This video takes you on a tour through the blood culture bottle production process put in place by the SIMBLE project in Benin.
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Looking back at the AIM 2023
(AIM = Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings). An interview with Charlotte Grootaers (course coordinator) and Jemima Nyaboke (participant).
SIMBLE team visits CHU-YO in Burkina Faso
On 20-23 March 2023, Liselotte Hardy and Barbara Barbé (ITM’s coordinating and principal investigator of the SIMBLE project) visited the “Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo” (CHU-YO) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Read more here: https://www.itg.be/en/health-stories/articles/simble-visit-chu-yo-burkina-faso
AIM course (Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings) for World Hand Hygiene Day
We teach Infection Prevention Control and Hand Hygiene as part of our course on Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings. Proud to be part of the WHO’s hand hygiene campaign! #CleanYourHands #HandHygiene #InfectionPrevention
Case of the month by Bobbi Pritt and Idzi Potters
Be sure to check out the newest case of the month: https://parasitewonders.blogspot.com/2023/05/case-of-week-716.html
Interview with the Kisantu study team – Doctoral research of Bieke Tack (English subtitles)
Study team describing the preparation, outcomes, benefits, difficulties and way forward after the studies they carried out in Kisantu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speakers: Naomie Wasolua – Nurse research team (health interview + in-hospital follow-up) Dr. Daniel Vita – Local supervisor and medical director St. Luc Kisantu Hospital Dr. Jules Mbuyamba – […]
Travel report of Anne-Sophie Heroes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Anne-Sophie Heroes traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo together with Gaëtan Van Aelst, ITM Clinical Trials Unit, and Justin Im, International Vaccine Institute, for a follow-up and monitoring visit of the THECA – TyVECO study, a Typhoid conjugate vaccine effectiveness study. 1) Since February 2022, children between 9 months and 16 years old […]
Bacteriology laboratory rehabilitation “Hôpital Saint Jean de Dieu de Boko”, Benin
This video shows the newly rehabilitated bacteriology laboratory in Boko, Benin.
Applications for our brand new post-graduate certificate courses are open
Our postgraduate certificate courses focus on health challenges in vulnerable settings across the globe. The courses are characterised by a multidisciplinary and student-centred approach. We offer four short courses which can be combined in different ways to suit specific career aspirations. Each combination of minimum 20 ECTS will lead to a postgraduate certificate. More info […]
Set-up of study to develop a clinical prognostic tool to predict unfavorable treatment outcomes amongst Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) patients (including blood cultures)
In January 2023, our colleagues Dr. Annelies Mondelaers and Dr. Saskia Van Henten from the Unit of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ITM) and Said Abdellati from the Clinical Reference Lab (ITM) started a new research project in Ethiopia. This prospective cohort study is supported by the DGD, under the FA5 Ethiopia framework, and will be performed […]