Lesley Odendal

About Lesley Odendal

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF
Website: http://www.msf.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Switzerland About: Les Médecins Sans Frontières apportent leur secours aux populations en détresse, aux victimes de catastrophes d'origine naturelle ou humaine, de situation de belligérance, sans aucune discrimination de race, religion, philosophique ou politique. Oeuvrant dans la neutralité et en toute impartialité, les Médecins Sans Frontières revendiquent, au nom de l'éthique médicale universelle et du droit à l'assistance humanitaire, la liberté pleine et entière de l'exercice de leur fonction. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. In countries where health structures are insufficient or even non-existant, MSF collaborates with authorities such as the Ministry of Health to provide assistance. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programmes and water and sanitation projects. MSF also works in remote health care centres, slum areas and provides training of local personnel. All this is done with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels.

Recent Contributions

Lesley Odendal started a discussion "request for assistance" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear all It's Lesley Odendal, the MSF IC coordinator at the community based DR TB Project. I forward this email of behalf of my colleagues. MSF-Belgium wants to go for TLA in Malawi (a faster and cheaper technique for TB culture) and we have a new building that we can use as the lab. I just would like to ask you from your point of view what would be the minimal requirements for a TB ...
Lesley Odendal replied to "Looking for case reports on TB infection control efforts" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Anders Here is link to the MSF Khayelitsha experience in Health Facilities. It was a poster presented at the IAS 2009 conference http://www.msf.org.za/2009-aids/abstracts.html Hope that assists Regards Lesley
Lesley Odendal replied to "request for assistance" in the TB Infection Control community.

Dear Paul and everyone thanks so much for all the input. As I am not working on this project directly, I am ccing in my colleague Emmanuel who sent me the request. I trust he will be in touch later today many thanks Lesley
Lesley Odendal started a discussion "Mines" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

Dear Mona Here is an article I wrote on this matter. http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/7672C784-EDDF-489E-BC1F-D78B02D41C64.asp There are some references at the end that may be useful or you could get in touch with ARASA directly Many thanks Lesley Odendal AIDSmap

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