More than 200 people among doctors, biologists,
laboratory technicians and Mozambican university students have taken part
into the Conference on the links between molecular biology and modern
medicine, which has taken place on February 18th at Maputo Central Hospital.
The conference was organised by some specialist doctors from the University
of Pisa who have come to Mozambique in order to collaborate with the
Community's program to combat AIDS.
The conference has pointed out the importance of the development of the
molecular biology laboratories in the Country (the first two, in Maputo and
Beira, were set up within this project and a third one is being built). The
laboratories, in fact, are indispensable for monitoring the antiretroviral
therapy and for the diagnosis of other pathologies connected to AIDS.
This initiative is part of the program to combat AIDS. Its aim is to promote
the scientific knowledge of the Mozambique operators, and therefore to help
raise the sanitary standards of the Country. The conference had a relevant
echo in the media. The interest of the doctors and sanitary operators was
high too. The Direction of the Central Hospital in Maputo has asked to go on
in the profitable cooperation on these issues with the Community of
Sant'Egidio and the University of Pisa.
One of the main aims of these meetings is the
training of some professional figures which will be necessary for the
implementation of the programme to combat AIDS, such as pediatricians,
gynecologists, biologists, pharmacists and laboratory technicians. In this
occasion is has also been possible to inform regarding the important results
of the programme, results which have also been presented during the
Conference on Retrovirus which had taken place in Boston last week.
During the month of February the number of patients being treated, who are
home assisted, has greatly increased. This is one characteristic of the
Community's programme to combat AIDS which represents a particularly useful
instrument both to substain the frailest patients and to ensure the
compliance, which means the respect of the protocols of care also for the
most debilitated people, who cannot turn to the sanitary structures.
ANSA:
Boston, 13/2/2003
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