| Organization name: | GIP ESTHER |
| Organization type: | Governmental Agency (Other) |
| Website: | www.esther.fr |
| Description: | ESTHER is an Aid Agency of the French government that aims at improving access to care for people living with HIV and other infectious diseases in developing countries. ESTHER develops North-South partnerships between public health institutions, hospital staff and community-based organizations, with the main goal of scaling up access to care and ARV treatment and sustainably improving the quality of patient care. The programs ESTHER is operating combine the provision of technical assistance, capacity building and health systems strengthening and cover areas such as procurement and supply management, laboratory strengthening, monitoring and evaluation, psychosocial support and clinical care. |
| Contact name: | Dr Gilles Raguin (medical director) - Dr Pierre Mendiharat - Mireille Kohler |
| Contact email: | gilles.raguin@esther.fr; mireille.kohler@esther.fr; pierre.mendiharat@esther.fr |
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| Technical focus area(s): |
Drug Procurement and Supply Management
Multi- and Extensively Drug Resistant TB (MDR/XDR-TB)
Operational Research
Paediatric TB management
TB/HIV co-infection
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| Current projects with TB component: | strengthening laboratory capacity (Mali), TB/HIV operational research (Cambodia), TB in prisons (Cote d’Ivoire), strengthening laboratory capacity and case management capacities (Chad), strengthening laboratory capacity (Senegal), TB/HIV (CAR). |
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| Countries with TB-related work currently underway: |
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Cote d'Ivoire
Ghana
Mali
Morocco
Niger
Senegal
Viet Nam
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| List of countries in which you have offices: |
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Cote d'Ivoire
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Togo
Viet Nam
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| Illustrative list of TA providers and areas of expertise: | ESTHER is operating north south twinning programs between hospitals. The experts mobilized through ESTHER are clinicians, microbiologists, biomedical engineers, nursing staff, pharmacists and public health specialists. |
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| Date created: | 29 September 2009 17:00 |
| Date last modified: | 5 January 2011 12:19 |
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