AMP in the News

AMP’s ADVIM project to improve advocacy for immunization financing in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire featured in Global Immunization News, published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The article announced the start of the third and final phase of an advocacy training program. The 34 participants include members of health, planning, and finance ministries as well as representatives of civil society in participating countries (see page 4).

AMP's Africhol project to improve data on cholera disease burden and epidemiology in Africa featured in Global Immunization News, published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The article announced the completion of the implementation of project activities in the eight participating countries in November 2011 (see page 6).

AMP featured twice in the Global Immunization News (Nov. 2011), published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The articles addressed the LOGIVAC consortium meeting (page 5) and the SIVAC Initiative’s joint WHO workshop (page 9).

The journal Médecine Tropical, ed. 71, 2011, published an article co-authored by Martin Schlumberger, MD, PhD about computerized temperature monitoring of the vaccine cold chain in Chad.

(French) The Syfadis newsletter features an interview with AMP's Cécile Duperray, multimedia instructional designer. She explains the role of e-Learning, supported in part by Syfadis technology, in the EPIVAC training program for district-level medical officers in sub-Saharan Africa. She stresses the usefulness of eLearning in the African context, saying: "eLearning provides the opportunity to train on one's own time, at home or at work." 

(French) Présidence du Togo: AMP and the Togolese government held a press conference in Lomé, Togo, on April 8, 2010, to announce the launch of PneumoTone. A collaborative project, PneumoTone aims to estimate the burden of meningitis and pneumonia due to pneumococci and other etiologies in a northern district of Togo. The event brought together 35 television, radio, newspaper, and online journalists.

(French) OCEAC Website: The Organisation de Coordination pour la lutte contre les Endémies en Afrique Centrale (OCEAC) announces the start of AMP's Field Epidemiology and Computer Science Course in Central Africa (Cours d’Epidémiologie d’intervention et d'informatique en Afrique Centrale, CEPIAC).

(French) Le Point.fr highlights AMP's Africhol project in the fight against cholera. Launched in 2009, Africhol aims to determine the incidence of cholera in sub-Saharan African through the creation of a surveillance network in at least eight countries.

(French) Ministry of Health, Mali announces 1st edition of AMP's International Training Course on Health Promotion in Africa (Formation internationale en promotion de la santé en Afrique, FOPROSA). The program, which combines classroom and distance learning, is designed to contribute to health promotion capacity building and to optimize public health policies and interventions in Africa.