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Cuba Increases Cooperation with Mozambique

CUBA, May 6, 2008. Cuba’s solidarity work in the field of public health is increasing in Mozambique where specialists from the Caribbean nation will help create a Research Center for Transmissible Diseases.

Sources of the Mozambican Ministry of Sciences and Technology highlighted the importance of this new action of the Cuban collaborators in this African country as part of recent bilateral agreements.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, Cuban Dr. Lazara Rojas, who is the chief consultant of the project, spoke of the project during a master lecture in which she explained Cuba’s experiences in fighting transmissible diseases.

Rojas recalled that Cuba already eradicated diseases such as malaria, poliomyelitis, measles, and others that are still endemic in Mozambique.

The presence of this specialist in Mozambique is part of accords signed recently by the two countries during a visit to Havana of President Armando Guebuza.(Cubaminrex- ACN)