http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/world-tb-day-the-phl-idc-activities-on-the-island-of-pemba http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/world-tb-day-the-phl-idc-activities-on-the-island-of-pemba#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:16:41 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=112 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.

 

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Ivo de Carneri Foundation
tel. 0039 02 28 900 393/401
info@fondazionedecarneri.it

]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/world-tb-day-the-phl-idc-activities-on-the-island-of-pemba/feed 0 World Water Day 2010. Safe water for the Island of Pemba http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/world-water-day-2010-safe-water-for-the-island-of-pemba http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/world-water-day-2010-safe-water-for-the-island-of-pemba#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:03:54 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=104 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.

 

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]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/world-water-day-2010-safe-water-for-the-island-of-pemba/feed 0 Ivo de Carneri Award 2010 http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/ivo-de-carneri-award-2010 http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/ivo-de-carneri-award-2010#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:47:54 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=94 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. 

Premio_deCarneri(EN)

 

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]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/ivo-de-carneri-award-2010/feed 0 Spot on malaria in television http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/spot-on-malaria-in-television http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/spot-on-malaria-in-television#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:30:58 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=68 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.

]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/spot-on-malaria-in-television/feed 0 Towards a new operating theatre http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/towards-a-new-operating-theatre http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/towards-a-new-operating-theatre#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:22:01 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=62 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.

]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/towards-a-new-operating-theatre/feed 0 Final steps for the solar panels http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/final-steps-for-the-solar-panels http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/final-steps-for-the-solar-panels#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:03:50 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=60 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.

]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/final-steps-for-the-solar-panels/feed 0 The Foundation at the AIFO Conference: Becoming People http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/the-foundation-at-the-aifo-conference-becoming-people http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/the-foundation-at-the-aifo-conference-becoming-people#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:33:50 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=40 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.

]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/the-foundation-at-the-aifo-conference-becoming-people/feed 0 The Ivo de Carneri Foundation at the International Congress of MAGI Association http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/the-ivo-de-carneri-foundation-at-the-international-congress-of-magi-association http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/the-ivo-de-carneri-foundation-at-the-international-congress-of-magi-association#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:11:49 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=36 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).

]]> http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/the-ivo-de-carneri-foundation-at-the-international-congress-of-magi-association/feed 0 Leaving for Pemba http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/leaving-for-pemba http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/leaving-for-pemba#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:41:42 +0000 admin http://www.fondazionedecarneri.org/courses/?p=33 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.

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