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

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

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

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

For additional information, please download the attached document. 

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

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

 
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.

MPCDC 2010 – PROGRAMME

APPLICATION FORM

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

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.