Two important meetings

Last week, two importants meeting took place in Aviesan, Paris.

Sanofi-Aventis

We first met with Sanofi-Aventis to present our initiative and try to match with some projects of their own. Several main points of interest were identified:

• Fever diagnostic: important issue to initiate adequate treatment and to avoid wasting of unnecessary medicines. To measure fever remotely, several technologies have been already designed and are ready to get implemented;
• @-training: the geographic context and the lack of medical staff in these countries led to think about an @-training solution aiming at helping health professional;
• Meningitis testing: Sanofi is developing an easy-to-use kit for the early detection of meningitis.

World Health Organization

WHO (representatives from T.D.R., the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and from  ‘Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research’), UNESCO (from AU/CPA  Implementation for Science and Technologies), COHRED&GFHR and Aviesan discussed our project through a conference-call aiming at describing our institution, our goals and the progress made the last few months. 

WHO Assistant-DG, Dr Marie-Paul Kieny renewed WHO support and recommended a close interaction with T.D.R. 

The planned action is a meeting in Geneva to discuss over the detailed projects which will be presented by our African partners early September.