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Open International Tender Notice
Tender: Supply of 600,000 Long Lasting Insecticide Impregnated Nets
Contracting Authority: HealthNet TPO, Afghanistan
Grant: GFATM/HealthNet TPO, Afghanistan as Principal Recipient
Grant Title: Strengthening and scaling up the RBM efforts in Afghanistan
Closing Date: Thursday 15-01-09 17:00 hours Kabul Time.

A new website on the Mental Health Psychosocial Support Network
A new website of the Mental Health Psychosocial Support Network was launched in October 2008. It is an interactive website and membership is free. So do post relevant documents that you wish to share with others on this website: www.psychosocialnetwork.net

Press Release 08 13 08 Mental Health Problems (JAMA)
In Nepal, former child soldiers display greater severity of mental health problems, such as symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, compared with children who were not forced into military service, according to a study in the August 13 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.

Press release 08 12 08 School based mental health (JAMA)
A school-based intervention for children in communities affected by political violence in Indonesia reduced post-traumatic stress symptoms and helped maintain hope, but did not reduce traumatic stress-related symptoms, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms or functional impairment, according to a study in the August 13 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.

Seminar: Mental Health in Fragile States
On 8 and 9 september HealthNet TPO and the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are organizing a two-day seminar on 'mental health in fragile states. "

Reports of the recent HNTPO meeting and conference
In january 2008 HealthNet TPO Burundi organized a regional conference on mental health in cooperation with the Burundian Ministry of Public Health. In the same week HealthNet TPO also organized a regional meeting with the psychosocial projects of HealthNet TPO in Africa

Meeting on Community Mental Health in the African Region
Three staff of the mental health and psychosocial programme of HealthNet TPO in Sudan participated in a three-day conference of the Global Forum for Community Mental Health (GFCMH) held in Entebbe, Uganda.

Conference report mental health Burundi 2008
From 24th to 25th January 2008, the Ministry of Public Health in Burundi, together with HealthNet TPO held a regional conference on mental health and psychosocial support. This conference was a follow up of another conference on mental health that took place in Burundi in July 2006. Here you will find the conference report.

HN TPO staff unharmed after attack on PLAN office Pakistan
Armed men invaded the office of the British relief organization Plan in Mansehra (Pakistan) on Monday 25 February. During the attack, three staff members were killed and ten injured, of whom one is still in peril of death. HealthNet TPO’s office is in the direct neighborhood of the PLAN building. No HealthNet TPO staff members got injured during the assault.

Clinical Mentoring in a post-conflict environment
Improving access to HIV testing in the Sanitary District of Kibuye, Burundi.
This article is written by Ursula Harrisson who volunteered with the International Centre for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA) and HealthNet TPO.

Press release WHO Guidelines Mental Health
As now of psychosocial care must be higher on the development agenda in wars and calamity areas. That finds the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations and 27 international developing organizations. Today they present new directives for the psychosocial care in wars and calamity areas.

HealthNet hostages released
July 8, 2007: It is with great pleasure that we can inform you that the two abducted staff members of HealthNet TPO in Koghiani are released and safe.

Abduction health workers Khogiani Afghanistan
Wednesday June 13 two staff members of HealthNet TPO have been abducted in the Khogiani district in the Nangahar Province.

HealthNet TPO awarded for psychosocial programme Burundi
HealthNet TPO has been awarded by the government of Burundi for the psychosocial and mental health services to vulnerable groups suffering form post-traumatic disorders caused by emotional and psychological problems, socio-economic problems, displacements and refugee conditions.

Destroying Poppies Counterproductive in Uruzgan
Dutch support to the Afghan Eradication Force (EAF) in destroying poppies in Uruzgan is a mistake. The two conditions the Netherlands had placed on its co-operation saving the small opium farmers and a proportional ‘targeting' of different tribes are practically unattainable.

Governor visits HealthNet TPO office in South-Sudan
On January 16th the Governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal State (WBGS), Mark Nyipoch, visited the HealthNet TPO compound in Mapel, South-Sudan.

News from Burundi
HealthNet TPO Burundi organizes mental health conference HealthNet TPO Burundi sponsored ‘peace torch'-project.
Visit of the High Commissioner for Refugees.
Fight against Sexual Violence

Statement Dutch NGOs on the PRT in Uruzgan
In Afghanistan civilians and aid workers are ever more frequently the victims of the resurging violence. Schools and health clinics, for instance, are attacked with the result that teaching and medical staff can no longer do their job.

Uruzgan - No Safety without Rehabilitation
The Dutch parliament decided in February that it would send a peacekeeping force to Uruzgan to help the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. HealthNet TPO has been asked to assist the rehabilitation of Uruzgan, as we have work experience in this region.

NY Times Cambodia article
January 8, 2006 : Cambodia Tries Nonprofit Path to Health Care By CELIA W. DUGGER REAP, Cambodia - Sovan Sna had been in labor all night long. By the 16th hour of contractions, she was in trouble. The baby, her first, was not coming out. And she was so exhausted and in such pain she could barely speak.

One year after the tsunami
It's now one year after the tsunami and over 750 mental health workers have been trained in the training center supported by Eureko and HealthNet TPO, a Dutch humanitarian aid organization.

Pakistan Trauma
HealthNet TPO is providing mental health care to the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan with support from PLAN and insurance group Eureko. Responding to the urgent request of the World Health Organization (WHO) for structural mental health assistance we are supporting local organizations to provide psychosocial care in the devastated areas.