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In 2021, tuberculosis (TB) was the second deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 and one of the leading causes of preventable deaths. It is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and mainly effects the lungs. It is transmitted when people with tuberculosis spray tubercle bacilli into the air, for example when a person with TB coughs. Tuberculosis is a [...]

Due to their fragile health systems, Burkina Faso and Cameroon face issues around poor drug supply chain management, falsified and out-of-date medicines in circulation, poor governance and lack of pharmaceutical transparency. Supported by L'Initiative to the tune of €600,000, the project OCoPP led by the Centre Humanitaire des Métiers de la Pharmacie aimed at improving th [...]

According to UNAIDS, there will be 480,000 adults living with HIV in Cameroon in 2022. At a time when HIV prevalence was estimated at 2.6%, the MOVIHCAM H.O.T ROAD project helped to improve access to care for vulnerable transport populations in Cameroon. Led by Moto Action and supported by L'Initiative to the tune of €691,152, this project ran from 2019 to 2023 in collabor [...]

In Mauritania, over 23% of men who have sex with men and 9% of female sex workers are living with #HIV - compared with 0.2% in the general population. Faced with these hard-hit key populations, the association SOS Pairs Educateurs and the Association pour les gestionnaires du développement have joined forces to run a project entitled "Promoting key populations' access to hi [...]

In the Republic of Congo, at the end of 2021, only 25% of people living with HIV knew their HIV status, and of these, and only 23% were receiving antiretroviral therapy. In 2018, prevalence was particularly high among female sex workers (8.1%) and men who have sex with men (41.2%). In view of these figures, L'Initiative has made HIV prevention and screening a priority in [...]