The CDT Africa Team have been busy conducting field site visits and a variety of other activities. You can read more detail below.
Scabies Drug and Diagnostic Development work
September 15, 2024 to September 25, 2024: Senior Post Doctoral Fellows, Dr. Belete Adefris and Dr. Serawit Deyno, alongside PhD Candidate Aliy Hassen undertook a field trip to select the field sites and collect samples for the scabies drug and diagnostic development. The team travelled to various locations across Ethiopia, including hospitals and veterinary clinics in Arba Minch, Hawassa, Adama, and Bishoftu. They visited 11 sites in three regions, including clinics, health centres, hospitals (dermatology units) and vet clinics to conduct surveys. They also visited microscopic examination sites at hospitals, health centers, and Universities in Arba Minch, Hawassa, and Adama. The primary objective of this coordinated field trip was to establish vital sample collection and microscopic examination sites.
Pilot Community Survey
Over twelve days from 31st August 2024, a pilot community survey was conducted in the pilot health center, Tiya located in the Sodo district, south of Addis Ababa, in the Eastern Gurage Ethiopia Regional State. The health center has six kebeles in its catchment area and the survey was conducted within these. The aim was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of the community towards chronic wounds. The survey was preceded by appropriate training of data collection methodologies, including research ethics and included supervisors of the data collectors, head of the district health office (Sodo), NTD focal from Sodo District health office, the head and representatives from the Tiya health center including the NTD focal contact, the coordinator of the health extension program and health extension workers . A total of 200 randomly selected residents from the six kebeles were surveyed.
Assessing Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) in Chronic Wound Management
To assess the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of Health Professionals on chronic wound management, a baseline survey was undertaken at the Tiva health center. A total of 15 health professionals participated in this important survey. The insights gained will help us identify current knowledge levels, attitudes towards chronic wound management, and practices in place among healthcare providers.
This content was created by Ms Samrawit Ketema, Project Manager at CDT-Africa.
