The OPP-ERA Project’s key moments since 2013
Guinea – Unitaid and the Global Fund joint visit : a common fight led with the ministry of Health, for access to HIV viral load testing at the national level
Both key partners of the guinean ministry of Health in the fight against HIV / AIDS, Unitaid and the Global Fund organized a joint mission in Guinea from February 20 to February 22, 2018. The mission allowed exchanges with relevant stakeholders in the country to...
Côte d’Ivoire – Burundi: Expertise exchange on HIV Viral Load Testing
From 5 to 16 February 2018, a two-week training session took place at CEDRES laboratory (Center for Diagnosis and Research on AIDS) in Abidjan. The session was organized for the three new laboratories supported by the 2nd phase of OPP-ERA in Burundi:...
From the ICASA conference to CEDRES & CEPREF laboratories in Côte d’Ivoire: Annual workshop of the OPP-ERA project technical teams
From 4 to 14 December 2017, the OPP-ERA Project Coordination Team organized the annual capacity building workshop for the OPP-ERA Technical Teams, Phase 2, which took place in Abidjan with the support of the OPP-ERA Team in Côte d'Ivoire and CEDRES & CEPREF...
The OPP-ERA project : A week with technical referents of the project in countries
Du 21 au 25 septembre 2015, les 4 référents techniques et 8 techniciens affectés à 100% au projet OPP-ERA se sont réunis à Paris pour faire le bilan de leur expérience un an après le lancement de l'activité de charge virale dans les quatre pays de la première Phase...
Burundi : the project OPP-ERA receives the visit of the French Embassy Global health Regional Advisor
Since 2014, the OPP-ERA project has supported Burundi in carrying out HIV viral load tests. The project is implemented in the ANSS laboratory (National Association for the Support of PLHIV), in close collaboration with the National Program for the Fight against AIDS...
Training sessions of OPP-ERA project’s 4 countries of intervention medical officers, supply experts and logisticians
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...
50 HIV health-care workers in Conakry trained on the usefulness and interpretation of viral load tests’ results
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...
Towards access to HIV viral load testing for all in Cameroon: the OPP-ERA project launches its second phase phase of activities
mplemented since March 2013 in four African countries (Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea) to improve the monitoring of people living with HIV by increasing access to viral load tests, the OPP-ERA project has been extended to 2019 in the 4 countries to...
Michèle Boccoz, the French health ambassador in charge of HIV and communicable diseases visits the CePRef laboratory, a key partner of OPP-ERA project in Ivory Coast
Michele Boccoz visited the Abidjan Research and Training Center (CePReF) on Friday, January 20th. The visit was organized by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. The Ambassador was accompanied by representatives of the PACCI...