MoPoTsyo

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 […]

3rd Quarter: July through September 2017 Research University of Washington:  Based on contract with SMART telephone we began to send voice messages on  August 8th for 6 months to about 1500 patients. We distributed CHUWI Tablets to 2 x 25 Peer Educators in Phnom Penh, Kampong Speu, Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham.  Our study population […]

2nd Quarter: April through June 2017 Government Permissions: We received permissions from government ministries, such as Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Post & Telecommunications in order to support our request from the National Ethical Committee for Health Research for the trial that we plan to conduct on effects of voice messaging and on the use […]

1st Quarterly Review 2017: January through March 1st Quarter : January through March 2017 Our urban programme was severely affected by the loss of our urban program manager, Mr Thorng Sovanra, due to a tragic lethal traffic accident late afternoon Friday 30 December 2016. Of course his family was even affected more strongly. He had […]