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| Name: | Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE |
| Street 1: | Street 134, Sangkat Vealong, Kahn 7, Makara |
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| City: | Phnom Penh |
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| Country: | Cambodia |
| Phone: | (855-23) 882-484 |
| Organization Email: | info@sihosp.org |
| Web Site: | http://www.sihosp.org |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developing Country NGO |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
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| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Faith-based organization (FBO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE provides a center for the further education and clinical training of medical professionals, while delivering 24-hour high-quality, free medical care for the poor and disadvantaged in Cambodia. The TB Clinic at the Sihanouk Hospital developed out of a growing need to treat our HIV/AIDS patients for TB. To improve adherence and cure rates, SHCH adopted the Direct Observe Treatment Services (DOTS) strategy and became an official National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) site beginning in August 2001. SHCH has innovated a number of Active Case Finding methods with high risk impoverished populations and also has state of the art diagnostic capabilities. |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Delivery of health services and care Research and Development |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 100 + |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Involvement in TB control provision |
| If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who: | |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: | Network with other partners |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | No |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: | Yes |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: | |
| SHCH’s TB Clinic, which opened in 1999 and became an official National TB Program (NTP) site in August 2001. SHCH’s activities include daily home-to-home and community TB and TB/HIV education; identification and referral of TB suspects; TB diagnostic services; home and facility based DOTS; adherence counseling; and defaulter tracing. SHCH expanded our successful community-based TB program to the North Operational district (NOD) of Phnom Penh. Working in close cooperation with NOD TB program supervisors, local health centers, and the NOD referral hospital, SHCH’s TB team provides support in the areas of TB screening, patient tracing, DOTs, and TB recording and reporting. The team also provides food and transportation support for severely ill and/or poor TB patients and daily community based educational sessions for more than 5,800 community members annually on topics such as TB, TB/HIV, tobacco use, and other airborne illnesses. SHCH also provides technical support to all TB unit and laboratory staff in the NOD, helping to improve their skills in smear-making, providing refresher training, and linking TB suspects with CXR, ultrasound, or other investigatory procedures for extra-pulmonary TB diagnosis. SHCH’s comprehensive efforts have proven effective in increasing TB screening and diagnosis in the NOD. With support from the WHO’s Stop TB Partnership, SHCH launched a 1 year project spanning all four Operational Districts of Phnom Penh geared at increasing case notifications in poor urban settlements of Phnom Penh through a strategy that deploys trained village health volunteers to conduct intensified , house-to-house case finding; reduces delays in the diagnosis and treatment of TB by expediting diagnostic logistical chains; uses mobile technologies to enable rapid case notification from the top to the bottom of the health services pyramid; and uses new GeneXpert technology to expedite diagnosis of smear negative and MDR TB. |
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Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Cambodia |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Cambodia |
Contribution | |
| Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below: | |
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TB Care Delivery: SHCH’s TB Clinic opened in 1999 and became an official National TB Program (NTP) site in August 2001. SHCH’s activities include daily home-to-home and community TB and TB/HIV education; identification and referral of TB suspects; TB diagnostic services; home and facility based DOTS; adherence counseling; and defaulter tracing. TB-HIV: SHCH’s medical staff have conducted many clinical and operational studies related to TB/HIV and MDR-TB and have served as the principal investigator for a WHO study on the implementation of an algorithm— as proposed in the 2006 WHO guidelines— to improve the diagnosis of TB among adults in HIV prevalent, low resource settings, in collaboration with CENAT and ITM. Laboratory Strengthening: SHCH has a long-standing partnership with the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, which has resulted in significant capacity building in both human resources and infrastructure in HIV, MDR TB, and microbiology. Research: Published papers include: Koole, Olivier, Sopheak Thai, Kim Eam Khun, Reaksmey Pe, Johan van Griensven, Ludwig Apers, Jef Van den Ende, Tan Eang Mao, and Lutgarde Lynen. 2011. Evaluation of the 2007 WHO Guideline to Improve the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Ambulatory HIV-Positive Adults. 3- S Thai, S Sok, R Pe, C Nhep, N Seng, S Huy, Johan van Griensven. TB Prevalence and Risk of TB/HIV co-infection in Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE (SHCH), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 3rd Asia Pacific Region Conference, Hong Kong, 2011. Abstract number: Ps-151 Sopheak, Thai, PI in the “Operational study on the implementation of an algorithm as proposed in the 2006 WHO guidelines to improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis among adults in HIV prevalent and resource constrained settings (for ambulatory patients without danger signs)”, in SHCH, Phnom Penh Cambodia, funded by WHO, from 2008 to 2009. Sopheak, Thai, Co-PI in the “Improving Diagnosis of TB in HIV-infected persons: The ID-TB/HIV Study”, in SHCH, Phnom Penh Cambodia, funded by US CDC, from 2007 to 2008. Kevin P. Cain, MD; Kimberly D. McCarthy, MM; Charles M. Heilig, PhD; Patama Monkongdee, MSc; Theerawit Tasaneeyapan, MSc; Nong Kanara, MD; Michael E. Kimerling, MD, MPH; Phalkun Chheng, MD, MPH; Sopheak Thai, MD; Borann Sar, MD, PhD; Praphan Phanuphak, MD, PhD; Nipat Teeratakulpisarn, MD; Nittaya Phanuphak, MD; Nguyen Huy Dung, MD; Hoang Thi Quy, MD; Le Hung Thai, MD; Jay K. Varma, MD, Southeast Asia: An Algorithm for Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnosis in People with HIV, New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 362; No. 8: P. 707-716 (02.25.10) - Friday, March 19, 2010 |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: No conflicts of interest were delacred. | |
| Application date: | May 15, 2013 |
| Last updated: | June 6, 2013 |