MoPoTsyo

Quarterly Review 4 – 2019 (October, November and December 2019) After we had had a discussion at the office of the NSSF, the National Social Security Fund, their staff went to visit Pochentong Hospital in order to see the peer educators in action during a medical consultation session and to interview patients. Hopefully we can […]

Quarterly Review 3 – 2019 The always original independent anthropologist-endocrinologist, Dr Sudah Yehuda, referenced MoPoTsyo https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/07/thinking-of-genomics-snp-and-mauritz.html in his blog. He has kept in contact for more than a decade already, visiting regularly and even facilitating a visit by surviving members of the Omaha tribe living in North America because they were interested to see with […]

Quarterly Review 2nd – 2019 Hep C:  Our cooperation with MSF France on screening among diabetic members of MoPoTsyo, and treatment continues since May 2018. Over 12 months we screened a total of 2,558 Diabetics since the start. Among them, 122 Diabetics were found Hep C positive with Bioline rapid test (80 urban, 42 rural). […]

Quarterly Review 1st – 2019 New Evidence found of effectiveness of peer educators: Dr Mayuree Rao, University of Washington epidemiologist, used logistic regression to analyze large amounts of data over multiple years from our database: the medical consultations, the pharmacy invoice, the follow-up records from the Peer Educators and the laboratory profiles. Analyses show that […]

Quarterly Review 4th 2018 Expansion: Doctors from Health Centers Samaki and Kambol Posenchey OD and Anlong Kangan HC in Sen Sok OD came to visit locations where our program is running so they can see how it works and atalk with their colleagues. They want to copy the model. Also, in Kampot province where in […]

2018-Q3 (July, August and September) Training of new Peer Educators: On 27 July 5 new Peer Educators passed the exam. They are from Kampong Thom and from Kampong Speu. Some replace peer educators that have deceased. Training of Doctors at Center of Hope: During Quarter 3 of 2018, we have facilitated (paid) for 2 week […]

2nd Quarterly Review 2018-April through June Research University of Washington: On April 25th we had the Advisory Board meeting at the Phnom Penh Hotel with participation of NIPH, MoH-PMD and Researchers from UW (Seattle) to present preliminary findings and discuss general ideas about future research. The findings show signs of a little improvement in Blood […]

2018 – 1st Quarterly review January through March 2018 Ministry of Health: MoH Secretary of State, H.E. Prof Eng Huot, has signed our new Memorandum of Agreement (called “MoU”)  on 30 January 2018. It covers a period of 3 years. I send you the Khmer and English versions as annex to this report. The MoH […]

4th Quarter: OCTOBER through December 2017: 14 November World Diabetes Day saw the appearance of an article about diabetes in the Cambodian press please read : http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090467/sweet-silent-killer/   Local Doctors replaced Hired Doctors from Phnom Penh: We can say now that the transfer of responsibility to the local Doctors has been successful.  But we have […]