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AEDES supports the Secretariat of National Council for Dialogue on Nutrition (CNDN) in Burkina Faso for the establishment of the National Information Platform for Nutrition: coordination and communication component.

In Mali, AEDES, in collaboration with Santé-Sud, provides technical assistance to the Health and Social Development Support Program in the Mopti Region Phase 2 (PADSS-Mopti 2).

In many parts of Africa, patient health records are still a paper-based affair, which greatly hinders the capability of public health officials to track the spread of diseases like Ebola, let alone allow a nurse to access a single patient’s health history. But thanks to an innovative new health information system based on a NoSQL database and Android tablets, some African hospitals are getting a taste of computerization for the very first time.

CERHIS works on digital tablets, inter-connected to each other used by the staff. Based on the patient follow-up CERHIS records administrative and medical data, including the main acts in medical and technical services.

Jacques Pinel passed away in August 2015. He was working on a paper aiming to widely advocate on and explain the commonplace danger of falsified and sub-standard medicines in the developing countries, he did not have time to finalise. Here we are providing you a final version of his paper, finalised by a small group of Jacques’ close collaborators and fellow travellers.