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Cuban Health Cooperation Appreciated by Africa.

CUBA, October 27, 2010.-  Cuba’s cooperation in the field of health, particularly to fight malaria, has increased in Africa.

The Public Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Victor Makwenge Kaput, recently met with a team of specialists from the Caribbean island’s Labiofam Company.

These experts will carry out a pilot study in a commune in Kinshasa, the capital, as part of a program to fight that disease.

The Minister said, "Malaria is the main cause of the high mother-child immortality rate in the country, as well as other social ills like the high level of labor absenteeism registered.”

The study will be carried out in the community of Kimbaseke, with a population of a little over one million people.

In related news, the Daily Graphic, Ghana’s main newspaper, announced that 80 new Cuban professionals will arrive there over the next few months to join the Medical Brigade in 10 regions of the country.

The newspaper reported that the Brigade is considering the establishment of a factory to make a product for the biological control of larvae in Ghana and another one in Nigeria to speed up the elimination of malaria.

Labiofam and the Tanzanian government have also set up new cooperation projects to combat malaria that use Griselesf and Bactivec, two products obtained by Labiofam to control vectors, favor the reduction of mortality in people suffering from dengue, malaria and other transmissible diseases on the African continent. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

 

 

 

 

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