Category: REACH Network
-
-
AVENIR project updates, July 2024
A growing intervention The second phase of the AVENIR project is getting underway in the Dosso region of Niger during the fourth quarter of 2024. In preparation for this intervention, a national coordination team has been assigned to the region to prepare the ground for future activities and to ensure that all stakeholders are fully…
-
REACH Mali begins national azithromycin distribution in Ségou
On Friday, 2 August 2024, the REACH Mali team began mass drug administration (MDA) in Baroueli, in the Ségou region, some 200km east of the capital, Bamako. The REACH project to distribute azithromycin for child survival took a major step forward this week as Mali began rolling out its national scale-up of the life-saving intervention.…
-
-
Azithromycin for child survival in Niger – implementation and research
Under the patronage of the Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs, Niger launched the second phase of the AVENIR project on Tuesday, 19 March 2024. The official ceremony was attended by international organisations, members of the national REACH network, local and international NGOs, and by national associations, representatives of all Niger’s regional health…
-
-
-
-
-
Two new REACH papers published
The REACH Burkina Faso team have recently seen two research papers published, in PLOS Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine, respectively. You can read the results of their research below. “Single-dose azithromycin for infant growth in Burkina Faso: Prespecified secondary anthropometric outcomes from a randomized controlled trial” PLOS Medicine Published: 23 January 2024…