{"id":61886,"date":"2024-05-18T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/?post_type=plusproject-site&p=61886"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:41:34","slug":"partner-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"plusproject","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/plusproject\/partner-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspetivas dos parceiros"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Benin
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. William Houndjo, Head of Chemoprevention Department, NMCP, has been an active participant in Plus Project activities since taking on his role as the NMCP focal point for the project. From his attendance at the Co-design workshop in November 2021 in Benin, and his participation in the Community Engagement Training of Trainers in Abidjan in February 2022, his involvement has benefited the project in numerous ways. On the CE ToT, Dr. William revealed the following impressions: “Behavior and behavior change are influenced by many factors. Community engagement and social and behavior change activities will enable the individual to overcome known barriers to practicing a behavior. The human-centered approach helps to define empathy, explain it, and tell how to improve it…”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cCommunity engagement and social and behavior change activities will enable the individual to overcome known barriers to practicing a behavior. \u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn Abril 25, 2022, representatives of the Cameroonian government and health sector gathered together in Soa to celebrate the 15th Annual World Malaria Day around the theme of: \u201cHarness Innovation to Reduce the Burden of Malaria and Save Lives.\u201d Through this event, Cameroon joined the global community in commemorating the efforts and achievements made in the fight against malaria and recognizing the challenges that remain. Reflecting on this year\u2019s theme, Dr Manaouda Malachie, Minister of Public Health, highlighted the crucial role of the Plus Project in his keynote speech: “thanks to the technical support of ACMS and under Unitaid funding, we will compare the national five-dose strategy with an eight-dose strategy called “Plus Project” which will be piloted in six districts of the Center Region [\u2026]. This intervention is expected to reduce the incidence of malaria and severe anemia in these children by at least 20% and thus contribute to the reduction of mortality in children under five years old.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMr. Bepha N’Dri, the capacity building officer from the Association Religieuse pour la Sant\u00e9 Int\u00e9grale et la Promotion de la Personne Humaine (ARSIP) in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, attended the Co-design workshop for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire held in Yamoussoukro in December 2021. As a CSO member, Mr. Bepha\u2019s unique perspective and participation at the workshop were invaluable.\n\nMr. Bepha praised the active participation of the participants, especially during the small group work sessions which brought together 5-8 participants per table to voice their ideas openly. Through a process agreed upon by the participants, contributions from the small group work were consolidated by a nominated group of attendees at the Co-design, including representatives from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s Groupe Scientifique d\u2019Appui\u2014a group of national experts whose mission is to support the NMCP in the implementation of malaria control activities\u2014which allowed a consensus about the Plus Project model to be reached at all levels. Mr. Bepha described this activity as being like a “workshop-school during which everyone felt they were working, producing, and discovering more about themselves not only from the presentations, but from the experiences of others.” In Mr. Bepha’s words, “[participants] left the workshop recreated and enriched, without having felt too heavy a weight from the work done.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mrs. Albertina Chihale, National Directorate of Public Health\/ National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) of Ministry Health Mozambique participated in the training of trainers (ToT) on Community Engagement (CE) and shared her impressions on this activity.<\/p>\n

According to her, \u201cThe involvement of the national party in the workshop was important because it allows us to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the project in general as well as the involvement of the community in particular. This was important because for the success of this project, the government and PSI must work together from start to finish. Moreover, when the strategy is approved, the Ministry of Health will have the capacity to implement it.\u2018\u2019<\/p>


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CENTRE FOR MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY (CMP) UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN (UCPH) <\/b>Michael Alifrangis<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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CMP is an independent research center at the UCPH that for the last 30 years has conducted malaria research and as well been much involved in research capacity development in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa. “Our group is within the DRUGs team of CMP and our research on antimalarial drugs has included testing chemopreventive treatment strategies, such as IPTp, SMC & IPTi\/PMC. A key question, particularly with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in Africa, is whether antimalarial drug resistance may constitute a challenge to preventive efficacy, because resistance levels vary so widely between countries and because they are continually changing. In the Genotyping work for the Plus Project, a partnership led by Cally Roper at LSHTM, we will be mapping the level of (molecular) SP resistance in close collaboration with the partner teams in each of the 7 countries. Specifically, our goal is to map SP resistance to district level by analyzing malaria positive samples collected from patients and genotyping the mutations that cause resistance. We will be using Illumina next generation sequencing and the approach developed by our team can analyze some 12 resistance gene targets in 2450 samples in a single run. We are excited to be part of this project, providing molecular data to inform policy. It is to the best of our knowledge the first-time molecular sequence data will directly feed into the design and tailoring of the chemo-preventive strategy of individual countries.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2014 MICHAEL ALIFRANGIS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UCPH<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-61886","plusproject","type-plusproject","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plusproject\/61886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plusproject"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plusproject"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plusproject\/61886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}