Header: Group picture of the CHU-YO team (Burkina Faso), the CNHU-PPC and CNHU-HKM team (Benin) and the ITM team (Belgium) at the end of the practical training in Benin
In May 2025, the ITM SIMBLE team visited Centre national hospitalier et universitaire Hubert Koutoukou Maga (CNHU-HKM) in Cotonou and Boko Hospital in Benin for the last time! Recruitment was completed after a period of almost two years: CNHU-HKM enrolled 778 participants and Boko Hospital enrolled 414 participants with symptoms of bloodstream infections since June…
A team of social scientists from ITM, along with two locally hired researchers, began the first phase of data collection in Cotonou, Benin on March 4th, 2024. Using an ethnographic approach, the researchers immersed themselves in the CNHU-HKM to familiarise themselves with the setting and the people where the simplified blood culture system under investigation…