Blog: MID-BCC Field Observations

July 23, 2012-

This blog is the second part of the earlier post, MID-BCC in Cambodia: Training the Frontlines on Risk Communication.

Cecile Lantican, MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to train eight members of the national rapid response team on risk communication from June 20-21. The participants of the national training will train provincial and district team members to enhance Cambodia's capacity to repond effectively to a H5N1 outbreak.

With support from the USAID MID-BCC project, after the TOT in Phnom Penh, the eight national trainers from the Communicable Disease Control Department of Ministry of Health, National Veterinary Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Cambodian Red Cross planned the cascade training. The main purpose of the plan was to train provincial and district agricultural staff, veterinarians, hospital health staff, private clinicians, pharmacists and pharmacy clerks, and village volunteers from four provinces – Kampong Speu, Kampot, Battambang, and Bantay Mencheay. More...

July 2, 2012-

Cecile Lantican, MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to train eight members of the national rapid response team on risk communication from June 20-21. The participants of the national training will train provincial and district team members to enhance Cambodia's capacity to repond effectively to a H5N1 outbreak.

“Avian influenza is still a threat to the health of Cambodians,” said HE Mam Bun Heng, Minister of Health in a joint press release on 28 May 2012 between the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

This joint statement declared the country’s 21st human death from the H5N1 virus. This case was the third person who died this year in Cambodia. More...

June 5, 2012-

Cecile Lantican, Ph.D., MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, supported a teacher training on the Lao government's Guidelines on Prevention of Infectious Diseases in School in Luang Prabang May 21-23. The workshop was attended by 32 teachers, school administrators and health care workers.

In our past community-based activities in Lao PDR, we learned that the village teacher as a community leader is at the center of community development activities among village people. The village teacher is able to motivate people and earns respect in the community. More...

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