PSF Switzerland ensures that patients receive quality care and supplies medicines through the local network. To learn more about PSF Switzerland’s policy in this regard, click here.

Aina Vao and Mahasoa health centres, Candide Hospital.

Supporting local staff with the infobox and e-learning

By sending a volunteer pharmacist on site, PSF Switzerland ensures that skills are transferred to local staff, who are sometimes poorly trained, in order to guarantee the sustainability of the project. In order to overcome the Covid-19 crisis, and to give access to training to as many health care staff as possible, PSF Switzerland, in collaboration with Pharm-Ed, has created new training tools: the InfoBox, a free online educational platform created following the Covid-19 pandemic. Numerous prevention materials will be added to the platform, including translation. An e-learning project has also been created and is being developed and implemented by the volunteer.

Courses at the University of Antananarivo

Every two years, a Doctor in Pharmacy goes to Antananarivo for a two-week period to teach community pharmacy to pharmacy students, followed by an internship in Aina Vao for one student.

Aina Vao and Mahasoa Centres, Candide Hospital.

In order to combat counterfeit medicines, PSF Switzerland has been collaborating since 2012 with Pharmelp, an association whose aim is to control pharmaceutical quality and to detect counterfeit therapeutic products.