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03-30-2012, 03:30 PM
According to the director of the Center for the Control of Tropical Diseases at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Jose Manuel Puello, the Dominican Republic has succeeded in reducing the number of cases of malaria by 35% over the last year.
Addressing a bi-national meeting taking place today, Friday, 30 March, with medical associations and specialists in charge of diseases in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, he said that Haiti and the Dominican Republic had been working together since 2009 to reduce the occurrence of various diseases, including malaria.
He said that the bi-national program has the support and funding from the Carter Center, directed by the former President of the US, Jimmy Carter, together with support from the Pan-American Health Organization and the American Centre of Disease Control based in Atlanta. The three-year old program seeks to accelerate the elimination of two mosquito-borne infections - malaria and lymphatic filariasis - from Hispaniola, the last reservoir of these devastating diseases in the Caribbean.
www.cartercenter.org/countries/dominican-republic-health.html (http://www.cartercenter.org/countries/dominican-republic-health.html)
www.noticiassin.com/2012/03/rd-y-haiti-evaluan-acciones-contra-malaria-y-filariasis-linfatica/ (http://www.noticiassin.com/2012/03/rd-y-haiti-evaluan-acciones-contra-malaria-y-filariasis-linfatica/)
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Addressing a bi-national meeting taking place today, Friday, 30 March, with medical associations and specialists in charge of diseases in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, he said that Haiti and the Dominican Republic had been working together since 2009 to reduce the occurrence of various diseases, including malaria.
He said that the bi-national program has the support and funding from the Carter Center, directed by the former President of the US, Jimmy Carter, together with support from the Pan-American Health Organization and the American Centre of Disease Control based in Atlanta. The three-year old program seeks to accelerate the elimination of two mosquito-borne infections - malaria and lymphatic filariasis - from Hispaniola, the last reservoir of these devastating diseases in the Caribbean.
www.cartercenter.org/countries/dominican-republic-health.html (http://www.cartercenter.org/countries/dominican-republic-health.html)
www.noticiassin.com/2012/03/rd-y-haiti-evaluan-acciones-contra-malaria-y-filariasis-linfatica/ (http://www.noticiassin.com/2012/03/rd-y-haiti-evaluan-acciones-contra-malaria-y-filariasis-linfatica/)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)