MoPoTsyo

Quarterly Review 3 – 2020 (July, August and September) Setting – up new service locations: The program team has set up a new Medical Consultation service and Revolving Drug Fund at Health Center Rompea Meanchey (Kampong Speu province, Kong Pisey Operational District (OD) and at the Referral Hospital Samaki Romduol (Svay Teap OD in Svay […]

Quarterly Review 2 – 2020 (April, May and June 2020) Corona Virus and MoPoTsyo: During the 2nd quarter of 2020, the services have continued. People with diabetes and hypertension are extra vulnerable to COVID19.  We try to help them keep good control of blood sugar and blood pressure but also prevent transmission of COVID19. We […]

Quarterly Review 1 – 2020 (January, February and March 2020) Corona Virus and MoPoTsyo: During the 1st quarter of 2020, the services have continued. People with diabetes and hypertension are extra vulnerable to COVID19. We will try to help them keep good control of blood sugar and blood pressure but also prevent transmission of COVID19. […]

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 […]