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19.01.2022
Collaboration that works.
As an accredited program organization of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) SolidarMed has formed an alliance with the Geneva-based organization "Enfants du Monde" as of the beginning of 2021.
Over 20 percent of infections in Mozambique spread at health facilities and hospitals. Hygiene and infection prevention at health facilities are therefore essential components in containing epidemics, but also the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Worldwide, one woman dies every two minutes from cervical cancer, a largely preventable cancer today.
Together with local partners, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern, SolidarMed has therefore implemented a prevention project with HIV-positive women at Chiúre Hospital in Mozambique.
The four-wheeled clinic brings health care to Lesotho's most remote villages. An enormous step forward for the medically underserved mountain population with the second highest HIV rate worldwide.