학술논문
Decrease the number of patients lost to follow-up in the monitoring of PLHIV in cross-border areas between The Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau
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Conference
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Source
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. :1-6
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Language
English
Abstract
The fight against AIDS in West Africa is a big challenge of public health. The main difficulties are related to the availability of antiretrovirals (AVR) and mainly to the observance of the treatment. In the cross-borderland areas of the Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau, these difficulties of the observance of the treatment are amplified by the vulnerability, the high mobility of the populations and the problems of communication between the actors of the monitoring of PLHIV who speak three different languages. That's what makes difficult the fight against AIDS in those areas and justify the phenomenon of the patients lost to follow-up, which is a great indicator for the following of the People Living with HIV-virus (PLHIV). This paper presents the decrease of the number of patients lost to follow-up in the monitoring of the PLHIV in the cross-borderland areas of the Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau by a multilingual semantic web platform of reference, counter reference and auto reference.