AFRICA/ANGOLA - Cholera, TB, HIV, local and national medical training

Thursday, 27 July 2006

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fifty years of history and experience in Africa: a sound basis for planning programmes to help the poorest of the poor. Ongoing cooperation between CUAMM Doctors with Africa and the local health system to help improve the national health system and service.
Not only Cholera but also TB, HIV and local and national medical training. In fact since 2000 CUAMM in Angola has been fighting TB, since 2003 with an Angolan foreign ministry programme to help reorganise the provincial programme of TB control in the provinces of Uige and Luanda. In the capital alone there are 26 centres for treatment of TB and 14 medical laboratories.
In 2005 just over 35,000 cases were registered, of which 16,026 proved positive to the test for TB.
The goal now is to apply DOT Directly Observed Therapy, started by the World Health Organisation, in 11 of Angola’s 18 provinces. Since 2005 efforts to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS has been intensified. (AP ) (27/07/2006 Agenzia Fides; Righe:19; Parole:201)


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