Current project

2012 - Capacity Building for Argentina’s Ostomy Association and Ostomy Law Development

Goal → Enabling AADO to become a more effective advocate for ostomates in Argentina by strengthening its internal capacity and organization. The goals are to improve the capacity of AADO to represent ostomates, empower AADO in building awareness among relevant government agencies and develop a new ostomy reimbursement law in Argentina.

Partners: Argentina's Ostomy Association (AADO) and OPEN group (Consulting)

Current project

2014 - Creating an IC Protocol

Goal → Gather Brazil's top urologists to formulate an IC protocol on how to treat Spinal Cord Injured, Spina Bifida and Multiple Sclerosis patients with urinary retention. This document will be presented to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The document shall draw on the guidelines that Access to Healthcare supported previously.

Partner: The Brazilian Society of Urology (BSU)

Completed projects

2012 - Incontinence Care Awareness and Patient Pathway Project

Goal → Build patient and practitioner awareness of coated intermittent catheters (CIC) and creating a documented ‘gold standard’ patient pathway. The main goal is to raise the standards of care through CIC guidelines in São Paolo and selected municipalities.

Partner: The Brazilian ET Society

Results → Guidelines successfully launched for 500 local nurses at the Stomatherapist Nurse Brazilian Congress.

2012 - CIC Guidelines Project

Goal → Produce updated national guidelines for continence care with a focus on shifting the standard of care in Brazil from indwelling to coated intermittent catheters (CIC).

Partner: Brazilian Society of Urology

Results → Changing the mindset towards coated intermittent catheters through through well-recieved guidelines provided to more than 500 urologists from 26 different municipalities.

Current projects

2014 - Wound Care Centres of Excellence

Goal → The primary objectives of the project is to strengthen treatment and healing of complicated wounds in hospitals in China. This will be achieved through the establishment of multiple Centres of Excellence. Initially, the project will support the opening of the first Centre of Excellence in Beijing.

Partner: Peking University First Hospital 

2010 - Chronic Wound Care Training Program

Goal → Large-scale capacity building in diabetic wound treatment. The main goal is to conduct 60 workshops in 15 hospitals across China training 3600 doctors with the long-term objective of reducing foot amputations.

Partner: The Key Research Laboratory of the Wound Repair and Regeneration

Results → Successful completion of over 10 workshops and training of over 1000 healthcare professionals

Completed projects

2012 - Western Provinces and Wound Care Education “Go West” Project

Goal → Training of healthcare professionals in China’s western provinces in cooperation with Chinese Ministry of Health. The main goal is to provide new and improved training to medical professionals specializing in ostomy care and wound care.

Partner: Beijing Health Human Resource Training Center

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2012 - Shanghai Community Wound Care Project

Goal → To build a community-based wound care model in Shanghai municipality through partnerships and training of healthcare professionals. The project will build this model through the creation of new partnerships among hospitals and community-based clinics, seminars and training events. The ultimate goal is to educate 200 doctors and nurses.

Partner: 9th People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai

2011 - Clean Intermittent Catheterization Patient Awareness

Goal → Promoting awareness and building professional capacity for better catheterization with the aim of training 340 doctors and nurses across hospitals and educating 4800 patients.

Partner: Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine

2009 - General Ostomy Care Guidelines

Goal → Create and advocate for clinical guidelines for better national ostomy care. The goals are to have multi-stakeholder development of guidelines, testing in key hospitals across China, and finally advocating for government recognition.

Partner: China Nursing Association

Results → Succesful creation of ostomy care guidelines

2009 - Establishment of 'Sunshine Clubs'

Goal → Awareness building for people with an ostomy with the aim of creating stoma clubs in three major Chinese cities and involve nurses and ostomy patients in hospitals.

Partner: International Ostomy Association

Results → Successful creation of 'Sunshine Clubs' for ostomates across China to connect and spread awareness to policy makers in order to improve ostomy care

Completed projects

2010 - India Workshop on Comprehensive Management of SCI

Current projects

2013 - Expansion of the Spinal Cord Injury Management E-learning Resource

Goal → To further develop elearnSCI.org, its roll-out and dissemination by translating the resource into Spanish, Russian and Portuguese. Additional goals are to create SCI workshops in South America and Asia.

Partners: International Spinal Cord Network (ISCoS), Asian Spinal Cord Network (ASCoN), Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC), Livability Ireland, Lifetime Care and Support Scheme

Completed projects:

2012 - Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Management E-learning Resource

Goal → Large-scale educational program serving to improve professional treatment and understanding of spinal cord injuries through web-based tools (elearnSCI.org).

Partners: International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS), Asian Spinal Cord Network (ASCoN), Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC), Livability Ireland, Lifetime Care and Support Scheme

Results → Successful creation of ElearnSCI.org.  

Current projects

2013 - Improving Ostomy Care in Mexico

Goal → Influence the Mexican healthcare system to improve the level of care given to current and future ostomates in Mexico through three pathways:
1. The creation of a national ostomy patient association to help ostomates get organized and give them a voice.
2. Building awareness and advocacy together with the Mexican Congress.
3. Update the clinical guidelines for ostomy care that were created in 2010. This step is to ensure the above initiatives reflect the best possible standards of care.

Partners Mexican Association for Comprehensive Care and Wound Healing (AMCICHAC: 'Asociación Méxicana para el Cuidado Integral y Cicatrización de Heridas A.C')  and Fleishmann Hillard (Public Affairs consultancy firm)

Completed projects

2010 - Ostomy Care Clinical Guidelines

Goal → Advocacy in order to create and disseminate stoma care guidelines to professionals and decisions makers. Creation of the guidelines must be made in collaboration with professionals who can test the guidelines' applicability and promote them to a national policy level.

Partners Mexican Association for Comprehensive Care and Wound Healing (AMCICHAC: 'Asociación Méxicana para el Cuidado Integral y Cicatrización de Heridas A.C') and Fleishmann Hillard (Public Affairs consultancy firm)

Results → Successful creation of ostomy care clinical guidelines

2009 - Community Workshops and Scholarships

Goal → Master’s level education of a small team of nurses to build capacity across six Mexican regions as well as lower level education through workshops/seminars to a broader segment of healthcare users and professionals. The aim is to have 330 users and professionals participating in community workshops on stoma conditions and care.

Partners Universidad Panamericana (Nursing School) 

Results →  8 students graduated with an ET Master and seminar/workshop presentations reached 765 people across 6 different cities. The 6 regions covered by the project comprise 32% (in 2010) of national ostomy surgeries. 1/3 of patients in these areas have been to a seminar with one of the students and have learned more about ostomy treatment.

Current project

2014 - Promoting Intermittent Catheterization in Poland

 Goal → This project can be seen as a sequel to the previous Polish Access to Healthcare project in Poland. The core objective of the project is to promote and adoption of new guidelines for urinary incontinence that embrace HCIC as a new and improved standard of care. 

Partners: Polish Society of Urology 

Completed project

2013 - Promoting Intermittent Catheterization in Poland

Goal → The project seeks to raise standards of care for Polish patients with urinary incontinence through the creation and acceptance of a new standard embracing hydrophilic coated intermittent catheters (HCIC) as the new gold standard for treatment of urinary incontinence in Poland.

Partners: Polish Society of Urology and Polish Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Completed projects

2012 - South Africa Continence Care Awareness and Reimbursement – and Investigation

Goal → Provide training for healthcare professionals in order to build incontinence care awareness. Furthermore, the project seeks to create awareness among South African healthcare professionals on intermittent catheterization benefits for spinal cord injured patients. Finally, the project seeks to get in depth understanding of how new incontinence care standards can be covered within South Africa’s existing healthcare financing and reimbursement structures.

Partner: Quad Para Association of South Africa (leading association for patients with spinal chord injuries South Africa)

2008 - South Africa Workshop of Comprehensive Management of Spinal Cord Injury

Goal → 3 day training course with the goal of training 100 doctors and nurses in spinal cord injury management as part of the annual ISCoS conference.

Partner ISCoS (International Spinal Cord Association)

Results → Succesful roll-out of a three-day SCI course.