Since 2006, training in schools
Promoting the proper use of medicines is an essential step, which is particularly meaningful when it is aimed at the younger generation. School-age children become real relays of information and risk prevention, for themselves and for those around them, through family and community structures. The result of a collaboration between national and international experts in the field of health and the technical expertise of the World Francophone Digital University (UNFM), the tutorial and website dedicated to the Programme of Education for the Proper Use of Medicines (BUM) offers a range of advantages for large-scale awareness-raising on a national and global level. This digital programme can be accessed with or without an internet connection and is compatible with most computer terminals (computers, tablets, phones, etc.)

 

Programme History

After CAMEROON (Yaounde) in (2006-2008), the education programme for the proper use of medicines was implemented in BURKINA FASO 2008-2010, in GUINEA CONAKRY in 2012, and in NIGER in 2015 for primary school children.
The results obtained were 485 teachers and school directors trained, 120,000 children supervised, 93,000 booklets distributed free of charge to children, 34,500 posters put up in schools and distributed free of charge to children, 3,675 "trainers' booklets" distributed to supervisors and adults.

10 years after the implementation of the BUM, despite the satisfactory results recorded, it is clear that the danger remains. The combined efforts of states and private sector initiatives to reduce or even eliminate the consumption of counterfeit/falsified medicines or medicines from unapproved circuits are proving insufficient.

AFRICAN SYNERGY and "Les Entreprises du Médicament" therefore agree to give themselves the means to widen their target in order to intensify awareness through the digitisation of the Education for the Best Use of Medicines (BUM) programme for secondary school students.

A tutorial and a website dedicated to the BUM programme have been designed for this purpose. Cameroon hosted for the first time the official launching ceremony of the digital version of the programme (2017, Yaounde and 2019, Douala). Benin was the fifth country to implement the programme (2017).