Aina Vao health centre © PSF Suisse

Three-year project (2024-2026)

New partners

Building on its successes in Madagascar, PSF Switzerland has set up a new project for the period 2024-2026, in which new partnerships have emerged, notably with Candide Hospital and the pharmacy school of Mahajanga.

It is divided into three axes:

Support for health centres

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.

Professional capacity building and training

 

Supporting local staff with the infobox and e-learning

Thanks to the presence of a pharmacist on a mission 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. To give as many healthcare workers as possible access to training, PSF Switzerland, in collaboration with Pharm-Ed, has created new training tools. An e-learning project has also been launched, including a Malagasy translation, and is currently being implemented.

Courses at the University of Antananarivo

Every two years, a member of the teaching staff from UNIGE travels on site for two weeks to deliver community pharmacy courses to pharmacy students, followed by an internship in Aina Vao for one student.

Aina Vao and Mahasoa Centres, Candide Hospital.

Quality of medicines

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.
Work at the laboratory of Aina Vao health centre, Madagascar, 2014. © PSF Switzerland
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