For its second phase of implementation since September 2023, the CARE II project in the acronym “Casamance Researche Program our HIV Resistance and sexual health” is already showing very satisfactory results in the fight against HIV, Hepatitis B in Casamance and in Guinea Bissau.
The observation and evaluation were made this week in Ziguinchor which hosted a conclave on the implementation of this project. The cervical cancer component included in the program allowed the managers and actors mobilized in Ziguinchor to establish the level of satisfaction. Boubacar Diouf, the head of the ENDA South Ziguinchor office, presented the results already achieved during the meeting on the implementation of year 1 of CARE II. “This program is a total satisfaction…For its first year of execution, it made it possible to enlist around 2,000 people in the Ziguinchor region,” suggested Mr. Diouf who continued: “This program also made it possible to implement places a molecular biological unit of HIV1 and HIV 2 viral load, to set up equipment…”.
“The elimination of HIV and other pathologies such as Hepatitis B and cervical cancer also remains a concern for Luxembourg,” declared for her part the head of Luxembourg cooperation in Dakar, Tania Martins, who demonstrated his country’s commitment to supporting the State of Senegal in the fight against these diseases in the south of the country and in Guinea Bissau. Co-financed for its second phase by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the CARE project is implemented on an operational level by ENDA santé to consolidate the achievements and innovation of prevention, screening and continuity of care for HIV, hepatitis and papillomaviruses in the southern regions of Senegal. Also taking place in Guinea Bissau, this project enabled the training of dozens of doctors, nurses and midwives, revealed the interim director of ENDA Sante Katia Ribero Bareto.
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