Network Publishes French Edition of Clinical Handbook on PEN-Plus
Dr. Neil Gupta, the NCDI Poverty Network’s senior director of policy, and Dr. Aimée Lulebo, a member of the Network’s Steering Committee, spent time together at the first International Conference on PEN-Plus in Africa in April 2024. Dr. Lulebo, an associate professor at the University of Kinshasa School of Public Health, is also the commissioner and coordinator of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s NCDI Poverty Commission. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of several francophone countries that have initiated PEN-Plus.
The NCDI Poverty Network has published a French edition of PEN-Plus Clinical Tools and Programmatic Standards, which serves as a reference for technical partners both to plan a PEN-Plus program and to assess and refine existing PEN-Plus clinics.
The French edition of the handbook, Outils Cliniques et Standards du Programme PEN-Plus, defines the diagnostic, treatment, and patient support services that compose PEN-Plus. As with its English-edition counterpart, the handbook will change and adapt as PEN-Plus systems strengthen and clinics achieve higher levels of care and standards.
Several francophone countries—including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—have already initiated PEN-Plus, with additional francophone nations expressing interest.
Outils Cliniques et Standards du Programme PEN-Plus is available as both a PDF download and a flipbook.